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Teachers' Publications
In this section you will find all the information concerning the research done by our faculty at the School Languages.
Our professors’ scholastic interests are multifarious. Topics vary from the use of ICT’s in education, critical discourse analysis, second language literacy and English as an international language to reading and writing skills and learning styles.
School Literacy Practices Closer to Home: the New Challenge of Literacy Learning
Luz Mary Quintero
JOURNAL: Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
DATE: Number 8 • September 2006
UNIVERSITY: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.
ABSTRACT:
Literacy learning/teaching can be an unforgettable experience when it is a joint effort between school and home. There are family literacy practices and traditions that can bring about amazing outcomes when they are conjugated with school literacy activities. This article attempts to suggest some possible ways for teachers and parents to work collaboratively to make the journey of becoming literate a much more rewarding path for both children and teachers. The perspectives presented here are based on experiences that some teachers have lived by working with parents, and on some theoretical perspectives. It is an invitation for us, teachers, to reflect upon our literacy practices we promote in our classrooms and think of possible alternatives to make children find reading and writing a meaningful and enjoyable route.
Improving Students’ Reading Skills through the Use of the WFR Activities
Tatiana Mikhailova
JOURNAL: How, A Colombian Journal for Teachers of English.
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Vol 15, No 1 (2008)
UNIVERSITY: Universidad Industrial de Santander
ABSTRACT:
This article entitled Improving Students’ Reading Skills through the Use of the WFR Activities is just a very short description of an action research carried out in a public school in Bucaramanga. It is related to the specific pre-reading materials and activities that can be used in an EFL classroom in order to increase and improve learners’ pre-reading and reading skills. This article intends to contribute the general observations and results of the research so every EFL teacher can get familiar with some new ideas and, possibly, conceptions about the creative use of the pre-reading materials and activities in EFL classrooms.
Blogging: A way to foster EFL writing
Luz Mary Quintero
JOURNAL: Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
DATE OF PLUBICATION: Núm. 10, octubre, 2008
UNIVERSITY: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
ABSTRACT:
This article reports on the results of an action-research project carried out with a group of first year university students from an “English Program” at a public university in Bogotá. The project aimed to gain insights into EFL writing and to analyze the role that feedback played in the process of writing. The experience was implemented through the interaction of two groups of students, one from Colombia and the other from Canada, who interacted regularly by means of using blogs. Students were provided with three different spaces: a personal blog in which they wrote about topics of personal interest, a group blog that allowed students to work and write cooperatively, and a debate blog that required the use of argumentative writing. The findings of this research suggest that EFL writing is greatly developed when students feel part of a community to interact with and to share similar interests and language learning goals which are mediated, in this case, by technology. It was also found that by writing in blogs students not only developed their writing but more importantly, students have the possibility to portray and show their own selves through the written pieces they post. Finally, the feedback was found to be beneficial in EFL writing as it was a crucial ingredient that gave student-writers tools to scaffold in the writing process.
The Virtual Forum as an Alternative Way to Enhance Foreign Language Learning*
Luz Mary Quintero (Amparo Clavijo Olarte**, Nicolas Alexander Hine***)
JOURNAL: PROFILE 9
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 21/04/2008
UNIVERSITY: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas – Sede Macarena A, Colombia
ABSTRACT:
A web-based story sharing forum has been established to provide students in Bogotá, Colombia, New Brunswick, Canada and Dundee, Scotland with the opportunity to exchange cross-cultural stories as a complement to the regular ELT Curriculum. This paper will describe the process through which the exchange experience was established and the progress achieved by the group of Colombian students in their regular interaction through blogs, theme-based wikis, social forums and online debates. The teaching practices utilized in the forum have fostered the creation of communities of interest and practice among teachers and students in the forum. Early results suggest that this innovative way of implementing the ELT curriculum has promoted student involvement and language development through the use of ICTs.
Estilos De Aprendizaje Aplicados A Las Aulas Virtuales De Lengua Extranjera
Wilmar Darío Macías Romero
JOURNAL: Rastros Rostros (Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia)
DATE: Vol. 17, Núm. 31, Enero-Diciembre (2015)
UNIVERSITY: Universidad cooperativa de Colombia.
ABSTRACT:
El objetivo del presente artículo es proponer un modelo de aula virtual para la enseñanza de lengua extranjera para estudiantes de primer semestre de una universidad privada, en Bucaramanga, Colombia. Metodología: Se busca que dicha aula responda a la filosofía pedagógica de la institución, a la propuesta metodológica comunicativa propia de la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera, y que a su vez atienda a los estilos de aprendizaje de los estudiantes. Resultados: 55 aprendices de lengua de primer nivel de inglés respondieron el test de Felder y Silverman para identificar los estilos de aprendizaje dominantes, determinando así que la mayoría de ellos son aprendices visuales, activos, sensoriales y secuenciales. Posteriormente se procedió a identificar las herramientas disponibles en la plataforma MOODLE y cómo cada una de ellas podía satisfacer de manera puntual las necesidades de los aprendices. Conclusiones: Finalmente, se propuso un modelo de aula virtual usando los recursos disponibles en la plataforma y teniendo en cuenta los estilos de aprendizaje de los estudiantes.
English as an International Language: A Review of the Literature
Raúl Enrique García
JOURNAL: Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
DATE: Vol.15 no.1 Bogotá Jan./June 2013
UNIVERSITY: Universidad Industrial de Santander
ABSTRACT:
This article critically reviews and discusses English as an International Language (EIL) as an alternative to the traditional models of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL). The author suggests that the model of EIL is an alternative worth- discussing in the Colombian context. The article is divided into four different sections: a) EIL, ownership of English and native-speakerism, b) attitudes towards EIL, c) EIL described: What does it look like? and d) EIL and English teaching. The review of the literature evidences that there are still many heated debates on the sociocultural aspect of EIL, that one of the greatest challenges of EIL is the attitudes of English teachers and speakers towards the use and legitimization of non-standard varieties, that there is still much to be done in terms of the description of EIL and that adopting an EIL perspective would imply transforming the ways English is taught. The article concludes with an invitation to the ELT community to initiate the discussion of the potential application of EIL in the Colombian context.
The socio-discursive phenomenon of legitimization in the coverage of the campaigns of Carlos Gaviria and Alvaro Uribe during the 2006 presidential elections.
Raúl Enrique García; María Juliana Quintero Vélez
JOURNAL: FOLIOS
TITLE: El Fenómeno sociodiscursivo de legitimación en el cubrimiento de las campañas de Carlos Gaviria y Álvaro Uribe durante las elecciones presidenciales del año 2006
The socio-discursive phenomenon of legitimisation in the coverage of the campaigns of Carlos Gaviria and Alvaro Uribe during the 2006 presidential elections
DATE: • Segunda época • N.o 38 • Segundo semestre de 2013
UNIVERSITY: Universidad Industrial de Santander
ABSTRACT:
This article examines how the daily newspaper El Tiempo represented the campaigns of the candidates Alvaro Uribe and Carlos Gaviria in the 2006 Colombian presidential election. In particular, this study analyses strategies such as the socio-discursive phenomenon of legitimisation, proposed by Pardo (2007), which manifests itself in the newspaper’s representation of the candidates and their campaigns during the week before the election. By means of a comparative analysis of the linguistic processes of authorisation, evaluation and mitigation, and their correlation with three concepts in political science such as charismatic authority (Weber, 1983), Bonapartism (Moncayo, 2004) and legitimacy (Lipset, 1981), conclusions are reached regarding the stance adopted by the newspaper in terms of the two candidates. It is concluded that El Tiempo favoured Uribe’s campaign because of the charismatic representation of his political figure and the legitimisation of his political project. In contrast, the newspaper made the figure of Carlos Gaviria invisible and represented his project as contrary to the interests of the majority of the country.
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