
Jermaine S. McdougaldUniversity of La Sabana · Departamento de Lenguas y Culturas Extranjeras
Jermaine S. Mcdougald
MA Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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Jermaine S. McDougald currently works at the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Universidad de La Sabana. Jermaine does research in CLIL, Teacher Education, Educational Technology and Language Education. He is currently working on Online university learning: Technologically mediated course design for contemporary tertiary learners along with Liliana Cuesta and Carl Anderson, where they are researching factors and conditions that would be essential for designing technologically mediated graduate courses that would meet the needs of contemporary learners.
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July 2012 - present
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an educational approach that combines linguistic and subject-based learning to develop the necessary competencies for success in a globalized world. A mixed-method study researched how CLIL is implemented in (10) K-11 schools in Bogota, Colombia, collecting data from 121 in-service teachers in priv...
This mixed-methods study investigated in-service teachers' perceptions and knowledge about content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and bilingual education. Data were collected using surveys, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews from 26 in-service teachers in Valledupar, Colombia, before and after their participation in an online te...
El estudio exploró la percepción de estudiantes colombianos de pregrado respecto al uso de Facebook como una herramienta de comunicación e interacción en el salón de clase. Los hallazgos sugieren que Facebook en el salón de clase es divertido, práctico y como tal, Facebook es una herramienta de comunicación efectiva que fomenta la interacción y
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Online education has continued to increase at a rapid rate over the past decades, offering diverse learning programs at all levels of education. As a result, online programs continue to shift and change according to the demands of society. However, the demands for qualified online instructors (OI) are not increasing at the same rate and are not pro...
Nowadays, the teaching and learning process continues to pose new
challenges embedded in the era in which we are living, where the need
to use more than one language is still a priority. However, being educated in other languages, additional to L1 has historically taken place since human beings have communicated, paving way for “new linguistic worl...
Creación de aulas “glocales” para promover la comunicación
Criação de salas de aula “glocais” para promover a comunicação
With the globalization of human activities, it has become gradually more important to improve one’s ability to communicate in an additional language. Today, everyone needs to be able to successfully operate in an increasingly gl...
Since 2013, practices concerning the scaffolding of the thesis writing process have been constantly renewed in the online Master´s program in ELT at our university. The graduate program caters to predominately Spanish speakers where English is the L2 at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia). All the students have a B2 language level certified by TOEF...
This presentation reports on a 2-year project to better understand perceptions of, attitudes towards, and practices of plurilingual rhetoric communication in Colombia and, consequently, to test new strategies to promote better development for rhetorical communicative competencies through multiple languages. In an increasingly globalized and interco...
With respect to the study’s specific examination of the beliefs and practices of student teachers in Colombia concerning self-regulation and self-regulated learning, it seems clear that they are aware of these concepts. However, it remains difficult to say whether there is much consistency in how they understand them, let alone how well any theory...
Self-regulation and a capacity for self-regulated learning (SRL) are widely recognized in educational research literature as critical for not only contemporary learners but also for teachers. Yet the emphasis placed on instilling skills and strategies for SRL in learners often ignores a more fundamental problem of teachers who are not only unprepar...
Our world is constantly changing; hence, the importance of being able to respond to its demands is of utmost importance. There is an enormous need to innovate and create, as well as apply new and/or different ways of doing things in every aspect of life, including education, which has evolved over the years and will continue doing so for years to c...
With the changing demands of more interconnected and knowledge driven global dynamics, language teaching and language teacher-training has placed an increased focus on the development of lifelong learning skills, including those associated with self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learners are metacognitively, motivationally and behaviorally act...
An editorial accompanying LACLIL Vol. 8 No. 2 (2015), this paper reviews the twined history of the journal and the Biennial CLIL Symposia as hubs for the intersection of research and practice in global and local contexts. There is a brief review of the papers in LACLIL Vol. 8 No. 2, representing both proceedings from the 5th Biennial CLIL Symposium...
This paper considers the potential benefits and challenges of implementing CLIL (content and language integrated learning) for young learners in light of the existing research. We highlight the relative lack of attention that has so far been directed towards CLIL in pre-secondary levels, but suggest particular avenues that might be suitable for CLI...
This paper is a preliminary report on the “CLIL State of the Art” project in Colombia, drawing on data collected
from 140 teachers’ regarding their attitudes toward, perceptions of, and experiences with CLIL (content and language integrated learning). The term CLIL is used here to refer to teaching contexts in which a foreign language (in these cas...
El presente artículo da un vistazo a la importancia de la introducción de un enfoque de Contenido de Aprendizaje Integrado de Lengua (AICLE) en el sistema general de educación de Colombia como resultado de la creciente necesidad de que los estudiantes desarrollen competencias en inglés. Además da una mirada a la situación actual de la enseñanza de...
Welcome to Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning (LACLIL). This issue presents a variety of research endeavors on how content and language are being treated at different levels of education. Nowadays, the progression of foreign language teaching and each of its methods and approaches are taking...
This study reports on the impact of the Masters in english language Teaching with an emphasis on Autonomous learning environments
from the Universidad de la Sabana. The report highlights how graduates from 12 cities from 9 departments throughout Colombia are using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for english language learning in or...
Results are presented from a study conducted online with a population of students of an English teacher education program. The study inquired into the role that peer feedback played in the development or maintenance of coherence in non-fictional narrative blog writing. Participant students produced narrative blog entries and peer feedback, which we...
Welcome to Volume 6, Issue 2 of the Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning (LACLIL). This issue offers reflections on areas related to the integration of content and language in a variety of contexts— including Colombia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, and Iran—in which researchers provide us with opportunities to ref...
Results are presented from a study conducted online with a population of students of an English teacher education program. The study inquired into the role that peer feedback played in the development or maintenance of coherence in non-fictional narrative blog writing. Participant students produced narrative blog entries and peer feedback, which we...
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a teaching approach that is becoming increasing popular throughout Colombia. CLIL combines content and language teaching. Research indicates that language learning in a bilingual educational setting could be improved by very specific language teaching. This article describes the state of language a...