8 articles in this issue
Carlo Granados-Beltrán
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Alexander Ramírez
This paper presents the results of an Action-Research cycle conducted at Universidad del Valle, which aimed at fostering learner autonomy in freshmen from a foreign languages program, within an English course. The study established the freshmen’s entrance... see more
Robert Coates, Judith Gorham, Richard Nicholas
Recent neurological breakthroughs in our understanding of the Critical Period Hypothesis and prosody may suggest strategies on how phonics instruction could improve L2 language learning and in particular phoneme/grapheme decoding. We therefore conducted a... see more
Carol Andrea García Gutiérrez, Norma Constanza Durán Narváez
Individuals’ self-efficacy beliefs determine the ways they perform in any domain, since they reflect the extent to which people feel capable to achieve certain accomplishments Bandura (1997). This paper describes how a group of intermediate school student... see more
Christian Christian Fallas Escobar, Lindsay Chaves Fernández
In EFL composition courses, teaching and learning normally orbit around norms of unity, coherence, support, and sentence skills that L2 learners are expected to comply with, at the expense of opportunities to develop voice. Against this backdrop, we resol... see more
Edgar Emmanuell García-Ponce, Irasema Mora-Pablo
Extensive research literature suggests that corrective feedback (CF), when effective, has a beneficial impact on the development of learners’ interlanguage. This is because CF provides learners with language data concerning the correctness of their uttera... see more
Nancy Yolanda Bautista Pérez
This article reports an action research project carried out with a group of 24 undergraduate students in a private university in Ibagué, Colombia. The study aimed to characterize the development of university students’ sociocultural skills, to analyze the... see more
Laura Carreño Bolívar, Luz Stella Hernandez Ortiz
The present article reports the results of a qualitative research study conducted at a higher education institution in Bogotá Colombia. The study aimed at examining the lesson planning practices conducted by English language teachers at the proficiency pr... see more