Papers by Camilo Domínguez
Journal of Media Literacy Education
How Journal, Oct 15, 2014
How Journal, Oct 15, 2014
Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2019
Today’s media spectacle is shaping societies, cultures, and even our own values and identities at... more Today’s media spectacle is shaping societies, cultures, and even our own values and identities at a global scale. Even though media can be used to promote education, democratic self-expression, and social progress, it is often used to perpetuate social injustices, prejudice, and violence. Media texts are exponentially displayed in physical and virtual public spaces and their impact on humanity is unimaginable. Teachers of all fields face the challenge and the responsibility to educate sensitive humans who are able to critically consume or produce media messages. English language teachers are no exception. In this paper, the author describes a qualitative research study conducted by a teacher educator exploring how a group of Colombian pre-service English teachers developed critical awareness of media as they critically deconstructed advertisements displayed in the public spaces of their rather rural communities. Implications for teacher education emerging from this study and new questions for further research will be presented.
While teaching English as a second language isn't often a focus of discussions for media literacy... more While teaching English as a second language isn't often a focus of discussions for media literacy, the number of ESL students alone should argue for more emphasis and visibility for this educational imperative.
Traditionally, at universities, English as a foreign language instructors have used a series of a... more Traditionally, at universities, English as a foreign language instructors have used a series of approaches to teach students how to write academic texts in English from both teacher preparation and regular programs. In spite of this, students continue to have problems writing the academic texts required of them in the different courses. Concerned with this issue, a group of English as a Foreign Language writing instructors from a Teacher Education Program in Medellín engaged in the study of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The purpose of this article is to report the insights that one of these instructors gained once he began using these theories to analyze a narrative text produced by one of the students in his class.
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Papers by Camilo Domínguez