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A Basis for the Design of a Curriculum Incorporating Music and Drama in Children's English Language Instruction
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Rodríguez-Bonces, Monica – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
This article presents the foundations to design a curriculum that integrates music and drama as strategies for the teaching of English as a foreign language. Besides promoting interdisciplinarity, this curriculum seeks to improve the language level of those children attending continuing educational programs at any higher education institution. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
The Role of Collaborative Work in the Development of Elementary Students' Writing Skills (El papel del trabajo colaborativo en el desarrollo de las habilidades de escritura de estudiantes de primaria)
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Yate González,Yuly Yinneth; Saenz, Luis Fernando; Bermeo, Johanna Alejandra; Castañeda Chaves, Andrés Fernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2013
In this article we report the findings of a two-phase action research study focused on the role of collaborative work in the development of elementary students' writing skills at a Colombian school. This was decided after having identified the students' difficulties in the English classes related to word transfer, literal translation, weak…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Skill Development
The Role That Socioaffective Practices Play in Third Graders' Autonomous Learning (El papel de las prácticas socioafectivas en el aprendizaje autónomo de estudiantes de tercer grado)
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Perdomo Toro, Jhonatan; Rico González, Ángela Milena; Huepa Salcedo, Nury Catherine – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
In this article we describe and analyze how autonomous learning emerges in third graders' socioaffective practices as reconstructed in written narratives. Results were obtained by analyzing and reflecting on classroom observation, interviews and written narratives done by the students which let us appreciate different behaviors and reactions the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Learning, Observation
Authentic Oral Interaction in the EFL Class: What It Means, What It Does Not (La interacción oral auténtica en la clase de inglés: lo que significa y lo que no)
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HerazoRivera, José David – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2010
The communicative approach in EFL education has generated a concern for the development of communication in the foreign language classroom within which the promotion of oral interaction is usually paramount. However, what constitutes authentic oral interaction is sometimes not clearly understood and some of the activities that take place in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Interaction