Teenagers' thoughts about their cultural identity through english writing

Abstract

This is a project to comprehend and use English (as a Foreign Language) as a means to communicate ideas and thoughts about students’ cultural identity. This paper reports on the results of this project that emerged from our interest to build students’ cultural identity and all that it implies, using writing and more specific Blogs, as a tool to interact and share these ideas. We carried out our pedagogical intervention as teaching practices required completing the course of study in EFL. During these teaching practices, we could observe the process of foreign language learning in our students. We also became aware of their learning difficulties when they began to write and more important, we realize a lack of cultural knowledge in ours students. The most common feature was their lack of motivation to begin to write since the fact students used to write about random topics that are not in the students’ context and interest.