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Este artículo reporta los resultados parciales de un proyecto de investigacióncuyo objetivo es interpretar la manera como los actores sociales en los programas de Licenciatura en Lenguas Extranjeras comprenden los sentidos de la educación. Por lo tanto, este artículo es un primer intento por entender que los programas de formación de docentes de in...
This book, which is intended for pre-service, novice, and in-service teachers and educators, looks at the key aspects that teachers, as material designers, should bear in mind when creating teaching/learning materials for EFL, thinking about the needs and the particularities of the population. This textbook is divided into twelve elements. The firs...
This article describes a pedagogical proposal based on theater as a safe space to develop productive skills in an EFL classroom. Thirty-six eleventh graders from a public school in Tunja participated in the theater sessions. In each session, we collected data through recordings, interviews, and field notes to understand the impact of the pedagogica...
En este artículo se presenta un análisis del estado inicial de la cuestión en relación con el concepto de interculturalidad —concepto clave en educación— en la formación de futuros maestros de idiomas, en cuatro países: España, México, Chile y Colombia. Primero se dan a conocer los elementos conceptuales básicos de interculturalidad, multiculturali...
There are several reasons why english language teachers may embark on the endeavor to develop teaching and learning materials for the EFL population in rural schools. This book presents some of those reasons by means of illustrating the fluctuating challenges and opooortunities while developing contextualized materials to enhance the speaking skill...
This book shows the paths student-teachers embark on the construction of their identies within the frame of a student-centered approach perspective. Understanding teacher identity construction suggests perceiving a broad and socially-driven dimension. In such a way , humansare contextual, political, and culturally situated to continually make sense...
La mayoría de profesores de inglés en Colombia no desean trabajar en colegios rurales debido a los desafíos que este tipo de contexto representa. El propósito de este artículo, que está basado en los resultados de investigaciones llevadas a cabo en Boyacá y Santander (Colombia) en relación con la enseñanza de inglés en zonas rurales, es mostrar alg...
Materials development is a field of study which has recently acquired significant importance in the Colombian context due to the fact that teachers, as materials developers, consider materials development as an area of knowledge that helps them to improve their teaching practices. However, the rationale, the gains as well as the challenges that dri...
Ok, Doctor. I am going to tell you the reason why I am here today. A couple of weeks ago I hung out with some girls. We went to have some beers in a bar. It was an ok bar and so was the music. The only bad thing that happened, apparently I mean, was the fact that I did not share the taxi ride after leaving. Well, one of the girls did not ride in th...
This article aims to share with teacher-educators a pedagogical proposal which we have applied in the past year. This investigation analyzes issues linked to critical pedagogy using movies connected to educational themes and readings based on critical pedagogy. We have used this study to generate class discussions in order to analyze educational to...
This article aims at sharing the results of a research project focused on guiding students in the use of different reading strategies: reading non- text information, skimming and scanning, using contextual reference, predicting, and using true/false cognates as a first step towards autonomous learning. The project was conducted at a Colombian unive...
Este artículo da cuenta de los resultados de un proyecto de investigación en pequeña escala desarrollado en una universidad pública de Colombia. Esta investigación buscó describir el tipo de reflexiones que seis estudiantes de inglés general I de un Instituto de Idiomas llevaban a cabo después de ser guiados en el uso de estrategias de aprendizaje...
