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Education for Bilingualism: Connecting Spanish and English from the Curriculum, into the Classroom, and Beyond (Educación para el bilingüismo: español e inglés conectados desde el currículo hasta el salón de clase, y más allá)
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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
Language Learning Shifts and Attitudes towards Language Learning in an Online Tandem Program for Beginner Writers
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Tolosa, Constanza; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía; Guevara, Diana Carolina – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
We present findings of a project that investigated the potential of an online tandem program to enhance the foreign language learning of two groups of school-aged beginner learners, one learning English in Colombia and the other learning Spanish in New Zealand. We assessed the impact of the project on students' learning with a free writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Online Peer Feedback between Colombian and New Zealand FL Beginners: A Comparison and Lessons Learned (Retroalimentación virtual de pares entre aprendices principiantes de lengua de Colombia y Nueva Zelanda: una comparación y lecciones aprendidas)
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Tolosa, Constanza; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía; Alfonso, Tania – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
We report on an exploratory study comparing the performance as online tutors of two groups of beginner eleven-year-old students of English in Colombia and Spanish in New Zealand. The native speaker students of the foreign language the others were learning corrected paragraphs written by their peers. The feedback provided by each group of tutors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Linguistic Input, Peer Relationship