This mixed-interdisciplinary study was conducted in four state schools in Medellin-Colombia with the participation of 12 teachers and 111students from 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. Data gathering techniques used were a semi structured interview administered to the 12 teachers anda…

This research project sets out a ‘synthetic approach’ (Wetherell, 1998) to discourse analysis by combining elements of conversationalanalysis and critical discourse analysis. I explain the construction of a discourse that emerged from seven EFL women-learners online chatdiscussions around literature and…

Discourse has been pointed as a site of struggle for power. However, when analyzing the teachers’ discourse of resistance to educationalreforms has been privileged an orientation that prescribes discourse-power relations to mere relations of protest and opposition. This paperexplores the…

This article is based on a qualitative research study that was conducted to explore students’ discourses as citizens in an English as aForeign Language (EFL) course. A pedagogical intervention was proposed in order to bridge the existing gap. The instructional…

A preliminary analysis about the way a group of university students behaved in group activities that promoted interaction and negotiationrevealed that some students were positioned negatively while learning English. This qualitative study analyzed the learners’ positionings asgroup members and the…

This article emerges from the experience that two EFL university professors have accumulated for several years working with portfolios intertiary education. Starting from the theoretical principles they have undertaken to guide their practices when using portfolios, they share theirmethodological procedures…

There is a felt need to understand the way ethnic identities are constructed by Afrodescendant boys and girls aged 6-12 in school contextsin Bogotá as there is little research in such specific context and topic in Colombia. This research report…

Gender studies have taken an important role within the academic community, and specifically in the field of second and foreign languagelearning. In this paper I use a Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA) study to explore how emergent femininities construct genderidentities…

Narrative is a system of understanding that we use to construct and express meaning in our daily lives. The stories we narrate are not justresources for the development and presentation of the individual self; they allow us to see how…

This paper is a reflection on praxis which addresses the phonological stratum as an integral part of the language system. As EFL teachertrainers, we often find that students isolate the different meaning-creating components of language as a natural result of…