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    • A Basis for the Design of a Curriculum Incorporating Music and Drama in Children’s English Language Instruction 

      Rodríguez-Bonces, Mónica
      This article presents the foundations to design a curriculum that integrates music and drama as strategies for the teaching of English as a foreign language. Besides promoting interdisciplinarity, this curriculum seeks to ...
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    • A case study of the learning styles in low-level learners in a private school in bogotá 

      Abella, David; Salinas, Yakelin
      This paper aims to report on a study carried out with eighth graders at a private school in Bogotá. The main focus of the research was to determine the learning styles characterizing lowachievement students when learning ...
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    • A comparison of chinese and colombian university efl students regarding learner autonomy 

      Buendía Arias, Ximena Paola
      This research seeks to gain deeper understanding of learner autonomy in English as a Foreign Language students from different cultures through the identification and analysis of similarities and differences between Chinese ...
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    • A conversation with mike breen 

      Rodríguez, Elizabeth
      The Process Syllabus, (Breen 1989) as its name suggests, is a ‘process plan’ that tries to serve the joint creation and implementation of a syllabus by providing a framework for planning and action that should emerge from ...
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    • A framework to understanding motivation in the tesol field 

      Bastidas Arteaga, Jesús Alirio
      TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is a field that receives the contribution of various disciplines to support its theoretical and practical foundations. In this paper, the author presents an overview ...
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    • A guide text or many texts? "that is the question” 

      Delgado de Valencia, Sonia
      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 ...
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    • A Learning Experience of the Gender Perspective in English Teaching Contexts 

      Mojica, Claudia Patricia; Castañeda-Peña, Harold
      Eighteen Colombian English teachers participated in a course with an emphasis on gender and foreign language teaching in a Master’s program in Bogotá. This text describes the design, implementation, and the learning in ...
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    • A Model for the Strategic Use of Metacognitive Reading Comprehension Strategies 

      Gómez González, Juan David
      This paper describes an approach to developing intermediate level reading proficiency through a strategic and iterative use of a discreet set of tasks that combine some of the more common metacognitive theories and strategies ...
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    • A study of the dominant type of technique (controlled, semicontrolled and free) of two english teachers from a languages teaching program 

      Gavilán Galindo, Francia del Pilar
      This article shows the process and emerging results from a study held at a private university in Bogotá, Colombia. It aims at describing and interpreting the dominant kind of language teaching technique: controlled, ...
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    • Accumulative index of published articles in profile vol. 14 (2012) 

      Cárdenas B., Melba Libia
      Accumulative index of published articles in PROFILE Vol. 14 (2012)
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    • Accumulative index of published articles in profile vol. 15 (2013) 

      Cárdenas B., Melba Libia
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    • Accumulative index of published articles in profile vol. 16 (2014) 

      Journal, PROFILE
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    • Accumulative index of published articles in PROFILE Vol. 17 (2015) 

      Journal, PROFILE
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    • Acknowledgements 

      Cárdenas Beltrán, Melba Libia
      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.
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    • Action research on affective factors and language learning strategies: a pathway to critical reflection and teacher and learner autonomy 

      Fandiño Parra, Yamith José
      This paper argues the importance of action research and critical reflection in the study of affective factors and language learning strategies in foreign language teaching. The starting point is a description of what ...
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    • 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 ...
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    • Addressing culture in the efl classroom: a dialogic proposal 

      Álvarez Valencia, José Aldemar; Bonilla Medina, Ximena
      Language teaching has gone from a linguistic centered approach towards a lingo-cultural experience in which learning a language goes hand in hand with the understanding of not only the target culture, but the learner’s own ...
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    • Addressing the Problem of Negative Lexical Transfer Errors in Chilean University Students 

      Dissington, Paul Anthony
      Studies of second language learning have revealed a connection between first language transfer and errors in second language production. This paper describes an action research study carried out among Chilean university ...
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    • Adolescent students’ intercultural awareness when using culture-based materials in the english class 

      Castañeda Usaquén, Mireya Esther
      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 ...
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    • Adolescents’ awareness of environmental care: experiences when writing short descriptive texts in english 

      Jaramillo Urrutia, Lorena; Medina Gutiérrez, Ana Stella
      Today it is necessary to approach environmental topics with students in an interdisciplinary manner to mitigate the environmental damages that the Earth is suffering. In this paper we report an actionresearch and innovation ...
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