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Tlazalo Tejeda, Ana Cristina; Basurto Santos, Nora M. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
The aim of this article is to inform on research intended to find out how pronunciation instruction of English as a foreign language was handled in the language classroom with elementary students and also understand if pronunciation instruction had an impact on students' confidence when using it. In order to do this, a qualitative case study was…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mosquera-Pérez, Jhon Eduardo; Losada-Rivas, Jhon Jairo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This paper reports a qualitative narrative study that explored the trajectories of English language teachers' identities before and after their participation in a master's program in English language teaching at a Colombian public university. After analyzing the data gathered through oral narratives and narrative interviews, results showed that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries
Muñoz, Ana Patricia; Palacio, Marcela; Escobar, Liliana – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
There is evidence that teachers' beliefs on teaching and learning exert an influence on the way they teach and assess learning, and on what students learn. Therefore, it is central that overt attention is devoted to the perceptions teachers have and how they influence teaching and learning. In this article we describe a study on teachers' beliefs…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), English Instruction
Díaz Larenas, Claudio – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This qualitative study aims at identifying the disciplinary strategies claimed to be used by a group of five secondary classroom teachers of English in public or semi-public schools in Chile. To conduct this research, a semi-structured interview was applied to participants. The data were analyzed using the principles of semantic content analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, English Teachers, English (Second Language)
Romero, Gloria – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
This paper reports a small section of a larger study that uses a mixed-methods approach to examine participation experiences of novice teachers of English in Chile beginning their careers in nonharmonic public, semiprivate, and private school communities. Drawing on Wenger's framework of communities of practice, this paper reveals that novice…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Language Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Second Language Learning
Guerrero-Nieto, Carmen Helena; Quintero, Alvaro – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
This paper aims at showing how a bottom-up approach of the study of educational policies can shed some light on how elementary school teachers deal with educational policies to make them work. This is a partial report on a larger focus group study conducted in Bogotá, Colombia, where a group of elementary school teachers shared their opinions…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Aristizábal-Jiménez, Yesika – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This paper reports an action-research study aimed at exploring the benefits of the critical analysis of YouTubers' content through the empowerment spiral model to foster students' talk as performance. Twenty 11th-grade students shared alternative messages related to social issues based on content analysis and reflections. Data were collected via…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Action Research
Nayernia, Akram; Nosrati, Rana; Mohebbi, Hassan – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This mixed-methods study explores the factors contributing to the language teachers' effectiveness in the context of English as a foreign language. Through a systematic review of the literature, six main factors were extracted: assessment literacy, content and pedagogical content knowledge, experience, oral proficiency, personality type, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Second Language Learning
Vieira, Flávia – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
Language teacher education programmes can promote autonomy-oriented change when they are based on a transformative rationale regarding learner and teacher development. This involves adopting an experience-based approach whereby dominant ideas and practices are problematized and opportunities are provided for teachers to learn about, experience,…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Vaca Torres, Ady Marcela; Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
This research study examined how a group of ninth graders enhanced the speaking skill in an English as a foreign language classroom through project-based learning. Data about the experience were collected through field notes, transcripts of learners' oral performance, and one interview. Grounded theory was implemented for data analysis, out of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Calle Díaz, Luzkarime – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
The reconfiguration of geographical and cultural boundaries has caused a growing concern among countries in regard to raising awareness of the importance of educating people to become "citizens of the world." The language classroom seems to be the ideal place to incorporate the teaching and learning of global citizenship education, given…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Cultural Awareness
Reyes-Cruz, Maria del Rosario; Murrieta-Loyo, Griselda; Perales-Escudero, Moisés Damián – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This paper examines the research self-efficacy beliefs, research motivation, and perceptions of research importance and research obstacles of 100 professors and lecturers of foreign languages at three Mexican universities. Survey results show that faculty hold moderate to high research self-efficacy beliefs, are highly motivated to conduct…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Nava Gómez, Guadalupe Nancy; García, Hilda – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This study focused on investigating whether the teachers' geographical distribution influences their attitudes towards their students' use of code switching. The study was guided by the following research question: Are there differences between teachers' opinions of the north elementary schools and teachers' opinions of the south elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Code Switching (Language), Elementary School Students
Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
The emergence of English as the international language of communication has increased the attention and concern given its teaching and learning. This survey-based study explores the attitudes of Spanish practitioners and undergraduate students towards English as the vehicular language in the field of medicine and towards Medical Electronic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Surveys
Cruz Arcila, Ferney – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
Stemming from a study of what it is like to teach English in rural Colombia considering both English language teaching policy and social challenges of these contexts, this paper explores different locally grounded English language teaching practices. Through the analysis of teachers' narratives and field observations, four examples of such…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Creative Teaching