The daily observation of class sessions has enabled me to recognize that students possess a feeling of self-distrust in oral activities. For this reason, I designed a study carried out with a group of twelve eighth graders. ...

This study focused on investigating whether the teachers’ geographical distribution influences their attitudes towards their students’ use of code switching. The study was guided by the following research question: Are ...

This article describes an action research experience carried out in an advanced English as a foreign language classroom of the language program at a university in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2010. The study proposes the inclusion ...

This article contains the procedures and findings of an investigation carried out by a team of teachers with the purpose of motivating students to speak English. We observed students’ lack confidence to talk and that they ...

Editorial

Beginner students often have difficulties using adjectives when they write descriptions in English. This article focuses on the procedures used to help my sixth grade students understand and use adjectives in the correct ...

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 ...

This article presents a case study research with aims to find out which activities, methodological and textual aspects used in a reading strategies course were causing a group of students difficulties when analyzing ...

In this article I report the findings of a descriptive and interpretative qualitative study carried out in a public school in Bogotá, Colombia. The study aimed at analyzing, describing and exploring teenage students’ social ...

Accumulative index of published articles in PROFILE Vol. 14 (2012)