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Bedoya, Paula Andrea; Valencia, Luz María; Montoya, Juan Carlos – HOW, 2016
This study sets out to investigate professors' needs from an English as a foreign language program in a public university regarding demands, interests, and lacks based on the methodology of needs analysis. Data collected through a survey, focus groups, and individual interviews showed that professors need to meet the institutional language policy…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Faculty, Focus Groups
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Jaime Osorio, María Fernanda; Insuasty, Edgar Alirio – HOW, 2015
This research report is an account of a study carried out at the Foreign Language Institute of a Colombian public university. Its main purposes were to analyze the teaching practices the participating teachers used in their English lessons, and to assess the effects of these practices on the development of students' communicative competence. A…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Alirio Bastidas, Jesús; Muñoz Ibarra, Gaby – HOW, 2011
English teaching in Colombian primary schools became a requirement because of the promulgation of the Law of Education in 1994. Taking into account that this decision produced some difficulties in the schools, a study was conducted to diagnose the state of English language teaching in primary schools in Pasto, Colombia. Data were gathered through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Public Schools