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Cruz Arcila, Ferney; Solano-Cohen, Vanessa; Rincón, Ana Cecilia; Lobato Junior, Antonio; Briceño-González, María – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
In the context of an undergraduate program in modern languages that includes the learning of French, Italian, Portuguese, and German in addition to English, this paper problematizes anglonormativity; that is, the dominant discourses of English as the taken-for-granted language of development. From the particular context of Colombia, where the…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Peñaloza, Anna Carolina; Vásquez Guarnizo, Jhonatan – HOW, 2019
The following pedagogical proposal seeks to understand what types of reflections Modern Languages students reveal about educational issues when analyzing artwork within their context. We worked with twelve Modern Languages students in their fifth and sixth semester at a public university in Colombia. The students began by analyzing four murals…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Encarnación Mosquera, Carmelina – HOW, 2021
Self-assessment for accreditation purposes requires follow-up of graduates and feedback with academic programs. As part of the improvement actions, this study was done to characterize graduates' methodologies in English language teaching. The data, gathered through questionnaires, showed that graduates privilege the communicative and eclectic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Modern Languages
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Torres-Casierra, Liana Mercedes – HOW, 2021
This article presents the preliminary results of an enquiry on the work experience of Colombian language teachers who have entered the workforce in foreign countries. The study aims at unveiling aspects of the personal and professional experience of those graduates that might be relevant for pre-service teachers in local degree programs ahead of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dimas, Héctor Manuel Serna – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study intends the validation of an instructional design on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the beginning levels of German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and English in the Modern Languages program at EAN University in Colombia. The design constituents: language integration, oral production, fieldwork activities, and a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Introductory Courses
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Báez Dueñas, Leidy Tatiana; Chacón Vargas, Leidy Marcela – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2013
This article describes a research project we carried out in order to study the role of student-teachers' teaching techniques as regards their pupils' extrinsic motivation as they partake in communicative speaking activities at a public school in Tunja, Colombia. Data were gathered by means of field notes, focus groups and student-teachers'…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teaching Methods, Role, Student Motivation