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Aristizábal-Jiménez, Yesika – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This paper reports an action-research study aimed at exploring the benefits of the critical analysis of YouTubers' content through the empowerment spiral model to foster students' talk as performance. Twenty 11th-grade students shared alternative messages related to social issues based on content analysis and reflections. Data were collected via…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Action Research
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Vaca Torres, Ady Marcela; Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
This research study examined how a group of ninth graders enhanced the speaking skill in an English as a foreign language classroom through project-based learning. Data about the experience were collected through field notes, transcripts of learners' oral performance, and one interview. Grounded theory was implemented for data analysis, out of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Rainey, Isobel – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
This study examines the action research topics and topic preferences of two groups of grassroots teachers: active researchers, and potential researchers. The analysis of the topics appears to indicate that, over the past decade, action research at the teaching of English at the grassroots level to speakers of other languages has been principally…
Descriptors: Action Research, English (Second Language), Professional Development, Teaching Methods
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Gómez, Luis Fernando R. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This article describes an action research experience carried out in an advanced English as a foreign language classroom of the language program at a university in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2010. The study proposes the inclusion of authentic literary texts in the English as a foreign language classroom through the implementation of four constructivist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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Correa Díaz, Ana María – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
With the new approach to guide the learning process of students with a model based on the development of competences, and in comparison with the traditional lecture-based learning, it is necessary to start working with the teaching modalities that help to achieve this objective. With that in mind, the aim of the study reported in this article was…
Descriptors: International Trade, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries