Liliana Cuesta

Liliana Cuesta
University of La Sabana

Ph.D. in English Philology
MA in ELT Director (School of Education). Director of Outreach and Engagement (School of Communication).

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Introduction
Her research areas include teacher and intercultural education, online learning, CLIL, COIL, on which topics she has published in a number of indexed journals and conference proceedings. Currently she is the Director of Outreach and Engagement at the School of Communication, and the Director of the Master in English Language Teaching programs at Universidad de La Sabana. Liliana also she serves as an evaluator of the National Accreditation Council in Colombia and of various boards and programs.

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Publications (33)
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In Colombia, the quality of public-sector language (and general) education remains low, and despite government initiatives for English-language teaching, there is no public policy for teaching content in additional languages. In the highly competitive private sector, institutions are keen to showcase the latest materials from educational publishers...
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This is a time of special attention and interest for world education. The pandemic we are facing has made us rethink many dynamics at work, professional, family and personal levels. It has made us realize that this contingency undoubtedly opens up countless paths towards the development of virtual education. However, it is essential that action pla...
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The chapter highlights the changing nature of blended learning (BL). In addition to this, the chapter provides various pedagogical considerations drawn both from the research literature and the analysis of effective practices. Thus, by examining specific challenges and opportunities concerning the design, development, and assessment practices in BL...
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The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to determine the factors and conditions that intervene in the implementation of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) in diverse Colombian educational contexts. This study was conducted at five private schools from different cities and towns in the country (Bogotá, Chía, Tenjo, Facatat...
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This paper reports on the first phase of an exploratory qualitative study carried out with in-service language teachers pursuing a graduate degree in Colombia. It aims at analyzing their practices, needs, and challenges, examined under two perspectives—the teacher as a learner and the teacher as a teacher. The study made use of interviews, focus gr...
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This paper reports on the initial stages of a larger study on plurilingual rhetorical communicative competences. Experiential evidence indicated a mismatch between the academic writing competences desired from and those displayed by the participants—adult bilingual (L1 Spanish, L+ English) English-language teacher trainees in a postgraduate program...
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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...
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The present study aims to analyze the influence of a cyberbullying prevention program. The sample consisted of 1355 preadolescents in the case of Colombia and 999 in the case of Peru. The revised school violence questionnaire CUVE-R was applied (álvarez-García et al., 2011). The results indicate that the factors of school violence that occur most i...
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Learners are increasingly required to analyze critically information presented in languages other than their first to form reasoned opinions and solve problems. It is thus urgent to develop their argumentation skills, needed not only for academic success but also later professional life—and, indeed, by participant citizens in democratic societies....
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Access to online information and communication and the use of social networks have all increased considerably among pre-adolescents over the last decade. These trends are directly related to the similarly growing phenomenon of cyberbullying: as pre-adolescents’ exposure to online social interaction increases, so does their potential involvement in...
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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...
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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...
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This study reports on the first stages of a larger project to develop an ICT-supported cyberbullying prevention programme that fosters development of children’s communication skills for the safe use of social media. To establish baseline data on the incidence and growth of cyberbullying in Bogotá, Colombia, we applied a Revised School Violence Ques...
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A survey of graduate-level trainee language teachers’ pre-existing beliefs and practices about academic writing revealed mismatches with expectations and norms of professional researchers. Thus, we trialed a series of instructional strategies over one year aimed at realigning participant understandings of professional research communication and acc...
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This article examines the nature and evolution of the term blended learning (BL), which encompasses numerous connotations, including its conception as a strategy, delivery mode, opportunity, educational shift, or pedagogical approach. Although much has been said in this field, very few studies examine the different types of blends behind their impl...
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The demands of an increasingly knowledge-driven society and economy, characterized by the emergence of more interconnected communities and ever-growing numbers of digitized users, have imposed a dramatic shift on the understanding and practices of living, of learning, and of recognizing different ways to learn and be taught. The digitization of dai...
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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...
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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...
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This study explores the influence of self-assessment of vocabulary competence on a group of students’ oral fluency. Twenty-four young adult learners participated in a learning process that promoted their oral skills and vocabulary development. Self-assessment was mainly examined through the analysis of students’ learning logs, field notes and artef...
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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...
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This paper presents the findings from a qualitative study on collaborative CALL design and implementation carried out with two groups of postgraduate language-teacher trainees who designed and piloted nine virtual language resource centres (VLRC) at 16 educational institutions of different levels and contents for an academic year. The project was c...
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This paper reports on an investigation of the self-regulatory beliefs and practices of a group of bilingual adult (L1 Spanish, L2 English) in-service English-language teacher trainees in a postgraduate program at Colombian university who displayed a mismatch between expected and realized performance outcomes. The objectives were to provide an evide...
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This paper reports on the initial n stages of a larger study on persuasive plurilingual communicative competences. Experiential evidence indicated a mismatch between the academic writing competences desired from and those displayed by the participants—adult bilingual (L1 Spanish, L2 English) in-service English-language teacher trainees in a postgra...
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Social standards nurture individual self-efficacy beliefs. Such models influence learners' performance in so that they can learn to recognize in others, alternate means to think, act, and do. One of these models is the meaningful other, whose role is explained in the present paper. Together with the implications that are unveiled through its discov...
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This article examines types of interaction from the perspective of intervening agents and interaction outcomes. We argue that the strategic combination of these types of interaction with certain core features (such as dosified input, attainable goal-setting, personalization and collaboration) contribute to creating a more effective relationship bet...
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This article discusses various features in the design and implementation of online course materials. The author provides a critical review of some instructional design patterns and expands on the alignment among instruction, motivation and learners’ performances as part of a curriculum design process. In this context, the author emphasizes the valu...
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This article reports the effects of using the genre-process approach and e-portfolio dossier to improve short story writing among senior year students from a state school in Bogotá. This study originated from a need to generate student interest in the development of writing skills and to find instructional strategies that guide learners through eac...

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