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González, Cindy Valdelamar; Calle-Díaz, Luzkarime – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This case study reports how three high-school teachers from two state schools in Colombia enacted the National English Suggested Curriculum by the Ministry of Education. The teachers' trajectories of action were analyzed through semi-structured interviews, teachers' narratives, and lesson observations. Using the ecological model of agency as a…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Özdemir-Yilmazer, Meryem; Özkan, Yonca – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
Dynamic assessment is a dialectic procedure requiring teachers to assess learners' progress by paying attention to students' errors while providing graduated prompts to help them fix them. Although previous studies have focused on the teachers' competence in carrying out the dynamic assessment, this case study explores the dynamic assessment…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Case Studies, Error Patterns
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Cuartas Álvarez, Luis Fernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This paper reports on an exploratory collective case study on three in-service English language teachers in Medellin, Colombia. The study aimed at creating a route for teachers to collaboratively construct their understanding of intercultural communicative competence through their involvement in a study group. Data were collected through…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Intercultural Communication, Language Teachers
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Burgin, Ximena D.; Daniel, Mayra C. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
This paper reports on Ecuadorian pre-service and in-service teachers' ability to conduct action research in the classroom as well as their skills to efficiently adjust instruction to address students' cultural and linguistic diversity. A qualitative case study approach was implemented to collect information from teacher candidates in 2015,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Private Schools
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Garzón, Edgar Augusto Aguirre – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This paper describes a case study research project carried out in a public school in Bogotá, Colombia, with four unlicensed teachers of English as a foreign language. Although the institutional guidelines in the school suggest that teachers should collectively propose changes to shape pedagogical realities, there is evidence of little…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies
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Peláez, Oscar; Usma, Jaime – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
Drawing on the concept of policy appropriation, this study investigates how different education stakeholders in a rural region of Colombia perceive foreign language education policies, and how these perceptions shape the way they recreate these reforms at the ground level. Contributing to the field of language policy analysis in Colombia and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Case Studies, Educational Change