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Download full textValle, Liliana; Lorduy-Arellano, Danilsa; Porras-González, Nohora – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This qualitative research study delves into elementary school teachers' beliefs and the potential contribution of reverse mentoring to improve English language teaching for children. The purpose was to explore how elementary in-service teachers' beliefs could be transformed after participating in a reverse mentoring experience. A group of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Porras González, Nohora Inés – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2010
This article presents the results of a study on utilizing stories for teaching English as a foreign language to children in first, second and third grades. It was carried out in a Colombian public elementary school in Bucaramanga, Colombia. The proposal was initiated by a group of student-teachers at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Seccional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Story Telling
Suárez Ramírez, Ingrid Rocío; Rodríguez, Sandra Milena – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This article focuses on research carried out in a private school in Bogotá with a group of English as a foreign language fourth-graders. The study aimed to analyze interaction in the English classroom through action research, based on tasks that promoted collaborative work and involvement of the students and their teacher. The instruments to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Méndez, Tatiana; García, Andrea – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This article derives from a critical discourse analysis study that reports the characteristics of elementary school students' power and solidarity relations in English as a foreign language classroom in Bogotá, Colombia, while we were doing our teaching English as a foreign language practicum. The study was based on theories of power and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Empowerment, English (Second Language)
HerazoRivera, José David – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2010
The communicative approach in EFL education has generated a concern for the development of communication in the foreign language classroom within which the promotion of oral interaction is usually paramount. However, what constitutes authentic oral interaction is sometimes not clearly understood and some of the activities that take place in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Interaction
