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.…

This study aims to describe the pedagogical practices that take place at the Language Institute of a university based on the observation of classes, questionnaires and interviews of teachers and students. In order to achieve the purpose of the project,…

This paper encompasses analyses of pedagogical and cultural situations from the perspective of some of the authors studied in our discourse analysis class. Cultural authenticity and cultural stereotypes are dealt with stemming from real issues and mirroring them through the…

El siguiente trabajo forma parte de un proyecto de investigación sobre el Parámetro de los Compuestos (Compounding Parameter) (Snyder1995, 1996, 2001) en el marco teórico de la Gramática Universal. Según la tipología elaborada por Snyder (1995, 1996, 2001) las lenguasse…

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 is a report on a finished research project that explores the cultural perceptions of children through tasks based on films in an English after-school program. This qualitative case study was carried out at a private school in Bogotá 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…

The application of Vygotskian ideas is not new to education, research studies abound reporting various ways in which they can be applied. But in the particular field of Second Language Acquisition a Vygotskian approach is rather new, with the first…

The Pontificia Bolivariana University has decided to look for alternatives to make the study of English more relevant for studentsʼ professional practice. The authors of this article consider that Content Based Instruction (CBI) offers scenarios in which content and language…

This text, based on Bakhtin’s perspective, sees language as a condition for the construction of reality. The subject’s understanding of reality is always determined by situational circumstances (event) and the way individuals experience and perceive these events.The various senses are…