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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Motivating students to learn english by responding to their interests and learning styles
I observed that students from Barranquillita public school had a great lack of motivation, low interest in learning English and they did not like to interact in English class. They presumed that they could not learn a ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
Improving students' english through problems-solving activities
We as teachers sometimes notice low motivation and participation during the development of our classes. Students have an aphatic attitude and this creates a bad environment when they work in class. Motivating and creating ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
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. -
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. -
Interacting in english through games
A project was conducted in order to encourage oral participation in English through the use of games, with second grade students at Liceo de la Salle School in Zipaquirá. They were between 6 and 7 years old. As the sample ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
Understanding texts in english a challenge for future professionals
This project was conducted in the Fundación Universitaria San Martín with night accounting students who were coursing sixth semester. They were taking 3rd level of English. The purpose of the study was to improve reading ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
A guide text or many texts? "that is the question”
The use of supplementary materials in the classroom has always been an essential part of the teaching and learning process. To restrict our teaching to the scope of one single textbook means to stand behind the advances ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
An approach to making students autonomous readers of the english language
The purpose of this paper is to point out the need to make students autonomous readers through the development of thinking skills such as the ability to classify, compare, deduce, induce and synthesise and reading strategies ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
The challenge of effective vocabulary teaching
Helping students develop vocabulary competence is one of the main challenges English language teachers face. This paper addresses the main aspects we should consider when planning and developing lessons in terms of vocabulary ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
Acknowledgements
I am pleased to share with you this second number of the PROFILE Journal. Now we can assert this has become a means to socialise our teacher development programme outcomes with a wider audience throughout the country.Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
Growing self-estemm and discovering intelligences through oral production
After having applied a needs analysis in an eleventh grade course of English, I could notice that there was a big lack of security and self-confidence in the students. They expressed in different data-gathering instruments ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
Managing multiple activities for specific themes in the efl classroom (prek-grade 2)
The theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner is enlightening and extremely useful in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom. For starters it helps the teacher in understanding the individual differences ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
Using video in the english language clasroom
Video is a popular and a motivating potential medium in schools. Using video in the language classroom helps the language teachers in many different ways. Video, for instance, brings the outside world into the language ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
The communicative english classroom: a fascinating quest
In the present article I describe my vision of what an English classroom should be like. For me, the vision is that of creating a communicative classroom. I define it as the space where participants (both learners and ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development. -
Knowledge base for efl/esl educators: what does it mean?
Searching for an appropriate definition of what constitutes knowledge base in the teaching profession has become a central focus of attention for researchers, educators, and accreditation agencies during the last decades. ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional Development.
