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Ngo Cong-Lem – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2025
This article reports a qualitative case study on the translanguaging practices of Vietnamese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) educators and explores the mechanisms behind individual differences in their practices through an integrative cultural-historical activity theory perspective. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Jessica Vega-Abarzúa; Marco Morales; Constanza Olivo; Francisca Rubilar; Eduardo Gutiérrez-Turner – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2025
This mixed-methods study examined preservice teachers' perceptions of C1 English proficiency, focusing on their linguistic competence, understanding, attitudes, and challenges. Conducted at a university in Ñuble, Chile, with 13 participants, data were gathered through a closed-ended questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. Findings suggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Paula Vanessa Bello; Melba Libia Cárdenas – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This exploratory case study analyzes Colombian university students' experiences as English users during international mobility. Data collected through surveys and interviews were examined based on content analysis and principles of grounded theory. The students' self-perceived English proficiency and communicative performance before and during…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sergio Lopera; Nelly Sierra – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2025
This qualitative ethnographic study investigates students' agency of a language policy in a Colombian public university. Participants were 85 undergraduate students, and data collection involved document analysis, non-participatory observation, a questionnaire, and a portfolio. Three categories emerged from the analysis: acceptance, rejection, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Ahmet Basal; Erdem Akbas; Betül Bal-Gezegin – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
Corpus analysis offers a more accurate understanding of a language than intuition but is not widely used in foreign language instruction. This study uses a hermeneutic-phenomenology approach and content analysis to examine the impact of a corpus literacy course on the perceptions and performance indicators of 29 English language teachers. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Faculty Development, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Edgar Lucero; Ángela María Gamboa-González; Lady Viviana Cuervo-Alzate – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This article provides an overview of how student-teachers and the pedagogical practicum are conceived in the Colombian English language teaching field. The study reviewed 72 articles in three levels of analysis: extraction of corresponding knowledge, epistemic review, and concatenation of emergent insights. The analysis reveals that…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mónica Abad-Célleri; Juanita Argudo-Serrano; Tammy Fajardo-Dack; Patricio Cabrera – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This mixed-method study examines Ecuadorian preservice English as a foreign language teachers' cognition regarding pronunciation models and targets, identity, and confidence. Data were gathered through a self-reported, anonymous online questionnaire. Factor analysis and Spearman's correlations were conducted on the quantitative data, and content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Rezvani, Reza; Miri, Parisa – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This study investigates how sensitizing graduate L2 students about source-text use might affect their citation practices. Two summary writing tasks involving two similar published articles, one irrelevant and one pertinent to source-text use, were assigned individually to 16 graduate English language teaching students from Iran. After completing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Graduate Students
Lizarazo Pereira, Diana Marcela; Roberts, Felicia; Tamayo, Ricardo M. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
First (L1) and second (L2) language speakers process information differently. The current study explores whether L1 and L2 English language speakers process the emotional connotations of high and low-frequency words using the emotional Stroop task. With this task, we measure the reaction time required to name the color of words with positive,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Word Frequency, Language Processing, English (Second Language)
Adriana Montoya; Doris Correa – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This multimodal/multimedia discourse analysis explored institutional practices regarding native and non-native English speaker teachers in five language centers in Medellín, Colombia, as reflected in interviews with coordinators and teachers, language centers' websites, social media, and recruitment materials. Data were analyzed using content and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Cruz-Arcila, Ferney; Solano-Cohen, Vanessa; Briceño-González, María Liliana; Rincón, Ana; Lobato-Junior, Antonio – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This study examines hegemonic discourses on English and socioeconomic development from teachers' perspectives. Specifically, it scrutinizes the sorts of positions a group of 36 teachers of English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese in an undergraduate program of modern languages take towards both the predominant narrative of English as the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sibel Tatar – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This study investigates the content and characteristics of the cognitions of 30 Turkish English-as-a-foreign-language preservice teachers as manifested in their teaching philosophy statements. The study showed that the preservice teachers' cognition was focused on both the pedagogical (teaching-learning and language teaching methods) and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
Communication through social media is a phenomenon whose relevance has involved the consideration of online discourse in the language teaching context. This article explores the functionality of Twitter (now called "X") for science dissemination within the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language. To do this, 100 tweets…
Descriptors: Social Media, Information Dissemination, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Edgar Aguirre-Garzón; Diego Ubaque-Casallas – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This article analyzes the "cuir" identity of an EFL student-teacher within the context of his pedagogical practicum. We adopt the term "cuir" as an analytical category to explore how notions of teacher identity and language pedagogy are mutually constructed. The paper challenges the traditional language pedagogy paradigm and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Serhat Basar; Irem Çomoglu – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This systematic review aimed to provide a comprehensive view of critical pedagogy-informed collaborative professional development practices in English language teaching. Using four databases and relevant keywords, we found 67 studies conducted in Asia, South/Central/North America, Europe, Australia, and the Gulf countries and systematically…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction