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Influence of Self-Assessment on the English Language Learning Process Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Leonardo Herrera,Carlos Hernán Cuesta Melo,María Alejandra Lucero Zambrano
Assessment is considered to be a reliable and valid means through which the effects of both teaching and learning can be measured. The lack of research studies in relation to self-assessment in the English Language Teacher Education Program (henceforth ELT Education Program) targeted in this study evidence that no policy determines how learners can self-assess their learning process. For that reason
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Controversial Issues and their Impact on the Construction and Reshaping of EFL Learners' Habitus Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Juan Eduardo Ortiz López,Tracey Keitt
The following study aims to explore Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and its shaping and re-shaping through exposure of authentic oral input. The study used podcasts as an EFL teaching strategy where learners were expected to confront their dispositions. For the purpose of this study, the mental illness issue was employed as a controversial topic. The research used a grounded theory approach and multi-case
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English Teachers Gendered Identities Constructions in their Doings, Sayings and Relatings Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Angela Milena Rodriguez
This is a research report of a feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis study carried out in a private University in Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia. This study intended to explore the relation among two EFL university teachers’ pedagogical practices and their gendered identities constructions. Pedagogical practices were framed in the practice architectures: doings, sayings and relatings proposed by Kemmis
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Teacher Education for Language Assessment and Testing: Postgraduate Program Evaluation from its Students’ Perspective Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous
A review of research conducted on language assessment teacher education (TE) revealed a lack of studies focused on the participants’ perspective. This work concentrates on the evaluation of an online computer-assisted language assessment and testing (CALAT) TE program offered for four consecutive years. The research was based on a conceptual, multidimensional e-learning evaluation model. The data were
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lectura digital en la modalidad blended-learning. Una perspectiva educativa. Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Sandra Patricia Quitián Bernal,Juan González Martínez
La lectura como actividad cultural y cognitiva está presente en los procesos académicos de niños y jóvenes de todos los niveles educativos, en particular, en la modalidad blended-learning (b-l). El dominio exigido para la lectura en impreso o digital requiere de un proceso de formación y trabajo escolar teórico-práctico orientado por los docentes, pues los modos de leer y aproximarse de forma efectiva
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Perceptions on Adverbial Mobility in TESOL Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Joseph Onyema Ahaotu
This study examined the perceptions of teachers of English on adverbial mobility in order to determine how far it would be accurate to claim that adverbs are mobile. The researcher adopted the Lexical Approach, an alternative to traditional grammar-based foreign language teaching methodologies, as the framework for the study. The reliability of the study was demonstrated with a Cronbach’s alpha value
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Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Foreign Language Anxiety, and Demotivational Factors in an English Preparatory Language Program Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Enisa Mede,Tugce Budak
This study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and demotivational factors (DF) at a foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey. 148 B1 (intermediate level) students enrolled in the English preparatory school participated in this study. Data were collected from the Turkish-adapted version of the Emotional Intelligence Quotient Inventory
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Bombast Bombardment and Dense Syntax versus Effective Communication and Language Teaching in ESL Settings: Nigerian English Examples Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Omowumi Olabode Steven Ekundayo
Influenced by certain factors and motives, some educated Nigerian English speakers use high-sounding expressions, as well as dense, windy, and complex syntactic structures. This paper examines this linguistic habit in Nigerian English to show how entrenched it has become; explain the sociolinguistic, historical, and idiosyncratic factors that influence it; show its effect on its audience and readers;
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Pair Research Tasks: Promoting Educational Research with Pre-Service Teachers Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Eulices Córdoba Zúñiga,Isabel Cristina Zuleta Vásquez,Uriel Moreno Moreno
This paper presents a study that explores the role of pair-work tasks to promote educational research in 20 pre-service English language teachers (eleven males and nine females) of a Colombian public university. The project was carried out to enhance educational research skills and knowledge by developing theoretical-practical pair-work research tasks. Data was collected through observation field notes
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Commodity, Immunity, and Struggle: (Re)visiting Senses of Community in ELT Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Julia Zoraida Posada Ortiz,Harold Castañeda Peña
This article comprises part of a broader doctoral research project that seeks to explore the senses of community of four English language pre-service teachers (ELPTs) of a public university in Bogotá, Colombia. This study used a relational methodology that introduces an interepistemic dialogue between mainstream research and the Indigenous Research Paradigm. The data collection process was carried
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Decolonizing English Language Teaching in Colombia: Epistemological Perspectives and Discursive Alternatives Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Yamith José Fandiño-Parra
In times of geocultural subalternization of knowledge and education, English language teaching (ELT) is torn between subalternizing policies and subjectivating practices. Within this context, ELT teacher educators face policies and discourses aimed at framing their teaching practices, professional lives, and research agendas. However, at the same time, they are expected to engage in practices and processes
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español como L2 en aprendientes bilingües hablantes de namtrik en edad infantil: estudio de actitudes lingüísticas Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Mónica Chamorro Mejía
El pueblo misak es una comunidad indígena del suroccidente colombiano que, no obstante un estrecho y prolongado contacto histórico con la cultura occidentalizada y la lengua española, mayoritaria en el territorio, ha logrado conservar su identidad lingüística y cultural. En este contexto, el presente artículo expone los resultados de un estudio de actitudes lingüísticas donde se analizaron las percepciones
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Critical Pedagogy Trends in English Language Teaching Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Brenda Portilla Quintero,Jennifer Herrera Molina
This article presents a literature review regarding the latest trends in the inclusion of Critical Pedagogy (CP) in English Language Teaching (ELT) in different countries worldwide and in Colombia, considering its different regions. A review of different articles was conducted by considering four databases that include two regional and two international journal directories in both English and Spanish
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Profesor y portafolio en la consolidación de una cultura de la evaluación-como-aprendizaje Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Edgar Picón-Jácome
En este artículo se discuten los resultados de un estudio de caso en el que se exploraron los retos generados por la implementación de un portafolio evaluativo en el programa de inglés de una universidad pública colombiana. Los hallazgos surgidos del análisis de entrevistas semiestructuradas, grupos focales, reuniones de profesores y reflexiones de los participantes, seleccionados a partir de una muestra
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Teachability of Figurative Language: Teachers’ Perceptions of the Role of Metaphor in English Language Teaching in Chile Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Leonardo Veliz,Scott Smith
This paper reports on a qualitative study that examined the perceptions of English teachers towards the ‘teachability’ of metaphorical language in Chilean EFL classrooms. The study aimed at gaining a better understanding of teachers’ perceptions of the role of metaphor in the English language classroom. A group of six in-service English teachers participated in this qualitative study. Data were gathered
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Developing Oral Interaction Skills in Foreign Language Learners through Media Literacy Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Heydi Karen Neiva Montaño
Few studies in Colombia have incorporated media literacy in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) environments. This paper presents the results of a research conducted in an upper-intermediate course in the Language Institute of the District University (ILUD) in Bogotá. A media literacy model was adapted to create weekly radio workshops in an eight-week pedagogical intervention. During the
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¿Cuál es el input lingüístico al que se exponen los aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjera? Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Edith Hernández Méndez,Hilario Chi Canul,Azucena Ortiz Martínez
La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo describir la exposición al inglés (dentro y fuera del salón de clases) por parte de estudiantes de tres licenciaturas de una universidad del sureste mexicano. Utilizamos un enfoque cuantitativo con alcance correlacional, mediante una encuesta, y adoptamos el modelo cognitivista e interaccionista de Gass (2018) como perspectiva teórica. Los resultados muestran
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Exploratory Action Research: Teaching EFL Vocabulary to Deaf Students through the Use of Visual Aids Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Nicole González-Reyes,Pamela Ibáñez-Acevedo,María-Jesús Inostroza-Araos,Brandee Strickland
In Chile, the 2015 Decree 83 from the Ministry of Education demands curriculum adaptations to ensure that students with special learning needs fully develop their skills by being included into the mainstream classroom. However, little information can be found regarding deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) students in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. Therefore, this qualitative Exploratory
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Acervo construido por futuros maestros de inglés y francés en su práctica en escuelas rurales Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 John Jairo Viafara González,Vitalia Pachón Achuri
Este estudio de caso cualitativo contó con la participación de futuros maestros de inglés y francés, hoy practicantes, pertenecientes a una escuela colombiana de idiomas que mantiene alianzas con instituciones educativas rurales de educación primaria en varias municipalidades vecinas. Mediante entrevistas y encuestas aplicadas a los participantes, los investigadores –también asesores– exploraron cómo
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Hacer el pensamiento visible para el fortalecimiento de las habilidades comunicativas en inglés de niños de transición Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Sebastián Fernando Marín Hine,María Nuria Rodríguez de Martínez
Esta investigación tuvo el propósito de indagar por el fortalecimiento de las habilidades comunicativas en inglés de niños del nivel de transición en un colegio privado de la ciudad de Bucaramanga (Colombia); nivel que, de acuerdo con el Ministerio de Educación Nacional de Colombia (Decreto 3870 de 2006), es la oferta educativa para los niños de 5 años cumplidos. El planteamiento de este proyecto
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Dealing with Functional Diversity in EFL Classrooms: English Teachers’ Positioning Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Laura Camila Villarreal Buitrago,Pilar Esther Méndez Rivera
Functional Diversity (FD) and inclusion are nowadays widely explored subjects, specifically in the field of English language teaching. This article examines the ways in which EFL teachers problematize their role in functionally diverse scenarios while exposing their efforts to improve the exercise of their profession in FD classrooms. By applying positioning theory (Harré, 2001), we analyzed the narratives
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Relevancia de la comunicación ‘no verbal’ en el aula de ILE: ¿cómo hablan las manos en una lengua extranjera? Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Andrea Lizasoain,Katherina Walper,Amalia Ortiz de Zárate,Jazmín Sepúlveda,Evelyn Catripan
Este trabajo explora la utilización de recursos de comunicación no verbales por parte de profesores de inglés en formación inicial y la relación de estos recursos con la competencia comunicativa en el uso de la lengua extranjera por parte de futuros docentes. Mediante el análisis de momentos audiovisuales, con base en el continuo de Kendon se describen los tipos de gesticulación de manos más recurrentes
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Validity and Classroom Language Testing: A Practical Approach Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Frank D. Giraldo
Validity and validation are common in large-scale language testing. These topics are fundamental because they help stakeholders in testing systems make accurate interpretations of individuals’ language ability and related ensuing decisions. However, there is limited information on validity and validation for classroom language testing, for which interpretations and decisions based on curriculum objectives
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Conectividad, hipermedialidad y multimodalidad: de la cultura digital al espacio escolar Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Antonio Quintana Ramírez
Este artículo da cuenta de los resultados de la tesis doctoral: “Hipertextualidad y conectividad: alternativas de la cultura digital para la configuración de ambientes educativos”, que tuvo como objetivo identificar y describir los elementos que caracterizan las prácticas educativas en ambientes en los que se favorece la conectividad, la hipermedialidad y la mutimodalidad, y que, junto con la cibercultura
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Orientación normativa en diccionarios monolingües de inglés como lengua extranjera Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Félix Bugueño Miranda,Laura Campos de Borba
La orientación en el uso de la lengua es una dimensión inherente al aprendizaje; a pesar de ello, la lingüística anglosajona nunca le ha prestado mayor atención a esta dimensión. Paradojalmente, los diccionarios monolingües de inglés como lengua extranjera se caracterizan por ofrecer una orientación ostensiva. En el marco de un proyecto de un diccionario de dudas para estudiantes de español brasileños
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Language Orientations of Chilean Secondary Students in Relation to the Study of English as a Foreign Language Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Corinne Barger,Pedro Sandoval Rubilar
Why teach English in Chile? Dominant public discourse claims for economic development, but with limited social mobility, do students from differing socio-economic groups perceive the same need? Recognising the influence of student belief systems on language acquisition, clashing language orientations could be creating unfavourable classroom environments. Thus, this study set out to identify the language
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Biopolítica, vida cotidiana e interculturalidad: la clase de inglés como un espacio emancipatorio que da solución al conflicto intercultural bilingüe en un colegio público de Bogotá Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Ronald Fernando Quintana Arias,Carol Lizeth Bello-Serna
Con el objetivo de evidenciar la enseñanza del inglés como una herramienta que permite dar solución al conflicto intercultural bilingüe, al reconocer la identidad individual y colectiva local de 20 estudiantes de un colegio público de Bogotá durante el año 2019, se realizaron siete sesiones con una metodología de estudio de caso de enfoque participativo y de tipo descriptivo con herramientas etnográficas
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Study On the Use of Collocations in Business Class Learners Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Nazia Suleman,Sadia Deep,Hussain Othman,Ali Ahmed,Muhammad Zahid Abbas,Muhammad Zahid Nawaz,Uzma Nazar,Hina Shaheen
Previous studies have reported lack of collocational competence and difficulties among English as a second language (ESL) learners. However, collocation is crucial in second language acquisition. This research examined the receptive and productive knowledge of collocations among the business students of COMSATS University Islamabad Vehari Campus who studied ESL. It also investigated the gap in the
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Estrategias didácticas para la enseñanza de inglés como lengua extranjera (EFL) dirigidas a estudiantes con trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad (TDAH) Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Gabriela De la Cruz,Magdalena Inés Ullauri Moreno,Jenny Freire
La adquisición de un idioma es un proceso complejo, y lo es aún más para estudiantes con Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH), este trabajo propone la detección de estrategias metodológicas para la enseñanza de inglés como lengua extranjera (EFL) a un joven de 14 años con TDAH. El análisis del tema es importante puesto que existe muy poca literatura que lo aborda desde el punto
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Measuring Language Gains in a Foreign Language Context Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Ana Muñoz Restrepo,Isabel Valderrama Carvajal,Alejandra Lopez Muñoz,Ricardo Avendaño Franco
Learning gain can be defined as the difference between students’ language competences demonstrated at two different points in time. In this article, we reported on a small-scale study aimed at measuring learning gains and piloting the methods chosen. Fourteen students of English as a foreign language participated in the study. We employed a student self-report survey, an oral performance assessment
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Modern and Postmodern Views of Education that Shape EFL Mentoring in the Teaching Practicum Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Sandra Ximena Bonilla Medina,Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez
Educational settings are now characterised by ethnic, cultural, linguistic, sociocultural and epistemological diversity. This article analyses epistemological diversity as an important factor in shaping teacher education programmes. This involved exploring how teacher-educators and student-teachers align themselves or negotiate modern and postmodern views of education. The research employed a narrative
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Las posibilidades educativas del paradigma hipertextual: modelos y resultados de investigación Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Concepción López-Andrada
Este artículo indaga en modelos y resultados de investigaciones que se han originado a partir de la necesidad creciente por el análisis experimental sobre el hipertexto y su potencia educativa. El conjunto de investigaciones que han sido revisadas en este trabajo ofrece un marco común que, por un lado, se extiende en un contexto institucional, y, por otro lado, contiene lo digital como medio de difusión
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Language and Teaching Methodology Features of CLIL in University Classrooms: A Research Synthesis Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Tammy Mercedes Fajardo Dack,Juanita Argudo,Mónica Abad
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a dual focus educational approach widely used in European primary, secondary and tertiary education institutions in which content subjects included in the mainstream curriculum are taught through a foreign language, usually English. This paper presents a systematic review on relevant existing literature on the application of the CLIL approach in university
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Schoology: una herramienta para el desarrollo de la habilidad escrita en inglés Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Ilba Yaneth Rodríguez Tamayo,Leidy Jhoanna Vargas Hernández
Este estudio es resultado de una investigación adelantada en una maestría de profundización. Versa sobrela relación del desarrollo de la habilidad escrita en inglés y la implementación de la plataforma LMS Schoology como herramienta para tal fin en un grupo de estudiantes de básica primaria en una institución privada en la ciudad de Tunja, Colombia. Los datos se recogieron a través de los trabajos
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Quejas y expectativas de estudiantes de licenciatura en lenguas extranjeras frente a las clases de inglés: estudio de caso desde el análisis crítico del discurso Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Ruth Elena Quiroz Posada,Ana Elsy Díaz Monsalve
Se exponen los resultados de un proyecto de investigación en el aula como estudio de caso, en el que se indagó a un grupo de estudiantes por situaciones vividas en las clases de inglés. Se identificaron en ellas sus quejas y sus expectativas; se implementó un taller total (Egg, 1999) a fin de reconocer dichas situaciones. El tratamiento dado a la información recogida en las quejas y expectativas de
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El discurso del racismo: estructuras y estrategias discursivas Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Sandra Soler Castillo
Este artículo analiza el tema del racismo y su relación con el discurso. Plantea el problema de la representación del sujeto racializado, en particular el sujeto negro, a partir de la existencia de un discurso hegemónico blanco europeo que se ha ido construyendo históricamente en torno al concepto de raza, ello en una lógica de clasificación y categorización a partir de rasgos fenotípicos y características
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The Use of Infographics to Enhance Reading Comprehension Skills among Learners Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Lorena Andrea López Cupita,Laura Milena Puerta Franco
This article describes a pedagogical intervention carried out at a public university in Colombia. A total of 26 psychology students, aged between 19 and 26 years old, taking English classes for academic purposes, and in their fourth semester, participated in this study. This intervention was implemented for an academic semester and aimed to help learners develop their English reading skills—from literal
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Smartphone Screen Recording Apps: An Effective Tool to Enhance Fluency in the English Language Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Catherine Vanessa Pardo Soto,Cecilia Cisterna Zenteno
This investigation intended to assess the effectiveness of smartphone video recording applications in increasing the speaking fluency of students of English as a foreign language (EFL). The study was conducted on a group of thirty-one 7th grade students aged between 12 and 13 years and enrolled in a subsidised school in Chile. The convenience sampling method was employed to select the participating
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Intercultural awareness and its misrepresentation in textbooks Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Edwin Alejandro Henao Mejía,José Orlando Gómez Salazar,Jorge Heriberto Murcia Yalí
The role of culture and intercultural awareness in the language classroom is not a new area of research in ESL/EFL, and its relative importance has shifted in different approaches and methods of foreign language teaching. Today, the goal of some English textbooks has transcended a pure linguistic and language training orientation as text developers have moved towards also teaching intercultural awareness
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English Learners’ Identity Formation as Low and High Investors in their Learning Process Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Maritza Collazos Moná,Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez
This article reports the fndings of a descriptive case study that analyzed how unfair social relationships established in an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom influenced a group of adolescent English language learners’ academic investment and identity construction at a school in Bogotá, Colombia. Data associated with students’ social behaviors and identities were collected through feld notes
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Language Assessment Literacy and the Professional Development of Pre-Service Language Teachers Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Frank Giraldo, Daniel Murcia Quintero
Language Assessment Literacy (LAL) research has focused on defining the knowledge, skills, and principles that the stakeholders involved in language assessment activities are required to master. However, there is scarce research on the relationship between LAL and the professional development of language teachers. Therefore, this exploratory action research study examined the impact of a language assessment
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New Editors and New Challenge at the Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal - CALJ Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Alvaro Hernán Quintero Polo,Sandra Ximena Bonilla Medina
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Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal: A consolidated scientific community locally and globally Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Amparo Clavijo-Olarte
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Identity of foreign language pre-service teachers to speakers of other languages: Insights from Brazil and Chile Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Renata Archanjo, Malba Barahona, Kyria Rebeca Finardi
The aim of this paper is to examine the identity of foreign language (FL) pre-service teachers in two distinct contexts: Brazil and Chile. A multiple case study methodology was used to investigate how foreign language pre-service teachers develop and conceptualize their teacher identity in three different teacher education programs—two in Brazil and one in Chile. The analysis focused on three main
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The contribution of customized lessons with cultural content in the learning of EFL among undergraduates Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Hans Humberto Oviedo Gómez, Henry Alberto Álvarez Guayara
This qualitative descriptive action research study explores the contribution of customized lessons with cultural content in the learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL).. This study was conducted with a group of 17 undergraduates from the English Language Teaching (ELT) program at a state university in south-eastern Colombia. Data were collected via students’ artefacts (EFL lessons developed
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El papel del lenguaje en la construcción de explicaciones en la clase de ciencias en contextos bilingües a través del enfoque CLIL Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Mauricio Mancipe Triviño, Cynthia Marcela Ramírez Valenzuela
El presente trabajo aborda la problematica en torno a la construccion de explicaciones de fenomenos naturales a lo largo de la clase de ciencias en contextos bilingues (espanol (L1)-ingles (L2)), donde se analiza el rol del lenguaje, su significado y su reconfiguracion desde dos miradas: la dinamica comunicativa y la dinamica explicativa. Para llevar a cabo dicho analisis, el presente texto se centra
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The Professional Development of English Language Teachers in Colombia: A Review of the Literature Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Ximena Paola Buendia, Diego Fernando Macías
This article offers a review of 25 empirical studies to identify the areas and findings of professional development initiatives for in-service English teachers in Colombia. The reviewed studies suggest that language teacher professional development has focused on six major areas: language proficiency, research skills and reflective practice, teachers’ beliefs and identities, an integrated approach
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Teaching English through Task and Project-Based Learning to Embera Chamí Students Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Luis Ricardo Rojas, Jenifer Rueda Varon
Bilingual indigenous students who attend public schools around the country are to develop English language skills as part of the suggested curriculum created by the Colombian Ministry of Education. This is the case of the Embera Chami students in Florencia, Caqueta whose conditions for learning English differ from those of monolingual Spanish students. The purpose of this study is to analyze the difficulties
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Beyond the Endorsement of Reflection in Language Teaching and Learning Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Liliana Cuesta Medina, Claudia Patricia Alvarez Ayure, Albedro Cadena Aguilar, Maria Sonia Jiménez Bonilla, Pedro Pablo Maldonado Chacón, Virginia Morales Pulido
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 groups, and questionnaires as the primary sources of
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A comparative study of Mexican and Irish compliment responses Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Elizabeth Flores-Salgado, Michael T. Witten
The purpose of the present study is to compare the compliment responses (CRs) provided by 60 native Mexican Spanish speakers and 60 Irish English native speakers. Using a discourse completion task, 1080 responses were analyzed based on Herbert’s (1989) and Nelson, El Bakary and Al-Batal’s (1993) taxonomy. Findings suggest the existence of cross-cultural similarities in Irish and Mexican CRs in the
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Algunos desafíos y oportunidades de las revistas especializadas en humanidades en Latinoamérica: redes y trampas Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Miguel Farias
A partir de la creacion de una revista academica en el area de los estudios linguisticos y literarios, Arboles y Rizomas , y de la celebracion de los 20 anos de Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal , este trabajo indaga en los desafios y oportunidades de las revistas especializadas en humanidades en Latinoamerica. Desde una perspectiva critico cualitativa, se identifican dos desafios—validar las humanidades
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Implementing a community-based project in an EFL rural classroom Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Francis Bolaños Saenz, Karol Florez, Tatiana Gomez, Mary Ramirez Acevedo, Sandra Tello Suarez
Educational work within a social perspective has been a matter of interest and discussion of researchers and teachers whose work is framed within a pedagogy for social justice, community pedagogies, and critical literacy (Comber & Kamler, 2004). A social perspective to education requires that teachers in rural and urban contexts become socially and culturally committed to addressing the learning needs
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Encounters with peripheral individuals and rural communities for cultural competence development: A case study of learners of Spanish in Colombia Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Juliana Patricia Llanes Sanchez
Cultural competence (Puren, 2013) has been considered a critical aspect for foreign language (FL) teaching and learning due to the wide range of cultural elements associated with the learning of FLs. Hence, this case study aims to describe and understand how encounters with peripheral individuals and rural communities contribute to developing learners’ cultural competence in a Spanish as a foreign
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Community based pedagogy as an eye–opening for pre-service teachers’ initial connections with the school curriculum Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Sandra Patricia Lastra, Deyssi Acosta, Norma Constanza Durán
Today more than ever it is critical to guide future teachers in the direction of understanding how people participate and constitute social reality as a seedbed to create more significant language curriculums that respond to school students’ needs and empower them to act more critically in their worlds. This article discusses the way pre-service teachers started to become aware of the need to establish
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Collaborative Inquiry in the EFL Classroom: exploring a school related topic with fifth graders Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Ana Janneth Gómez Gutiérrez
This action research study reports an inquiry based learning process in which fifth graders worked collaboratively by examining a local topic (free school snack) from their school context. Collaborative inquiry was used as a way to promote elementary students’ reflections in the EFL classroom drawing on Vygotsky’s ideas about learning mediated by social and material contexts (Lee & Smagorinsky, 2000)
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Subjetividades docentes en tiempos de la excelencia educativa Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 María Eugenia Plata Santos
El presente articulo de reflexion, se propone analizar desde la praxis pedagogica, elementos constitutivos y constituyentes de las subjetividades docentes en el contexto de las actuales practicas gubernamentales que promueven la “excelencia docente”. Por tanto, interesa interrogar en estos discursos la forma como operan y los efectos que producen en la subjetivacion docente, asi como reconocer caracteristicas
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Strengthening Local Identity by Writing Chronicles in the EFL Classroom Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Alba Milena Flórez González
This action research study sought to incorporate students’ local identity as the set of traditions, language, history and norms of conduct as a potential element to enhance the foreign language learning process. The purpose of this study was to strengthen local cultural identity in high school students, facilitating a meaningful foreign language learning process and promoting the active participation
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Early EFL Instruction and L1 Literacy Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Kristen M Lindahl, Peter Sayer
This study investigates the relationship between early English as a foreign language (EFL) learning and L1 literacy development in Mexican public schools. Researchers sought confirmatory findings about whether and in which ways early EFL exposure may affect students’ L1 literacy skills via a study evaluating the L1 Spanish literacy of 61 first graders using an adapted literacy assessment. Experimental
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Reverse mentoring and peer coaching as professional development strategies Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Nohora Inés Porras, Lenys Smith Díaz, Marlen María Nieves
Presently, learning a foreign language is an essential academic requirement in several contexts, hence the importance and the need for effective teaching in this field at all educational levels starting with the first years of school. As a consequence, teaching and learning in elementary school is a key issue to success in the learner’s future language learning. However, at some public elementary schools
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Promoting the Use of Local Literacies in EFL Pre-Service Teachers to Inspire their Teaching Practice Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2018-07-31 Yuly Andrea Nieto Gómez
Involving teachers and students in an interaction with their community can provide opportunities to develop literacies from a critical viewpoint. From this perspective, an active exploration and transformation of socio cultural realities can be promoted. This article will serve as a reflection on the theory of community-based pedagogies as a means of fostering pre-service language teachers’ commitment