This article reports the findings of an investigation into the experience of a group of eight professors from undergraduate programs in hard sciences who participated in a multi-site study to implement content-based (CB) ...

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, ...

Learners make errors in both comprehension and production. Some theoreticians have pointed out the difficulty of assigning the cause of failures in comprehension to an inadequate knowledge of a particular syntactic feature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the main concerns I shared with other English teachers while taking an in-service course at the Universidad Nacional was that of providing opportunities for students to practice the language. Despite the difficulties ...

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 ...

This paper aims at reporting a research project on students’ understandings of autonomy evidenced in their learning experiences while in the EFL classroom and outside of it in a Colombian public university. This research ...