Este estudio presenta el proceso de construcción y validación de un cuestionario de escala Likert que permite documentar la percepción docente sobre las reformas educativas que impulsan el aprendizaje del inglés en la educación pública, específicamente de aquellos profesores que, sin una formación disciplinaria, se ven forzados a enseñar este idioma en sus contextos educativos. Con base en referentes epistémicos del área de segundas lenguas, la percepción docente se conceptualizó con cuatro dimensiones: las opiniones, las creencias, la práctica pedagógica y las emociones. Los 28 ítems distribuidos en estas dimensiones fueron sometidos a análisis cualitativos y cuantitativos para determinar su validez y confiabilidad. En estos procesos participaron cuatro investigadores especialistas en la enseñanza de segundas lenguas y 82 docentes de escuelas secundarias del sureste mexicano. Los resultados indican que el cuestionario responde de manera satisfactoria a la validez de contenido, validez ecológica y los análisis de confiabilidad propios de los cuestionarios de escala Likert.

Educational reforms and educational policy changes have favored the learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in public education. Empirical research has examined how EFL specialist teachers in urban public schools perceive these changes or the extent to which they adopt a new curriculum. Nonetheless, the new EFL policies have also had an impact on rural schools where generalist teachers are forced to teach English along with other areas of the curriculum. In this context, little research has explored teachers’ perceptions and appropriation of ongoing curricular changes. The present study explored this issue among generalist rural secondary school teachers in the southeast of Mexico. To this end, an explanatory sequential mixed method was adopted with a sample of 216 generalist teachers. During the quantitative phase, the participants completed two Likert scale questionnaires. Then, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a sub-sample of participants who obtained high (n = 7) or low (n = 7) results in the perceptions and appropriation questionnaires. The statistical analyses showed a weak but positive correlation between perceptions and appropriation. The qualitative data provide some insights that explain the weakness of the correlation.

I think this preliminary manuscript is a good contribution. This topic is highly relevant and in this field is very useful to rural areas nowadays. I recommend expanding the literature review or empirical research based on some developed countries an...