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Download full textBenavides Jimenez, Fabián; Mora Acosta, Yenny Lisbeth – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2019
This article provides an overview of the ideas that two groups of bilingual teachers from different contexts, one indigenous and the other Western, have about the concepts of education, bilingualism, and interculturality. Their opinions were gathered through focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and videos, and reviewed under light of what the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Teachers, American Indians, Western Civilization
Lakshmana Rao Pinninti – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2025
This article reports the impact of an exploratory action research (EAR) project on developing teachers' action research competencies. Through various face-to-face and online activities, the project facilitated four English language teachers to conduct EAR in their teaching contexts. Qualitative data were collected through reflective journals and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Action Research, Research Projects, English (Second Language)
Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
This article analyzes the cultural content in three communicative English as a foreign language textbooks that are used as main instructional resources in the English classroom. The study examined whether the textbooks include elements of surface or deep culture, and the findings indicate that the textbooks contain only static and congratulatory…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Cuasialpud Canchala, Ruth Elena – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2010
This article reports an exploratory study carried out at a public university in Bogotá, Colombia, with two indigenous students who took a level I virtual English-course during the second term of 2008 and the first term of 2009. The aim was to analyse their attitudes towards the learning of English through the virtual modality. Interviews,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, American Indians, English (Second Language)
Ahluwalia, Gurleen; Gupta, Deepti; Aggarwal, Deepak – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
In this article we present an investigation that focused on the students' perception of using Blogs as a means to supplement in-class language learning activities. Blogs are easy to manage and enable students to publish their work in a chronological manner. They help students to engage in online exchanges and promote learner autonomy. This study…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Second Language Learning, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
Karbalaei, Alireza – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2010
The notion of "learner beliefs" has garnered much attention in the field of second language acquisition. Although different studies have been conducted to study learners' beliefs about language learning, little research has looked into the issue of L2 readers' beliefs and their relations to reading strategies. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
