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Download full textOlaya-Mesa, Marian Lissett; Mora, Willian Alexander – HOW, 2023
Teacher´s beliefs and conceptions of teaching English are an important area for the professional development path of primary teachers. Giving primary teachers opportunities to grow professionally and support their learning belongs to the wide variety of practices that can be implemented to foster early education today. To do that, the Colombian…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Bonilla-Mora, Martha Isabel; López-Urbina, Johanna Patricia – HOW, 2021
This study aims to understand the local and updated epistemological perceptions of the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Colombia from the voices of English language university teachers. This qualitative research emerges as part of a hermeneutical perspective which allowed the authors to analyze experiences,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Guerrero-Nieto, Carmen Helena; Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán – HOW, 2021
This article presents our narration of the emergence and development of a research area about the teaching and learning of the English language in Colombia and the creation of a research group named Critical Studies of Colombian Education Policies. The narration includes a description of the bilingual education policy in Colombia and a literature…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, English (Second Language)
Gómez Sará, Mary Mily – HOW, 2017
This article reviews the background of the foreign language bilingualism in Colombia, as well as the Colombian bilingualism plans and the policy launched between 2004 and 2016. Then, these plans and policy are analyzed taking into account the most common criticisms from the academic community. In this sense, aspects such as the lack of continuity,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Correa, Doris; Wilches, Jaime Usma – HOW, 2013
In the context of the National Bilingual Program 2004-2019, currently called "Program for Strengthening the Development of Competencies in a Foreign Language," the Colombian government has implemented a series of actions to raise the level of English proficiency of teachers and students and insert the country into globalization…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Bilingualism
Guerrer, Carmen Helena – HOW, 2010
This article aims at contributing to the ongoing discussion about how bilingualism is understood in the current National Bilingualism Plan (PNB for its initials in Spanish). Based on previous research and discussions held at academic events, it is evident that the promoters of the PNB use the term "bilingualism" in a rather…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Folk Culture, National Programs, Spanish
