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Forero-Mondragón, Alber Josué; Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This article reports a study about how the discourse of standard English exercises disciplinary power in five international scholarships programs. This research interest arises from problematizing the discourse of standard English present in the requisite of proficiency certification through so-called valid tests. Adapting Fairclough's critical…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Becerra, Tatiana; Herazo, José; García, Paula; Sagre, Anamaría; Díaz, Luisa – ELT Journal, 2020
Reading to Learn (R2L) is an instructional approach that leads students from aided to independent creation of meaning in reading and writing. The approach uses whole texts as the point of departure for instruction. This case study explored how R2L promoted ninth graders' comprehension of explanation texts in EFL during six lessons and students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Processes
Cruz Arcila, Ferney – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Drawing on a study of English language teachers' practices and identities in rural Colombia at a time of active education policy promoting English, this paper reports on how such policy has been "interpreted" and "translated" in rural schools. Informed mainly by the theory of policy enactment [Ball, S. J., Maguire, M., &…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Castillo, Rigoberto; Florez-Martelo, Laura Stefany – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2020
In the context of advocacy of the rights of minorities, communities should research about the learning rights of individuals with hearing loss. This article reports a case study that looked into the retrospectives and perspectives of three hard-of-hearing participants (HHs) on learning another language. The data on retrospectives refer to the…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests