Wilder Yesid Escobar Alméciga- Doctor of Foreign and Second language Education
- Program Chair at Universidad El Bosque
Wilder Yesid Escobar Alméciga
- Doctor of Foreign and Second language Education
- Program Chair at Universidad El Bosque
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Introduction
Interested in researching communication and communicative environments as it pertains to the learning of those involved mostly framed within interaction analysis, Ethnography of communication, Discourse analysis in ELT, etc.
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought about new challenges for class interaction and for English as a Foreign Language teaching instruction in general, and opened a whole world of opportunities to learn about virtual-mediated instruction and about learning altogether. As a reaction to the new social conditions, alternative spaces, and ways of mediating ins...
Bilingual learners often integrate semiotic resources and communicative modes across the languages they speak. Unfortunately, current approaches to researching such a phenomenon assign pragmatic functions to individual discourse moves at best or to isolated utterances at worst. Thus, using a social semiotic multimodal interaction analysis, this stu...
Education in Spain and Latin America has been experiencing an ever-increasing use of English as a medium of instruction at all levels and across curricula. Bringing the vast research-literature into a reflective dialogue is paramount to advancing the discipline and to refining English teaching practices. As such, this literature review systematical...
Recognizing that developing the competences needed to appropriately use linguistic resources according to contextual characteristics (pragmatics) is as important as the cultural-imbedded linguistic knowledge itself (semantics) and that both are equally essential to form competent speakers of English in foreign language contexts, we feel this resear...
The purpose of the present pedagogical experience was to address the English language writing needs of university-level students pursuing a degree in bilingual education with an emphasis in the teaching of English. Using mentor texts and coding academic writing structures, an instructional design was developed to directly address the shortcomings p...
The purpose of the present pedagogical experience was to address the English language writing needs of university-level students pursuing a degree in bilingual education with an emphasis in the teaching of English. Using mentor texts and coding academic writing structures, an instructional design was developed to directly address the shortcomings p...
This article addresses a critical problem about asymmetrical power relationships and uneven conditions in English language education exerted via identity shaping discourses in the document Educación: Visión 2019 issued by the Colombian Ministry of National Education. The study follows the critical discourse analysis method. It characterizes discurs...
This article is the result of a theoretical investigation and a reflection guided by a revision of literature and a set of interviews conducted of two members of the Nasa community: Adonias and Sindy Perdomo, father and daughter who belong to a Nasa sub-community located in Tierradentro, Cauca,
southwestern Colombia. The article addresses three maj...
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Question (1)
We are working on a literature review on School-feeding policies and school food in general. Right now we’re looking into this topic as it pertains to Latin-American, The Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. I have found Scielo and Redalyc to be very good databases for our searches. However, I’m wondering if anyone knows about other databases where I could find literature on the topic at hand. Thank you in advance!
