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Guillaume Roux; Germana Carolina Soler Millán – Applied Linguistics, 2024
In its language policy and planning (LPP), Colombia offers ethnoeducation for ethnic groups, with Spanish as a second language, and for the protection/revitalization of native languages. However, these LPP measures are insufficiently implemented. Meanwhile, with regard to foreign languages, LPP have specifically advocated a Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, English, Native Language
Pablo Antonio Archila; Brigithe Tatiana Ortiz; Anne-Marie Truscott de Mejía; Jorge Molina – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: In November 2022, the commercial company, OpenAI, launched ChatGPT. Since then, university students have rapidly become regular users of this artificial intelligence (AI) platform. One reason for this is the powerful capability of this generative AI tool to produce textual content, which in many cases, is almost indistinguishable from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, English, Spanish
María-Paula Rodríguez-Rojas; Ana-María Ramírez-Segura; Pedro Valenzuela-Mora; Julien Dampuré; Fernando Riveros Munévar – SAGE Open, 2024
Critical thinking stands out as one of the most important cognitive abilities needed for effective adaptation to a knowledge-based society in the 21st century. Despite its significance, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the conceptual and methodological frameworks for measuring it. This study aimed to design and validate a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity
David C. Hill; Christy Gombay; Otto Sanchez; Bethel Woappi; Andrea S. Romero Vélez; Stuart Davidson; Emma Z. L. Richardson – Discover Education, 2022
The rapid adoption of online technologies to deliver postsecondary education amid the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential for online learning, as well as important equity gaps to be addressed. For over ten years, McMaster University has delivered graduate global health education through a blended-learning approach. In partnership with…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Second Languages
Ávila-Reyes, Natalia – London Review of Education, 2017
As texts enact historically situated ways of making knowledge, intertextual analysis through citation patterns can shed some light on a community's epistemologies. The present research seeks a deeper understanding of the theoretical trends, the influences, and the emerging disciplinary configuration of the writing studies community in Latin…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Network Analysis, Academic Discourse
Seeley, Janel; McAteer, Mary; Osorio Sánchez, César; Kenfield, Yuliana – Educational Action Research, 2019
This study employed phenomenological and semi-structured interviews as an action research approach, to explore participants' experiences around the Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy (The Assembly) following the Conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. We sought to promote the inclusion of the diverse…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Knowledge Management, Democracy, Action Research
Slabakova, Roumyana; Kempchinsky, Paula; Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2012
This experimental study tests the Interface Hypothesis by looking into processes at the syntax-discourse interface, teasing apart acquisition of syntactic, semantic and discourse knowledge. Adopting Lopez's (2009) pragmatic features [[plus or minus]a(naphor)] and [[plus or minus]c(ontrast)], which in combination account for the constructions of…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Syntax, Semantics, Spanish
Clinton, Amanda; Christo, Catherine; Shriberg, David – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2013
During the past 2 decades, many respective reading processes have been delineated, and much is now known about reading acquisition in children. Most of this research has been completed using English-dominant subjects. As such, the literature focuses on an opaque orthography and aspects of learning to read in this context. In this study, predictors…
Descriptors: Spanish, Phonological Awareness, Regression (Statistics), Emergent Literacy
Reflections on the Process of Bilingual Education in Latin America: A Perspective from Globalization
Joya, Magdalena; Cerón, Alejandra – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2013
This paper intends to explain how education can be understood as a process that involves the transmission of culture, knowledge, manners and values; meanwhile, globalization implies an evolving process of constructing a global system of languages. In this way, the relationship between the educational and economic systems can become stronger…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Global Approach, English
Lochmiller, Chad R.; Lucero, Audrey; Lester, Jessica Nina – Journal of Research in International Education, 2016
The International Baccalaureate (IB) has expanded in Latin America. Drawing from a larger multi-sited qualitative case study, we examined the challenges associated with the implementation of the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) in a Colombian and bilingual context. Findings highlight (1) the intersecting nature of challenges associated with the…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education
Hernández-Ocampo, Sonia Patricia; Vargas, Sonia Patricia – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2013
Spanish-speaking students constantly complain about the difficulty they have comprehending spoken English. It seems teachers do not often provide them with strategies to alleviate that. This article reports on a pedagogical experience carried out at a Colombian university to help pre-service teachers at an intermediate level of English to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking, English, English (Second Language)
Sandilands, Debra; Oliveri, Maria Elena; Zumbo, Bruno D.; Ercikan, Kadriye – International Journal of Testing, 2013
International large-scale assessments of achievement often have a large degree of differential item functioning (DIF) between countries, which can threaten score equivalence and reduce the validity of inferences based on comparisons of group performances. It is important to understand potential sources of DIF to improve the validity of future…
Descriptors: Validity, Measures (Individuals), International Studies, Foreign Countries
Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
I present here the results of a qualitative research study on the impact of a curriculum that connects learning events in Spanish and English in authentic communicative performances during its first year of use in a private school in a medium-size Colombian city. I did discourse analysis of interviews with participating teachers and class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Language Teachers
Ramírez Sarmiento, Albeiro Miguel Ángel – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2011
This article aims to establish the effects of masked priming by translation equivalents in Spanish-English bilinguals with a high-intermediate level of proficiency in their second language. Its findings serve as evidence to support the hypothesis that semantic representations mediate the mental association among non-cognates from a speaker's first…
Descriptors: Translation, Priming, Spanish, English