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Download full textRubiela Cruz-Roa – HOW, 2024
This qualitative action research study explores six reading strategies to engage students in more dynamic reading through the implementation of workshops focused on the cross-curricular approach to develop critical reading skills among ninth graders at a public school. The study was conducted with 22 students selected, in the city of Manizales,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Content Area Reading, Reading Strategies, Workshops
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
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
Ochoa Alpala, Dayra Piedad; Medina Peña, Nieves – HOW, 2014
This article reports an action research that intended to study to what extent students shape their writing skill in English through the use of a virtual room. As the study, we randomly selected six ninth graders in high school from thirty two students at a Colombian private institution. Three instruments were used, namely, interviews, students'…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Writing Skills, Action Research, Grade 9
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
Aldana Gutiérrez, Yeraldine; Baquero Rodríguez, Mauro Jordan; Rivero Ortiz, Gustavo Adolfo; Romero García, Dora Cenaida – HOW, 2012
This article describes the pedagogical intervention developed in a public school as part of the research "Exploring Communications Practices through Facebook as a Mediatic Device", framed within the computer mediated communications field. Twelve ninth graders' communications practices were explored and addressed by means of multimodal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intervention, Social Media, Technology Uses in Education
