International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
An analysis of teachers' profiles and their influence on the curriculum implementation of Eng... more An analysis of teachers' profiles and their influence on the curriculum implementation of English taught as a foreign language (EFL) constitutes the crux of the study. Teachers' profiles provide a gauge of their capability in curriculum implementation. Policies have been conceptualised to facilitate the seamless and smooth interaction between the teacher's role and task, and to ensure that the curriculum is implemented according to its goals and objectives. However, when teachers' profiles do not meet the requirements, and the policies do not facilitate the teachers' task, challenges arise that impact the teaching–learning process. Thus, this study analysed teachers’ profiles and the influence of these profiles on teachers’ curriculum implementation. The survey design captured 57 EFL teachers' profiles and their beliefs and perceptions about implemented policies. The findings reveal that most of these teachers had an intermediate proficiency level and more th...
Resumen: El propósito de este artículo es analizar cómo los países dominantes ejercen su poder so... more Resumen: El propósito de este artículo es analizar cómo los países dominantes ejercen su poder sobre los países dominados, y cómo esto afecta al sector educativo de estos últimos países. Este fenómeno se explica mediante las relaciones de poder y dominio existentes entre Estados Unidos y Ecuador en los últimos treinta años. A través de la óptica de la teoría de la reproducción social, la teoría de la resistencia, y la teoría crítica, se espera que este artículo provea de información necesaria para sensibilizar a las personas sobre el tema de relaciones asimétricas de poder. Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present an account of how dominant countries exert their power over dominated countries and how their influence is reflected in the education sector of dominated countries. To explain this phenomenon the relations between the United States (USA) and Ecuador in the last 30 years are reviewed. Using as looking glass the social reproduction theory, resistance theory, and c...
In order to improve the pre-service formation in Ecuador, the government created an education sta... more In order to improve the pre-service formation in Ecuador, the government created an education standardized curriculum to be used for all Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) offering education undergraduate programs. Unfortunately, when designing this curriculum, curriculum developers did not consider the particularities of all different pre-service programs existing in the country, for instance, English language teaching and focused more on primary education. This lack of consideration for different education undergraduate programs resulted in difficulties in adopting the standardized curriculum in other specializations. This research presents the different variations existing among the English language teaching curricula which resulted from the attempts to adopt the standardized curriculum in English language teaching pre-service formation; as well as the challenges and difficulties that curriculum developers faced during this process. Using a mixed-methods research methodology,...
Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis... more Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis on meaning-focused language instruction. In order to compare the effectiveness of the strategies of metalinguistic and recast feedback on student uptake during oral interactions, an eight-week non-experimental study was conducted. This study comprised thirty participants distributed in two classes. One group of 16 students was exposed to metalinguistic feedback and the other group of 14 students to recast. The selected students were aged from 18 to 20 year-old and were attending the eighth course of the English Foreign Language Program in a public university in Ecuador for one semester. To compare the effectiveness of the two aforementioned feedback strategies, four target structures were adopted: omission of subject, auxiliary use in questions, subject-verb agreement, and reported statements. The structures emerged from a survey which was administered to a sample of EFL teachers from t...
Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
This study deviates from the standard view of template-based training courses that have dominated... more This study deviates from the standard view of template-based training courses that have dominated the experience of in-service English teachers in Ecuador. Its purpose is to underscore the contextualization of training modules as a strategic method for duplicating and scaling up multi-level teacher training to sustain their knowledge and skills. The impact is assessed through a three-level survey administered to 394 teachers from three provinces. The results suggest that the influence of class size and the adaptability and replicability of training are factors that influence the effectiveness and sustainability of an English as a foreign language program. The study highlights the crucial role of collaboration that facilitates collective efforts to contextualize training to achieve profound insight related to classroom practices.
This study looks at how Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is implemented in Ecuadorian univer... more This study looks at how Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is implemented in Ecuadorian universities through analysis of teaching resources that teachers use in classes. A survey was conducted through the administration of a questionnaire. A total of 65 teachers responded to the survey. The results indicated that in developing productive skills, group-oriented activities such as pair-and-share scheme and role-plays are frequently conducted, and the use of worksheets, translator applications and audio materials were often used in developing students’ receptive skills. Teachers did not often use resources on pronunciation activities, direction-oriented tasks and translation using Spanish. Analysis of frequently used resources showed that teachers tried to develop students’ communicative competence, one of the core principles of CLT, however, most of these resources were not teacher-made but support materials of textbooks produced by publishing houses abroad. Too much dependence on...
In 2010, Article 124 of the new Ecuadorian Higher Education Law stipulated that university studen... more In 2010, Article 124 of the new Ecuadorian Higher Education Law stipulated that university students need to master a foreign language as a requirement for graduation. Subsequent regulations specified that this requirement had to be a B1 level, based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). To identify the responses, challenges and tensions that universities experienced in complying with the requirements of Article 124, an explanatory sequential mixed methods study was conducted. This comprised a survey that was administered to language centre Directors, EFL teachers and EFL students in 14 universities located in 10 different cities in the country, in-depth interviews conducted with teachers, and focus group interviews with students from 3 universities. Results of this research showed that responses of participating universities focused mainly on their physical and information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure development, and less on pedagogy and manage...
In 2020, the entire world experienced a pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. This pandemic drew... more In 2020, the entire world experienced a pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. This pandemic drew most of the entire world population to confinement, causing dramatic changes in most people’s everyday activities, for instance, education. Most countries modified their educational systems and moved from a face to face education to an online mode. By using a survey design, this study aims to describe the online teaching practices of 51 language teachers working at the language center of a university. Results show that language instructors working in this institution did not receive clear instructions on how to move from face to face to an online mode effectively. Additionally, results show that they have limited understanding of online education, a lack of a proper online education training among language teachers, and limited knowledge of how to properly integrate technological tools into an online mode.
espanolEl proposito de este articulo es analizar como los paises dominantes ejercen su poder sobr... more espanolEl proposito de este articulo es analizar como los paises dominantes ejercen su poder sobre los paises dominados,y como esto afecta al sector educativo de estos ultimos paises. Este fenomeno se explica mediante las relaciones de poder ydominio existentes entre Estados Unidos y Ecuador en los ultimos treinta anos. A traves de la optica de la teoria de lareproduccion social, la teoria de la resistencia, y la teoria critica, se espera que este articulo provea de informacion necesariapara sensibilizar a las personas sobre el tema de relaciones asimetricas de poder. EnglishThe purpose of this article is to present an account of how dominant countries exert their power over dominatedcountries and how their influence is reflected in the education sector of dominated countries. To explain this phenomenon therelations between the United States (USA) and Ecuador in the last 30 years are reviewed. Using as looking glass the socialreproduction theory, resistance theory, and critical theo...
El turismo comunitario en el Ecuador es una actividad reconocida y regulada legalmente. Estas reg... more El turismo comunitario en el Ecuador es una actividad reconocida y regulada legalmente. Estas regulaciones también establecen las actividades y el tipo de capacitación con las que deben contar las comunidades indígenas o rurales que han tenido la iniciativa por emprender en este sector para garantizar la calidad de los servicios turísticos ofertados. El requisito de capacitación y formación se vuelve problemático para los miembros de los emprendimientos comunitarios por diferentes razones, por ejemplo: capacitadores con conocimientos limitados de la comunidad, capacitadores que no poseen las herramientas pedagógicas y metodológicas necesarias para motivar una participación activa de las personas asistentes a las capacitaciones y contenidos de aprendizaje que sean pertinentes con el contexto de la comunidad. Por este motivo se propone un modelo de co-capacitación de los miembros de la comunidad en el que con el soporte de un facilitador, y utilizando una metodología didáctica basa...
Los pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas han sufrido a lo largo de la historia procesos de discrimi... more Los pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas han sufrido a lo largo de la historia procesos de discriminación y exclusión sistemática. A pesar de que han existido movimientos y luchas sociales que han buscado la reivindicación de los derechos de estos pueblos y nacionalidades, en muchos países y particularmente en el Ecuador, ha sido una tarea difícil lograr la erradicación por completo la discriminación y exclusión indígena. La constitución del Ecuador, aparte de garantizar el respeto a los pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas, también garantiza el respeto a la naturaleza. Sin embargo, en situaciones en las cuales la inclusión y desarrollo de los indígenas depende de algún grado de afectación a la naturaleza, ¿a qué aspecto se debería dar prioridad? El presente estudio presenta una reflexión sobre estos dos aspectos y la influencia que estos tienen para alcanzar el buen vivir. Palabras clave: Buen vivir, estudios indígenas, políticas públicas, medio ambiente
Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis... more Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis on meaning-focused language instruction. In order to compare the effectiveness of the strategies of Metalinguistic and Recast feedback in student uptake during oral interactions, an eight-week quasi experimental study was conducted. This study comprised thirty participants distributed in two classes. One group of 16 students was exposed to metalinguistic feedback and the other group of 14 students to recast. Throughout the study students remained constant in each group, this means they were not mixed. The selected students were aged from 18 to 20 year-old and they were attending the Eighth course of the English Foreign Language Program in ESPE [Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas] during the semester October 2015 to February 2016. To compare the effectiveness of the two aforementioned feedback strategies, four target structures were adopted, these were: omission of subject, auxiliary us...
This book is a product of the year-long project, “Building Inclusive EFL Teacher Training Network... more This book is a product of the year-long project, “Building Inclusive EFL Teacher Training Networks”, a winning project of the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) which was hosted by the United States Department of State in 2017. The Project was selected out of 1,014 submissions from 125 coun- tries and was one of the two projects from Ecuador which was selected to promote inclusion, encourage professional mobility among teachers and mitigate the lack of English teachers in public schools in the provinces of Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago (Zone 6).
Artículo de investigación Students´ perceptions towards learning English online: An exploratory s... more Artículo de investigación Students´ perceptions towards learning English online: An exploratory study at a Language Centre of an Ecuadorian University Percepciones de los estudiantes sobre el aprendizaje del inglés en línea: Un estudio exploratorio en un centro de idiomas de una Universidad Ecuatoriana Percepção dos estudantes sobre o aprendizado de inglês na linha: Um estúdio explorador no Centro de Idiomas de uma universidade ecológica
Manuscrito recibido el: 22 de marzo de 2017 Aprobado tras revisión el: 8 de junio de 2017 RESUMEN... more Manuscrito recibido el: 22 de marzo de 2017 Aprobado tras revisión el: 8 de junio de 2017 RESUMEN Este estudio exploratorio se realizó en un curso de Inglés como Lengua Extranjera (EFL) en una Institución de Educación Superior en Ecuador. El objetivo fue investigar si la retroalimentación correctiva (CF) puede mejorar la precisión gramatical en las interacciones orales de los estudiantes y qué tipo de CF es más efectiva para producir enunciados correctamente construidos. El estudio de 18 semanas involucró a veintiocho participantes distribuidos en dos clases. Cada clase recibió un CF específico; así, el grupo 1 metalingüístico y el grupo 2 reformulación. Los resultados de una serie de pruebas consecutivas (9) revelaron que la provisión de los dos tipos de CF condujo a corregir significativamente los enunciados producidos por los estudiantes en estructuras lingüísticas específicas. El notable desempeño del grupo de estudiantes con los que se practicó el CF metalingüístico indicó la efectividad de éste sobre el CF de reformulación. Los hallazgos de este estudio sugieren que los profesores de idiomas deben utilizar más la retroalimentación metalingüística para el tratamiento de los errores de los estudiantes de EFL cuando se interactúa oralmente. ABSTRACT This exploratory study was carried out in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom at a Higher Education Institution in Ecuador. The objective was to investigate whether corrective feedback (CF) can improve grammatical accuracy in students' oral interactions and what type of CF is most effective in producing correctly constructed statements. The 18-week study involved twenty-eight participants in two classes. Each class received a Docencia EFL Teachers' Corrective Feedback and Its Effect On Learners' Error Repair in Speaking I 97 AXIOMA-Revista Científica de Investigación, Docencia y Proyección Social Todos los derechos reservados specific CF, thus, the group 1 metalinguistic and the group 2 reformulation. The results of a series of consecutive tests (9) revealed that the provision of the two types of CF led to a significant correction of statements produced by students in specific linguistic structures. The remarkable performance of the group of students with whom the metalinguistic CF was practiced indicated the effectiveness of this one on the CF of reformulation. The findings of this study suggest that language teachers should use more metalinguistic feedback for the treatment of EFL students' errors when interacting orally.
Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis... more Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis on meaning-focused language instruction. In order to compare the effectiveness of the strategies of metalinguistic and recast feedback on student uptake during oral interactions, an eight-week non-experimental study was conducted. This study comprised thirty participants distributed in two classes. One group of 16 students was exposed to metalinguistic feedback and the other group of 14 students to recast. The selected students were aged from 18 to 20 year-old and were attending the eighth course of the English Foreign Language Program in a public university in Ecuador for one semester. To compare the effectiveness of the two aforementioned feedback strategies, four target structures were adopted: omission of subject, auxiliary use in questions, subject-verb agreement, and reported statements. The structures emerged from a survey which was administered to a sample of EFL teachers from the Language Center of the university. The findings of the study revealed that learners who were exposed to metalinguistic feedback outperformed their counterparts who were exposed to recast feedback.
International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
An analysis of teachers' profiles and their influence on the curriculum implementation of Eng... more An analysis of teachers' profiles and their influence on the curriculum implementation of English taught as a foreign language (EFL) constitutes the crux of the study. Teachers' profiles provide a gauge of their capability in curriculum implementation. Policies have been conceptualised to facilitate the seamless and smooth interaction between the teacher's role and task, and to ensure that the curriculum is implemented according to its goals and objectives. However, when teachers' profiles do not meet the requirements, and the policies do not facilitate the teachers' task, challenges arise that impact the teaching–learning process. Thus, this study analysed teachers’ profiles and the influence of these profiles on teachers’ curriculum implementation. The survey design captured 57 EFL teachers' profiles and their beliefs and perceptions about implemented policies. The findings reveal that most of these teachers had an intermediate proficiency level and more th...
Resumen: El propósito de este artículo es analizar cómo los países dominantes ejercen su poder so... more Resumen: El propósito de este artículo es analizar cómo los países dominantes ejercen su poder sobre los países dominados, y cómo esto afecta al sector educativo de estos últimos países. Este fenómeno se explica mediante las relaciones de poder y dominio existentes entre Estados Unidos y Ecuador en los últimos treinta años. A través de la óptica de la teoría de la reproducción social, la teoría de la resistencia, y la teoría crítica, se espera que este artículo provea de información necesaria para sensibilizar a las personas sobre el tema de relaciones asimétricas de poder. Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present an account of how dominant countries exert their power over dominated countries and how their influence is reflected in the education sector of dominated countries. To explain this phenomenon the relations between the United States (USA) and Ecuador in the last 30 years are reviewed. Using as looking glass the social reproduction theory, resistance theory, and c...
In order to improve the pre-service formation in Ecuador, the government created an education sta... more In order to improve the pre-service formation in Ecuador, the government created an education standardized curriculum to be used for all Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) offering education undergraduate programs. Unfortunately, when designing this curriculum, curriculum developers did not consider the particularities of all different pre-service programs existing in the country, for instance, English language teaching and focused more on primary education. This lack of consideration for different education undergraduate programs resulted in difficulties in adopting the standardized curriculum in other specializations. This research presents the different variations existing among the English language teaching curricula which resulted from the attempts to adopt the standardized curriculum in English language teaching pre-service formation; as well as the challenges and difficulties that curriculum developers faced during this process. Using a mixed-methods research methodology,...
Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis... more Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis on meaning-focused language instruction. In order to compare the effectiveness of the strategies of metalinguistic and recast feedback on student uptake during oral interactions, an eight-week non-experimental study was conducted. This study comprised thirty participants distributed in two classes. One group of 16 students was exposed to metalinguistic feedback and the other group of 14 students to recast. The selected students were aged from 18 to 20 year-old and were attending the eighth course of the English Foreign Language Program in a public university in Ecuador for one semester. To compare the effectiveness of the two aforementioned feedback strategies, four target structures were adopted: omission of subject, auxiliary use in questions, subject-verb agreement, and reported statements. The structures emerged from a survey which was administered to a sample of EFL teachers from t...
Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
This study deviates from the standard view of template-based training courses that have dominated... more This study deviates from the standard view of template-based training courses that have dominated the experience of in-service English teachers in Ecuador. Its purpose is to underscore the contextualization of training modules as a strategic method for duplicating and scaling up multi-level teacher training to sustain their knowledge and skills. The impact is assessed through a three-level survey administered to 394 teachers from three provinces. The results suggest that the influence of class size and the adaptability and replicability of training are factors that influence the effectiveness and sustainability of an English as a foreign language program. The study highlights the crucial role of collaboration that facilitates collective efforts to contextualize training to achieve profound insight related to classroom practices.
This study looks at how Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is implemented in Ecuadorian univer... more This study looks at how Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is implemented in Ecuadorian universities through analysis of teaching resources that teachers use in classes. A survey was conducted through the administration of a questionnaire. A total of 65 teachers responded to the survey. The results indicated that in developing productive skills, group-oriented activities such as pair-and-share scheme and role-plays are frequently conducted, and the use of worksheets, translator applications and audio materials were often used in developing students’ receptive skills. Teachers did not often use resources on pronunciation activities, direction-oriented tasks and translation using Spanish. Analysis of frequently used resources showed that teachers tried to develop students’ communicative competence, one of the core principles of CLT, however, most of these resources were not teacher-made but support materials of textbooks produced by publishing houses abroad. Too much dependence on...
In 2010, Article 124 of the new Ecuadorian Higher Education Law stipulated that university studen... more In 2010, Article 124 of the new Ecuadorian Higher Education Law stipulated that university students need to master a foreign language as a requirement for graduation. Subsequent regulations specified that this requirement had to be a B1 level, based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). To identify the responses, challenges and tensions that universities experienced in complying with the requirements of Article 124, an explanatory sequential mixed methods study was conducted. This comprised a survey that was administered to language centre Directors, EFL teachers and EFL students in 14 universities located in 10 different cities in the country, in-depth interviews conducted with teachers, and focus group interviews with students from 3 universities. Results of this research showed that responses of participating universities focused mainly on their physical and information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure development, and less on pedagogy and manage...
In 2020, the entire world experienced a pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. This pandemic drew... more In 2020, the entire world experienced a pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. This pandemic drew most of the entire world population to confinement, causing dramatic changes in most people’s everyday activities, for instance, education. Most countries modified their educational systems and moved from a face to face education to an online mode. By using a survey design, this study aims to describe the online teaching practices of 51 language teachers working at the language center of a university. Results show that language instructors working in this institution did not receive clear instructions on how to move from face to face to an online mode effectively. Additionally, results show that they have limited understanding of online education, a lack of a proper online education training among language teachers, and limited knowledge of how to properly integrate technological tools into an online mode.
espanolEl proposito de este articulo es analizar como los paises dominantes ejercen su poder sobr... more espanolEl proposito de este articulo es analizar como los paises dominantes ejercen su poder sobre los paises dominados,y como esto afecta al sector educativo de estos ultimos paises. Este fenomeno se explica mediante las relaciones de poder ydominio existentes entre Estados Unidos y Ecuador en los ultimos treinta anos. A traves de la optica de la teoria de lareproduccion social, la teoria de la resistencia, y la teoria critica, se espera que este articulo provea de informacion necesariapara sensibilizar a las personas sobre el tema de relaciones asimetricas de poder. EnglishThe purpose of this article is to present an account of how dominant countries exert their power over dominatedcountries and how their influence is reflected in the education sector of dominated countries. To explain this phenomenon therelations between the United States (USA) and Ecuador in the last 30 years are reviewed. Using as looking glass the socialreproduction theory, resistance theory, and critical theo...
El turismo comunitario en el Ecuador es una actividad reconocida y regulada legalmente. Estas reg... more El turismo comunitario en el Ecuador es una actividad reconocida y regulada legalmente. Estas regulaciones también establecen las actividades y el tipo de capacitación con las que deben contar las comunidades indígenas o rurales que han tenido la iniciativa por emprender en este sector para garantizar la calidad de los servicios turísticos ofertados. El requisito de capacitación y formación se vuelve problemático para los miembros de los emprendimientos comunitarios por diferentes razones, por ejemplo: capacitadores con conocimientos limitados de la comunidad, capacitadores que no poseen las herramientas pedagógicas y metodológicas necesarias para motivar una participación activa de las personas asistentes a las capacitaciones y contenidos de aprendizaje que sean pertinentes con el contexto de la comunidad. Por este motivo se propone un modelo de co-capacitación de los miembros de la comunidad en el que con el soporte de un facilitador, y utilizando una metodología didáctica basa...
Los pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas han sufrido a lo largo de la historia procesos de discrimi... more Los pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas han sufrido a lo largo de la historia procesos de discriminación y exclusión sistemática. A pesar de que han existido movimientos y luchas sociales que han buscado la reivindicación de los derechos de estos pueblos y nacionalidades, en muchos países y particularmente en el Ecuador, ha sido una tarea difícil lograr la erradicación por completo la discriminación y exclusión indígena. La constitución del Ecuador, aparte de garantizar el respeto a los pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas, también garantiza el respeto a la naturaleza. Sin embargo, en situaciones en las cuales la inclusión y desarrollo de los indígenas depende de algún grado de afectación a la naturaleza, ¿a qué aspecto se debería dar prioridad? El presente estudio presenta una reflexión sobre estos dos aspectos y la influencia que estos tienen para alcanzar el buen vivir. Palabras clave: Buen vivir, estudios indígenas, políticas públicas, medio ambiente
Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis... more Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis on meaning-focused language instruction. In order to compare the effectiveness of the strategies of Metalinguistic and Recast feedback in student uptake during oral interactions, an eight-week quasi experimental study was conducted. This study comprised thirty participants distributed in two classes. One group of 16 students was exposed to metalinguistic feedback and the other group of 14 students to recast. Throughout the study students remained constant in each group, this means they were not mixed. The selected students were aged from 18 to 20 year-old and they were attending the Eighth course of the English Foreign Language Program in ESPE [Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas] during the semester October 2015 to February 2016. To compare the effectiveness of the two aforementioned feedback strategies, four target structures were adopted, these were: omission of subject, auxiliary us...
This book is a product of the year-long project, “Building Inclusive EFL Teacher Training Network... more This book is a product of the year-long project, “Building Inclusive EFL Teacher Training Networks”, a winning project of the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) which was hosted by the United States Department of State in 2017. The Project was selected out of 1,014 submissions from 125 coun- tries and was one of the two projects from Ecuador which was selected to promote inclusion, encourage professional mobility among teachers and mitigate the lack of English teachers in public schools in the provinces of Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago (Zone 6).
Artículo de investigación Students´ perceptions towards learning English online: An exploratory s... more Artículo de investigación Students´ perceptions towards learning English online: An exploratory study at a Language Centre of an Ecuadorian University Percepciones de los estudiantes sobre el aprendizaje del inglés en línea: Un estudio exploratorio en un centro de idiomas de una Universidad Ecuatoriana Percepção dos estudantes sobre o aprendizado de inglês na linha: Um estúdio explorador no Centro de Idiomas de uma universidade ecológica
Manuscrito recibido el: 22 de marzo de 2017 Aprobado tras revisión el: 8 de junio de 2017 RESUMEN... more Manuscrito recibido el: 22 de marzo de 2017 Aprobado tras revisión el: 8 de junio de 2017 RESUMEN Este estudio exploratorio se realizó en un curso de Inglés como Lengua Extranjera (EFL) en una Institución de Educación Superior en Ecuador. El objetivo fue investigar si la retroalimentación correctiva (CF) puede mejorar la precisión gramatical en las interacciones orales de los estudiantes y qué tipo de CF es más efectiva para producir enunciados correctamente construidos. El estudio de 18 semanas involucró a veintiocho participantes distribuidos en dos clases. Cada clase recibió un CF específico; así, el grupo 1 metalingüístico y el grupo 2 reformulación. Los resultados de una serie de pruebas consecutivas (9) revelaron que la provisión de los dos tipos de CF condujo a corregir significativamente los enunciados producidos por los estudiantes en estructuras lingüísticas específicas. El notable desempeño del grupo de estudiantes con los que se practicó el CF metalingüístico indicó la efectividad de éste sobre el CF de reformulación. Los hallazgos de este estudio sugieren que los profesores de idiomas deben utilizar más la retroalimentación metalingüística para el tratamiento de los errores de los estudiantes de EFL cuando se interactúa oralmente. ABSTRACT This exploratory study was carried out in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom at a Higher Education Institution in Ecuador. The objective was to investigate whether corrective feedback (CF) can improve grammatical accuracy in students' oral interactions and what type of CF is most effective in producing correctly constructed statements. The 18-week study involved twenty-eight participants in two classes. Each class received a Docencia EFL Teachers' Corrective Feedback and Its Effect On Learners' Error Repair in Speaking I 97 AXIOMA-Revista Científica de Investigación, Docencia y Proyección Social Todos los derechos reservados specific CF, thus, the group 1 metalinguistic and the group 2 reformulation. The results of a series of consecutive tests (9) revealed that the provision of the two types of CF led to a significant correction of statements produced by students in specific linguistic structures. The remarkable performance of the group of students with whom the metalinguistic CF was practiced indicated the effectiveness of this one on the CF of reformulation. The findings of this study suggest that language teachers should use more metalinguistic feedback for the treatment of EFL students' errors when interacting orally.
Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis... more Corrective feedback has attracted much attention in recent years, this with a particular emphasis on meaning-focused language instruction. In order to compare the effectiveness of the strategies of metalinguistic and recast feedback on student uptake during oral interactions, an eight-week non-experimental study was conducted. This study comprised thirty participants distributed in two classes. One group of 16 students was exposed to metalinguistic feedback and the other group of 14 students to recast. The selected students were aged from 18 to 20 year-old and were attending the eighth course of the English Foreign Language Program in a public university in Ecuador for one semester. To compare the effectiveness of the two aforementioned feedback strategies, four target structures were adopted: omission of subject, auxiliary use in questions, subject-verb agreement, and reported statements. The structures emerged from a survey which was administered to a sample of EFL teachers from the Language Center of the university. The findings of the study revealed that learners who were exposed to metalinguistic feedback outperformed their counterparts who were exposed to recast feedback.
English Language Education in Ecuador: Assessing Opportunities for Teaching and Learning in a Developing Nation, 2023
https://usfqpress.com/ We are the publishing house of Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. We... more https://usfqpress.com/ We are the publishing house of Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. We promote the mission of the university by disseminating knowledge to train, educate, research and serve the community within the philosophy of the Liberal Arts.
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