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Cancino, Marco; Díaz, Gabriela – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
The present study sought to assess and characterise the amount of first language use that two English as a foreign language teachers used to accomplish a number of functions in two classroom modes. An adapted version of the Functional Language Alternation Analysis of Teacher Talk scheme was used to analyse teacher talk in six English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tolosa, Constanza; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía; Guevara, Diana Carolina – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
We present findings of a project that investigated the potential of an online tandem program to enhance the foreign language learning of two groups of school-aged beginner learners, one learning English in Colombia and the other learning Spanish in New Zealand. We assessed the impact of the project on students' learning with a free writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Cuartas Alvarez, Luis Fernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
This article reports the results of an action-research project that examines enhancing students' English learning processes through the selective use of their mother tongues with the aim of overcoming their reluctant attitudes toward learning English in the classroom. This study involves forty ninth-graders from an all-girls public school in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Picón Jácome, Édgar – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
In this article I present some findings of an action research study intended to find out to what extent a teacher-student partnership in writing assessment could promote high school students' autonomy. The study was conducted in a U.S. school. Two main action strategies in the assessment process were the use of symbols as the form of feedback…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation
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Viáfara, John Jairo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
As an EFL Student teachers' advisor, I had constantly perceived that they regarded using the target language with their pupils inside their classroom as a challenge. That is why I became interested in investigating how thirteen student teachers in Tunja public schools faced this issue. While participants were involved in a reflective teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Teachers, Language Usage, Public Schools