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This qualitative study engaged four foreign language student teachers in a reflective practice while completing their practicum. The classroomsof four educational institutions comprised the study sites: two public high schools, one private primary school and one public university, alllocated in…

Abstract:This paper reports the semiotic objectification means that arose among 7 and 8 year-old children from a school in Bogota D.C., Colombia ina math class, when they addressed a generalization task of figural patterns as a process of meaning production.…

Developing discussion skills is a central task in Business English (BE), as doing business involves negotiating meaning and persuasivepower in order to realize one’s transactional intentions. A group of BE learners in Colombia did not recognize L2 verbal and non-verbal…

This report presents the findings from an EAP curriculum development project directed towards PhD students at Colombian university.An analysis of this stakeholder group’s learning needs was conducted through questionnaire research, focusing on (a) describing students’situated contexts and interests and (b)…

The current debate on the use of the mother tongue in the foreign language classroom has led to a wide array of literature being written onthe subject. While this can be enlightening, it can also cause confusion and anxiety among…

Today’s society is influenced by new information technologies, which cause important sociological changes that impact education. As such,the field of EFL today demands different abilities and attitudes from teachers. This paper has two objectives: first, to initiate a reflection onthe…

The genre-based approach (GBA) has been used in different curriculum areas to develop learners’ meaning-making potential. Using thetext as the main unit of communication and pedagogy, this approach conceives of language learning and use as a social, textual, and goalorientedprocess.…

An innovative idea which is increasingly gaining attention is the infusion of technology into face-to-face language curricular programs.Nonetheless, although “the approach of blending Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) applications with face-to-face teaching andlearning is as old as CALL itself” (Neumeier, 2005,…

Culturally responsive instruction has been suggested as quality education (Edwards, 2003) for minority students in subtractive and additivebilingualism settings. However, analytical curriculum development of several official English programs revealed that the gender-centric (malecentric)and Ethno-centric (Euro/Western-centric) approaches were deeply embedded in…