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Introduction
We perceive teachers to be agents of change who are characterised by high selfesteem as well as by cultural and professional identity. Likewise, we suppose teachers possess solid knowledge of their teaching fields and ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Reading comprehension: a viable challenge for public school students
This study was conducted in the Diana Turbay state school with students of one eighth grade class with a low English level. The group was chosen because of their special characteristics within this public institution: their ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
El desarrollo de competencias: ¿la nueva opción para un aprendizaje efectivo y afectivo del inglés?
Un factor que afecta la adquisición de una lengua extranjera es sin duda el contexto social en el cual la lengua se aprende. ¿Ha estudiado otra lengua o conoce a alguien que lo haya hecho? ¿Cómo la aprendió? ¿Qué tanto ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Communicative grammar: analysis of the words “how ever" in the lob corpus
The present analysis of the word however, as a practical rather than theoretical activity, draws on insights from everyday talk and information from both native speakers of English and EFL students as well as from the ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Using play activities and audio-visual aids to develop speaking skills
A project was conducted in order to improve oral proficiency in English through the use of play activities and audio-visual aids, with students of first grade in a bilingual school, in la Calera. They were between 6 and 7 ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Encouraging soeaking through the use of storytelling
While students were involved in English classes throughout last year (1998), it was noticed that all of them recognised isolated vocabulary, but were not able to apply it in oral or written sentences. Some action research ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Titles of research projects
The research reports corresponding to the titles we list in the following pages can be consulted in the Foreign Languages Department at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. There, we can find a detailed account of the theoretical ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Helping students develop listening comprehension
Listening practice is often neglected or handled inappropriately in the teachinglearning process. This poses problem because listening is an integral part of conversations. Oral skills without equally welldeveloped listening ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Playing and teaching english to adults
This project tried to answer the query: Can adult students (who have not studied English before) speak English if they are given the opportunities to do it? The high school subjects in question belong to Instituto San ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Group work as a means of getting students to participate
Three types of activities were worked on with a group of 15 shy and slow 10th grade students at the Centro Educativo Integral Colsubsidio to get them to participate and talk more often and fluently than they were doing. ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Improvement of writing proficiency through creation of homogeneous groups in the classroom
Our interest in students’ writing in the second language (English) encouraged us to carry out research in the classroom, taking homogeneous group and mixing it with new activities to provide alternatives in writing. We ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Reading: a motivating and interactive process
This research was primarily intended for those who are professionally concerned with the teaching of a foreign language, and especially for those who consider reading to be one of the most important sources for developing ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Increasing students' motivation by using computers
The lack of motivation in the 9th grade students of Tomás Rueda Vargas School was the objective of this project, so we planned a series of workshops in Microsoft Word to apply in the computer lab. We observed that by working ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Kinds of materialas to use as homework
As our environment is basically monolingual, there is an absence of an adequate linguistic context, except for some music in English, cable TV or internet. In order to reinforce what students learn in English class, teachers ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Homework in the learning process
A problem has been observed that creates difficulties in the normal and productive development of the English courses. Without any doubt, doing homework is very important in the learning process of a new language. Doubtless ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2000 -
Encouraging interaction by applying cooperative learning
A project was conducted in order to improve oral interaction in English by applying cooperative learning to students of seventh grade. These students have lower levels of oral production and attend Marco Fidel Suárez public ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2001 -
Literacy development in kindergarten
This project was conducted in order to motivate students of transition grade in Hispanoamericano Conde Ansurez School to read through the use of strategies for story-telling. As the sample for this study, the five students ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2001 -
Improving speaking through role plays and dramatization
Frequently, in our English classes, we observe our students working on some tasks and some questions come to our minds: Are we using good procedures to teach English?. Are they effective ways to learn English? and in ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2001 -
Stimulating an inquiring attitude
This article presents the first year experience of teaching Science combined with English in the preschool section with ages between 4 and 6 in the Gimnasio Campestre. A brief theoretical framework is exposed based on ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2001 -
Improving new vocabulary learning in context
The main purpose of this study is to help students increase their vocabulary learning in context because when learners participate in a special class with different activities and keep in mind the situation, they remember ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. 2001
