This article proposes a framework to create readers and writers in the second language classroom. The components of the framework are curriculum, instruction and assessment. The curriculum states the goals and philosophy of the program that intends to create lifelong…

This article presents a pedagogical experience in a female private school in Bogotá with a group of seventh graders, where the English classes became an excuse to start posing questions about issues that affect young girls and women around the…

El presente artículo muestra el proceso llevado a cabo en el mejoramiento cualitativo de la escritura a partir de la metacognición, desde la pedagogía de proyectos, enfoque pedagógico que posibilita el trabajo en el aula teniendo en cuenta los intereses…

This research aims to critically look at some recent studies on young people’s writing. It is made up of three parts: the first one points outsome researches associated with university people’s writing in the freshmen year. The second one contains…

This paper aims to provide teachers with a resource to assist them in understanding the inner workings of young English Language Learners (ELLs) and how they externalize their thoughts in either their first or second language. This article not only…

The purpose of this research study was to examine the rater reliability and the concurrent validity of the Language Center oral assessment rubric (LCR) with the KET (Key English Test) and PET (Preliminary English Test), Cambridge Examinations. Thirty two students…

This study analyzed how basic level students comprehend short descriptive texts and rewrite their texts through the use of graphic organizers (GOs). The research was built upon the qualitative research paradigm with the inclusion of descriptive and introspective approaches.The study…

We describe how secondary school students are engaged in designing school newspapers, broadcasting radio shows and using ICT in classrooms as opportunities for communication and learning. The central goal in this project was to set up the school dynamics where…

This article characterizes informed decision-making as one important activity of evaluation in the English Language Teaching (ELT) curriculum. I emphasize on a distinction between human and technical approaches to evaluation. This emphasis is consequence of my reflection upon my and…

In deprived socio cultural contexts like those characterizing the suburbs of Bogotá, cooperative learning (CL) appears as an alternativeto cope with student problems of interpersonal communication and conflict derived largely from gossiping, information distortion, and verbal aggressiveness that result in…