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Padilla De La Cerda, Fabián – HOW, 2016
This paper reports the process of designing and partially implementing and evaluating a content-based and genre-oriented syllabus with a group of ninth graders at a public school in Barranquilla, Colombia. The syllabus sought to promote reading strategies in order to improve learners' comprehension of natural science texts. The results of this…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Grade 9
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Ballesteros Muñoz, Liliana; Tutistar Jojoa, Silvana – HOW, 2014
This article outlines a study that explores the relationship between SMART goal setting (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based) and learning English in Colombia concerning a foreign language learners' self-efficacy beliefs in listening. The participants were seventh and ninth grade students of two schools in Bogotá, Colombia.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Beliefs, Listening Comprehension
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Cabezas Galicia, Luis Leonardo; Camacho Posada, María Fernanda; Florez Fernández, Leidy Milena – HOW, 2012
This article reports a case study conducted at a school in Bogotá. It was based on constructivist and poststructuralist frameworks that viewed gender positioning as a social construction in foreign language learning contexts (Baxter, 2003; Sunderland, 1992; Tannen, 1996). Aiming to understand how ninth grade gender positioning is constructed, and…
Descriptors: Males, Females, English (Second Language), Grade 9