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Ricardo Nausa; Jovana Živkovic; Liubava Sichko – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This article reports an English language needs analysis of Colombian Social Science master's students. Information from faculty interviews, course syllabi, and student surveys shows that students need English to access and update their disciplinary knowledge through research articles and book chapters to successfully participate in class…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Course Descriptions, Information Sources, Social Sciences
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Oliva, Kathia Salomé Ibacache; Munoz-Diaz, Javier; Berry, Caitlin M.; Vance, Eric A. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
As inclusion becomes a growing standard for universities in the United States, data extracted from OCLC suggest that university libraries in the United States build their Spanish-language collections with books purchased primarily in Spain and Mexico. This overlooks presses from 19 other Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. This research is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Hispanic Americans, Spanish Speaking
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Yecid Ortega – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Using a critical approach, I discuss the socioeconomic power impact of capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Colombia, described as a symbolic annihilation process. I argue how these three constructs have influenced language policy-decisions making processes and classroom practices…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Teaching Methods, Social Systems, Global Approach
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Liliana Herrera Nieves; Verónica De La Hoz Vargas; Elis Coba Roncallo; Ariana Hernández Gutiérrez – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Reading is regarded as one of the basic learning processes that provides multiple skills and abilities for daily life. The study reported on here arose from evidence of reading comprehension difficulties of middle school students in Colombia, and from reflection on the didactic strategies used for the promotion and teaching of reading. The purpose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Middle School Students, Learning Processes
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Diana Marcela Duque Salazar; María Alejandra Tangarife Loaiza; Ángela Patricia Velásquez Hoyos – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This systematic literature review examines the panorama of interculturality in rural contexts of bilingual education in Latin America. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in Latin America and identify key themes, challenges, and gaps in the field. The review highlights the importance of recognizing and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Bilingual Education, Latin Americans, Cultural Pluralism
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Medina Riveros, Rosa Alejandra; Jose Botelho, Maria; Austin, Theresa; Parra Pérez, Diana Angélica – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2022
Our reflexive study responds to the need for learning about translanguaging and multimodality as entangled pedagogies in non-English-dominant contexts from teachers' perspectives. This conceptual-empirical article re-examines a yearlong ethnographic study which traced how a community of seven in-service English language teachers in Colombia and…
Descriptors: Translation, Code Switching (Language), Learning Modalities, Faculty Development
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Sotomayor, Carmen; Coloma, Carmen Julia; Chaf, Gabriela; Osorio, Gabriela; Jéldrez, Elvira – Research Papers in Education, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the importance that grammar has in the teaching of writing in the Hispanic American countries and Spain. To achieve this, the discussion that has taken place in these countries about the importance of sentence grammar in the teaching of writing is analysed. Three proposals for the contextualised teaching…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Sentences, Writing Processes
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Quique, Yina M.; Evans, William S.; Ortega-Llebaría, Marta; Zipse, Lauryn; Walsh Dickey, Michael – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Script training is a well-established treatment for aphasia, but its evidence comes almost exclusively from monolingual English speakers with aphasia. Furthermore, its active ingredients and profiles of people with aphasia (PWA) that respond to this treatment remain understudied. This study aimed to adapt a scripted-sentence learning…
Descriptors: Patients, Profiles, Spanish Speaking, Aphasia
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Escobar-Alméciga, Wilder Yesid – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
Education in Spain and Latin America has been experiencing an ever-increasing use of English as a medium of instruction at all levels and across curricula. Bringing the vast research-literature into a reflective dialogue is paramount to advancing the discipline and to refining English teaching practices. As such, this literature review…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Archila, Pablo Antonio; Molina, Jorge; Danies, Giovanna; Truscott de Mejía, Anne-Marie; Restrepo, Silvia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
As we begin the third decade of the twenty-first century, in countries where English is the second or foreign language, the goal of internationalization is causing a rise in university first language-English bilingual science courses. Even though bilingual written scientific argumentation (BWSA)--a twenty-first-century skill--is an essential…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Bilingualism, Scientific Literacy
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Claudia Patricia Gutiérrez; Estefanía Frías Epinayú – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
Coloniality in education and language policies continues to impact Indigenous communities in implicit and complex ways. In this article, we describe the case of Colombia where, like in many other countries in the Global South, educational policy messages are contradictory. While ethno-education policies purport to sustain Indigenous languages and…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Olaya-Mesa, Marian Lissett; Mora, Willian Alexander – HOW, 2023
Teacher´s beliefs and conceptions of teaching English are an important area for the professional development path of primary teachers. Giving primary teachers opportunities to grow professionally and support their learning belongs to the wide variety of practices that can be implemented to foster early education today. To do that, the Colombian…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Horton, Michelle – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2022
This case study examines how teachers preserve and foster the funds of knowledge students bring to school in the Palenque community of Colombia. Data was collected using the funds of knowledge Matrix instrument, open-ended questions, teacher interviews, and non-participant observations. An analysis of data was done using a domain analysis process,…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Teaching Methods, Measures (Individuals), Teacher Attitudes
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Carter, Beverly-Anne – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper draws on two research activities to discuss the role of research at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL) at The University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Established in 1997, the CLL introduced languages for all into this Caribbean higher education (HE) context. The CLL also introduced an expanded…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
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Orellana, Anymir; Arguello, Georgina; Kanzki-Veloso, Elda – Online Learning, 2020
Captioning of recorded videos is beneficial to many and a matter of compliance with accessibility regulations and guidelines. Like recorded captions, real-time captions can also be means to implement the Universal Design for Learning checkpoint to offer text-based alternatives to auditory information. A cost-effective solution to implement the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software, Public Speaking, Automation
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