
Diego Fernando MaciasSouth Colombian University | USCO · Faculty of Education
Diego Fernando Macias
Ph. D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
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Introduction
Diego Fernando Macías currently works for the College of Education at Universidad Surcolombiana. Diego does research on language teacher education and development including issues related to classroom management and language teaching methods. His most recent publication is 'Classroom Management in Foreign Language Education: An Exploratory Review.'
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April 2004 - January 2016
April 2004 - present
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Publications (15)
This article aims to encourage reflection on an alternative in the education and training of English language teachers in Colombia. The author claims that a balance should be promoted between micro and macro approaches to English language teacher education so as to provide teachers with opportunities for the training of discrete teaching classroom...
Beginning teachers are often left on their own to endure life at school perhaps as a result of the assumption that learning to teach comes from the experience of teaching, or that the theoretical knowledge gained in teacher education programs is sufficient to deal with such an endeavor. This narrative study investigated student teachers’ retrospect...
The current review offers an analysis of the prevailing literature on teacher learning in language teaching from an international perspective. We initially revisit several contributions from a general education perspective. Then, we focus on three dominant approaches, identified through the literature, to understand teacher learning from a language...
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A pesar de que es ampliamente aceptado que la identidad del docente se transforma como resultado de su participación en una comunidad docente, poca investigación se ha llevado a cabo con docentes en formación (Clarke, 2008). Esta investigación narrativa tuvo como objetivo comprender cómo los estudiantes-practicantes construyeron su identida...
This article offers a review of 25 empirical studies to identify the areas and findings of professional development initiatives for in-service English teachers in Colombia. The reviewed studies suggest that language teacher professional development has focused on six major areas: language proficiency, research skills and reflective practice, teache...
This review examines studies in the area of classroom management in foreign language education. It is organized into three large areas: The first area focuses on the distinctive characteristics of foreign language instruction that are more likely to impact classroom management in foreign language classes. The second area provides a description of c...
Even though assessment constitutes an essential component of any educational process, pre-service and in-service teachers at large seem to ignore its multiple implications and manifestations. Assessment continues to be regarded mainly as the summative evaluation which informs teachers of students´ success or failure in their learning process based...
p>This qualitative descriptive study aimed to ascertain the extent to which classroom management constituted a problem among pre-service foreign language teachers in a teacher education program at a public university in Colombia. The study also sought to identify classroom management challenges, the approaches to confronting them, and the alternati...
This project set out to investigate the extent to which the sources of English as a foreign language teachers’ pedagogical knowledge are acknowledged and addressed in a teacher education program in a public university in Colombia. It involved the participation of teacher educators and novice teachers as well as the analysis of documents. This resea...
The present article seeks to encourage reflection on the meaning and potential of focus on form instruction as an alternative to improve the foreign language learning and teaching process of young and adult learners in Colombia. Initially, the concept and types of focus on form instruction are introduced, a brief rationale follows and findings from...
This article aims to explore the characteristics of English as a lingua franca (ELF) as an alternative to English Language Teaching (ELT) in Colombia. It focuses initially on the role played by English in the country and on what the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) model has offered the teaching of English. This is followed by considerations reg...
This article explores the dimensions of form, meaning and use from the perspective of the English passive voice in two ELT coursebooks. It is claimed that each dimension is aimed to fulfill a specific function in language teaching. Thus, to overlook any of them would be to deprive learners of an important aspect of language and so render them ill-e...
El presente estudio investigativo tuvo como propósito la caracterización de las prácticas pedagógicas
utilizadas por los profesores de inglés de los cursos de Lengua Extranjera Institucional en la Universidad Surcolombiana. Para efectos de identificar las prácticas pedagógicas más frecuentes, se acudió a la utilización de un diseño descriptivo. Se...
This article reports the findings of an action research study aimed at helping advanced
English students refine their academic writing skills. The study was carried out with undergraduate students of the Foreign Language Teaching Program (English) at
Universidad Surcolombiana. The methods used included process writing — outlining,
revising, and ed...
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Question (1)
I have come accross lots of sources on the topic of narrative inquiry understood as a research methodology while others have focused on narrative (or story) as a phenomenon. I am wondering if a contrast between these two perspectives has been addressed in the literature.