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    • Guidelines for contributors 

      Cárdenas B., Melba Libia
      This journal is led by the PROFILE research group of the Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá campus. It is a publication for teachers of English interested in increasing their ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • “buddy system”: a pedagogical innovation to promote online interaction 

      Espitia Cruz, Martha Isabel; Kwinta, Anna
      Recent technological development has created new pedagogical practices in the EFL classroom to maximize the time for students to use the language by considering online tools. Whilst working in a pedagogical context with ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • The role of english pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching in teacher education programs 

      Castellanos Jaimes, Judith
      This paper presents a review of studies on pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching. The purpose of the article is to show teacher educators the relevance of exploring such issue in the classroom. Preservice teachers ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Adapting features from the siop component: lesson delivery to english lessons in a colombian public school 

      Rativa Murillo, Hollman Alejandro
      Despite some school efforts to offer students the best second language learning, English language lessons are often taught with an overuse of the mother tongue. Hence, an action research project was conducted in order to ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Building esp content-based materials to promote strategic reading 

      Bautista Barón, Myriam Judith
      This article reports on an action research project that proposes to improve the reading comprehension and vocabulary of undergraduate students of English for Specific Purposes–explosives majors, at a police training institute ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Analyzing the effect of technology-based intervention in language laboratory to improve listening skills of first year engineering students 

      Pasupathi, Madhumathi
      First year students pursuing engineering education face problems with their listening skills. Most of the Indian schools use a bilingual method for teaching subjects from primary school through high school. Nonetheless, ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Emotions as learning enhancers of foreign language learning motivation 

      Méndez López, Mariza G.; Peña Aguilar, Argelia
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Pedagogical factors that influence efl teaching: some considerations for teachers’ professional development 

      Abad, José Vicente
      In this article we present the results of a qualitative research study on the pedagogical factors that influence English teaching in four public schools of Medellín, Colombia. Twelve teachers were interviewed regarding ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Pre-service teachers’ beliefs about language teaching and learning: a longitudinal study 

      Cota Grijalva, Sofía D.; Ruiz-Esparza Barajas, Elizabeth
      This paper contains the description of a research project that was carried out in the Bachelor of Arts in English Language Teaching program at a Mexican university. The study was longitudinal and it tracked fourteen students ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Efl teaching methodological practices in cali 

      Chaves, Orlando; Hernández, Fanny
      In this article we aim at showing partial results of a study about the profiles of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in both public and private primary and secondary strata 1-4 schools in Cali, Colombia. Teachers’ ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Identity-forming discourses: a critical discourse analysis on policy making processes concerning english language teaching in colombia 

      Escobar Alméciga, Wilder Yesid
      This article addresses a critical problem about asymmetrical power relationships and uneven conditions in English language education exerted via identity shaping discourses in the document Educación: Visión 2019 issued by ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Language policy and the manufacturing of consent for foreign intervention in colombia 

      Valencia, Marlon
      The present paper provides a critical analysis of Colombia’s National Program of Bilingualism focusing on the ideologies behind it, how it facilitates the manufacturing of Colombian citizens’ consent for foreign intervention ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • The role of collaborative work in the development of elementary students’ writing skills 

      Yate González, Yuly Yinneth; Saenz, Luis Fernando; Bermeo, Johanna Alejandra; Castañeda Chaves, Andrés Fernando
      In this article we report the findings of a two-phase action research study focused on the role of collaborative work in the development of elementary students’ writing skills at a Colombian school. This was decided after ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Editorial 

      Cárdenas B., Melba Libia
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • From drills to clil: the paradigmatic and methodological evolution towards the integration of content and foreign language 

      Muñoz-Luna, Rosa
      Content and language integrated learning has become a common practice in European higher education. In this paper, I aim to describe how this integrated teaching practice comes as a result of a paradigmatic and pedagogical ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • Collaborative project work development in a virtual environment with low-intermediate undergraduate colombian students 

      Salinas Vacca, Yakelin
      This paper reports on an exploratory, descriptive, and interpretive study in which the roles of discussion boards, the students, the teacher, and the monitors were explored as they constructed a collaborative class project ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • The design of a rubric to evaluate laboratory reports in astronomy: academic literacy in the disciplines 

      Arancibia Aguilera, María Cristina
      A rubric was developed to evaluate laboratory reports written by undergraduate students of astronomy and astrophysics from Universidad Católica de Chile. The process of elaboration, peer validation, and application of the ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • The impact of different types of journaling techniques on efl learners’ self-efficacy 

      Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Mortazavi, Mahboobeh
      This article reports on an investigation of the impact of different methods of journaling on self-efficacy of learners of English as a foreign language. Sixty upper-intermediate Iranian English language learners were ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • The role of songs in first-graders’ oral communication development in english 

      Castro Huertas, Ivon Aleida; Navarro Parra, Lina Jazmín
      We report on an action research project aimed at developing oral communication in first-graders, using songs as a strategy for young learners to use and enjoy English. It was developed at a Colombian public school over ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 
    • The role of genre-based activities in the writing of argumentative essays in efl 

      Chala Bejarano, Pedro Antonio; Chapetón, Claudia Marcela
      This article presents the findings of an action research project conducted with a group of pre-service teachers of a program in modern languages at a Colombian university. The study intended to go beyond an emphasis on ...
      Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development.