This article describes some insights gained as a result of a pedagogical experience designed for Colombian ELT teachers with the objective of raising gender awareness in their teaching practices. Such experience derives from a gender-based graduate course offered in a master’s programme in Applied Linguistics to the teaching of English at a Colombian university. During the implementation of this course there were important reflections and insights that could be used for other English language teachers who are interested in adopting a gender view within their teaching practices. This article positions the practical learning of this experience as transformative practices, which aim at supporting in-service English language teachers within their learning process of this perspective. It is hoped that these practices will challenge traditional understandings of English language teacher education drawing on critical pedagogy to build a more explicit gender awareness in the ELT field.

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帮助英语教师提高性别意识

本文介绍了通过为哥伦比亚英语语言教学教师设计的教学经验而获得的一些见解，目的是提高其教学实践中的性别意识。这种经验来自哥伦比亚大学一门应用语言学硕士学位课程中提供的基于性别的研究生课程。在本课程的实施过程中，有重要的思考和见解，可用于其他有兴趣在教学实践中采用性别观点的英语教师。本文将这种经验的实践学习定位为变革性实践，旨在在这种观点的学习过程中为在职英语教师提供支持。