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Paula Pérez-Rubiano; Anna Peñaloza-Rallón; Julieth López-Acevedo; Sonia Camargo-Albarracín – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
A growing interest in teacher identity and decision-making has emerged in language teaching; however, studies where English language teaching (ELT) educators reflect on their own practice are limited. We engaged in a self-study to understand how our experiences influenced our ELT educator identity at a public university in Colombia. A…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Richter, Kenneth; Houde, Patricia Marie Anne; Zimányi, Krisztina – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This article focuses on the use of the repertory grid technique as a research instrument for conducting and analyzing interviews in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. As a demonstration of the explanatory usefulness of this methodological framework, a pilot study was carried out to elicit second language teachers' tacit beliefs…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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
Álvarez Valencia, José Aldemar; Valencia, Andrés – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This article presents critical intercultural dialogue as a necessary curricular, pedagogical, and decolonial practice to engage and value Indigenous students' cultural semiotic resources in higher education. Drawing from social semiotics, critical interculturality, and decolonial theory, the article analyzes Indigenous students' structural…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Loo, Daron Benjamin – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This autoethnographic study examined the tensions affecting the identity of a teacher in charge of an online English academic writing module during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflections written over one academic year were examined using performativity as an analytical lens. The analysis identified three types of tensions: performing for proximity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Tamayo Cano, Luis Hernando; Riascos Gómez, Andrés Felipe; Pineda Hoyos, Jorge Eduardo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This needs analysis study sought to identify the contextual requirements to design and implement a blended learning program in English at a Colombian public university. Data on teachers' and administrators' perceptions were gathered through a questionnaire, interviews, and focus groups and analyzed using grounded theory. Findings revealed the need…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Blended Learning
Gómez Palacio, Claudia; Gómez Vargas, Deisa Enid; Pulgarín Taborda, Hadaluz – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2019
This article reports the results of a study in which coaching was used as a professional development strategy with five foreign language adjunct instructors at a public university in Colombia. A questionnaire, coaching sessions, interviews, and both coaches and coachees' reports were the data collection sources. Results showed that adjunct…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Coaching (Performance), State Universities, Adjunct Faculty
Córdoba Zúñiga, Eulices; Rangel Gutiérrez, Emerson – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This article reports a study on the implementation of meaningful oral tasks to promote listening fluency in ten pre-intermediate English as a foreign language learners in the English language teaching program at a Colombian public university. The tasks were implemented to overcome the weaknesses these students had to understand oral messages from…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Suárez Flórez, Sergio Andrés; Basto Basto, Edwin Arley – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
This study aims at identifying pre-service teachers' beliefs about teaching English as a foreign language and tracking their potential changes throughout the teaching practicum. Participants were two pre-service teachers in their fifth year of their Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages program in a public university in Colombia. Data were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Pineda Hoyos, Jorge Eduardo; Tamayo Cano, Luis Hernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2016
This paper reports the experience of implementing a teacher's professional development strategy that sought to foster e-moderator competencies among language faculty at a Colombian public university. The study aimed at finding the extent to which participants understood the concepts of e-moderation and e-tivities. We analyzed the participants'…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Teaching Skills, Online Courses, Task Analysis
Córdoba Zúñiga, Eulices – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2016
This article reports the findings of a qualitative research study conducted with six first semester students of an English as a foreign language program in a public university in Colombia. The aim of the study was to implement task-based language teaching as a way to integrate language skills and help learners to improve their communicative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Buendía Arias, Ximena Paola – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
This research seeks to gain deeper understanding of learner autonomy in English as a Foreign Language students from different cultures through the identification and analysis of similarities and differences between Chinese and Colombian students from two public universities: Tianjin Foreign Studies University in China and Universidad Surcolombiana…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Asians
Viafara González, John Jairo; Ariza Ariza, J. Aleida – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
Colombian English as a foreign language student teachers' opportunities to grow as educators through international sojourns do not usually subsume the traditional study and residence abroad goal. This was the case for our participants who engaged mainly in working abroad with study being ancillary. Fifty student teachers from two public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction