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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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Niebles-Thevening, Indira; Bailey, Angela; Rosado, Nayibe – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This article reports on a qualitative case study that explored the use of Kumaravadivelu's "Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, Seeing" model as a teacher evaluation tool to identify critical and reflective aspects of teachers' practices for their professional development. The participants were nine English language teachers and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
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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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Ovalle Quiroz, Marcela; González, Adriana – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
English teachers' professional development responds to individual needs and societal discourses about teaching, learning, and language use. This paper reports the findings of a case study that explored the factors that increased or limited the active and committed participation of nine Colombian teachers of English in professional development…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Trujeque-Moreno, Eva Estefania; Aguilar-González, Georgina; Encinas-Prudencio, Fátima – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This article reports the findings of a multiple case study that identifies and describes the collaboration and networking practices of four Mexican English language teaching professionals belonging to two MA cohorts: 2005-2007 and 2007-2009. For two years, curriculum vitae analysis, maps, and in-depth interviews were used to collect data on these…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vieira, Flávia – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
Language teacher education programmes can promote autonomy-oriented change when they are based on a transformative rationale regarding learner and teacher development. This involves adopting an experience-based approach whereby dominant ideas and practices are problematized and opportunities are provided for teachers to learn about, experience,…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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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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Gómez Argüelles, Lizbeth; Hernández Méndez, Edith; Perales Escudero, Moisés D. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2019
This paper reports a qualitative case study of college-level English as a foreign language teachers' attitudes towards oral corrective feedback. Our goal is to characterize such attitudes considering a model which integrates cognitive, affective and conative components as well as different aspects of oral corrective feedback. Six English…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Case Studies, English (Second Language)
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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
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Cárdenas, Melba L. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
The increase in the publication of academic journals is closely related to the growing interest of research communities as well as of institutional policies that demand visibility of the work done by their staff through publications in highly-ranked journals. The purpose of this paper is to portray the experiences of some authors who published…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Academic Discourse, Journal Articles, Content Analysis
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Alibakhshi, Goudarz; Dehvari, Najibeh – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
English, particularly regarding a foreign language teachers' professional development, has been studied in depth. However, it is not known how Iranian English as a foreign language teachers perceive continuing professional development. This study explored the perceptions of Iranian English as a foreign language teachers of continuing professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Castañeda Usaquén, Mireya Esther – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This article reports on a qualitative and interpretative case study conducted at a high school located in the southeast of Bogotá. The case is comprised of a group of fifty-one eighth graders who had had little contact with English. It aimed at exploring how these adolescents made sense of the culture-based materials implemented in the English…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Video Equipment, Foreign Countries
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Lopera Medina, Sergio – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2013
It is often argued that classroom diaries are subjective. This article explores the diary insights of a foreign language reading teacher. The inquiry was based on the following research question: What do the diary insights really evidence about the teaching practices of a foreign language reading teacher? As a research method, a case study was…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Khonamri, Fatemeh; Salimi, Mahin – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2010
Research on teacher development has been the focus of attention in recent decades. The overall aim of this study was to explore the impact of reading strategy training on high school teachers' reading instructional practices. The study was conducted in the EFL context of Iran. To meet this aim, four EFL high school teachers voluntarily took part…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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