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Leonardo Alba-López – HOW, 2024
The correct use of collocations and prepositions plays an essential role in writing. Previous research has demonstrated that students, who master these lexical elements, have a better language awareness, improve their reading and listening comprehension, and are more creative when making a composition. However, little specific work has been done…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing (Composition), Form Classes (Languages), Academic Language
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Angela Patricia Velásquez-Hoyos; Luis Herney Villegas López – HOW, 2024
This reflective article examines the emerging tendencies in critical perspectives within English Language Teaching (ELT). The article begins by providing a brief historical overview of ELT's critical pedagogies and discussing its perspectives in the post-pandemic era. It highlights the need for critical approaches that address power dynamics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hernán Gabriel Pérez Buelvas – HOW, 2024
This research focuses on how designing, implementing, and evaluating didactic strategies and activities based on scaffolding with visualization and the use of graphic organizers guide the process of reading comprehension in an eighth-grade public school course placed at A1 level. The research methodology was framed as action research with a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Grade 8, Middle School Students
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Vahid Rahmani Doqaruni – HOW, 2024
Despite the growing body of studies on action research (AR) in second/foreign language (L2) education, little is known about teachers' beliefs about AR among different age groups. Hence, this study investigates whether L2 teachers' beliefs about AR vary by considering teachers' age. The Inventory on Teachers' Beliefs about Action Research (ITBAR)…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Age Groups, Action Research
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Angie Marroquin; Anna Carolina Peñaloza – HOW, 2024
Though language education and research have pushed back against traditional, hegemonic ways of teaching, they continue to exclude conversations on spirituality. Moreover, a deficit lens in language education perpetuates a focus on what needs to be improved rather than on our students' assets. In this pedagogical intervention, we begin by weaving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Francy Lorena García; Edgar Willian Jurado Soto – HOW, 2024
Silent reading frequently entails engaging the "inner voice," a phenomenon in which individuals sub-vocally articulate words in their minds. This inner voice is understood to stem from the internalization process, wherein external verbal speech transitions into internal dialogue. However, the mechanisms through which foreign language…
Descriptors: Inner Speech (Subvocal), Speed Reading, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension
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Flora Isabel Mandiola-Villalobos; Maria Angelica Inostroza-Macaya; Danisa Thamara Salinas-Carvajal – HOW, 2024
This study was based on an innovation project at the university level with English as a Foreign Language pre-service teachers. This experience was implemented with several language levels in different academic periods of the programme. The project aimed to apply a technological tool such as StoryboardThat, in contrast to the traditional…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Diego Ubaque-Casallas – HOW, 2024
This article reports on a series of narrative events extracted from an action research methodology that explores teaching practices and pedagogical experiences to foster well-being in English language student-teachers. Although the study adopted an action research methodology, it does not account for the implementation of the pedagogical process…
Descriptors: Well Being, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Second Language Instruction
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Leslie Werlinger B.; Maria-Jesus Inostroza A. – HOW, 2024
During the last decades, global interest in learning English as a foreign language has increased, encouraging countries to include it in school education. This trend was followed by the Chilean Ministry of Education, which suggests teaching English based on a communicative approach starting in early childhood education. To foster students'…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Preschool Children, Memory, Teaching Methods
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Luis F. Cisneros – HOW, 2024
Learning a foreign language incorporates cognitive, communicative, emotional, and social aspects. Some of these aspects have to do with the structure of the language being studied; some others deal with social and psychological issues that influence the environment where the learning process takes place. This reflection paper addresses various…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Processes, Psychological Patterns
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Rubiela 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
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Ana Gutiérrez-Rojas; Nayibe Rosado-Mendinueta – HOW, 2024
Listening comprehension is a crucial skill in English as a Foreign Language education, yet listening assessment still needs to be explored. This study aims to understand how listening is assessed in a Colombian private language institution and its potential connection to students' underperformance in listening proficiency tests. We characterize…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Case Studies, Scoring Rubrics, Language Tests
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Yaseen Ali Azi; Sami Abdullah Hamdi; Mohammed Ahmad Okasha – HOW, 2024
The task of verifying credible and original information is now more complicated, especially for undergraduate students. This study uses information literacy and discourse analysis to develop English as a foreign language learners' critical reading skills while verifying information on social media. A reading test including false news was used to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Discourse Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Reading Tests
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Pablo Vergara-Montes; Luzkarime Calle-Díaz – HOW, 2024
This study describes the factors that enhanced students' construction of arguments when participating in culturally infused discussions at an undergraduate English as a foreign language British Culture course. The research was conducted at a university in Northwestern Colombia. This paper presents a section of the results of a larger project whose…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Persuasive Discourse, Questioning Techniques
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William Ricardo Ortiz-Garcia; Zulma Carolina Navarrete-Villarraga – HOW, 2024
This paper reports the results of a qualitative action research study conducted with children from a private Colombian institution. This study aimed to analyze the learners' cognitive and knowledge outcomes measured according to the revised Bloom's taxonomy once content and language integrated learning was implemented. Data were gathered through…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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