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Nowadays, the terms critical reflection as well as reflective practitioner seem to be the current trend in Language Education. Nevertheless, these notions were put forward in Education initially by Jhon Dewey in 1933, then revisited by Donald Schön 50 years later (1983, 1987) and brought to English Language Teaching (ELT) by Michael Wallace in 1991. Initially, it had been […]
What comes to your mind when you think of teaching English pronunciation? Listen, identify, discriminate, and repeat? Pronunciation boxes? Minimal pairs? Accents? Intelligibility? Having had the chance to study some aspects of English pronunciation and to develop several meaningful activities together with my students, I would say the key word is integration. Pronunciation does matter, and it is […]
En el marco del 8 de marzo, en conmemoración del día de la mujer, ELT Services and Consulting tuvo a bien organizar una mesa redonda sobre la mujer en contextos educativos mexicanos moderada por la Dra. Jovanna Godínez. Dicha conversación contó con la participación de cuatro mujeres que destacan por su labor en el campo […]
English Medium Instruction (EMI) is defined as «the use of the English language to teach academic subjects other than English itself in countries or jurisdictions where the first language of the majority of the population is not English» (Macaro, 2018, p. 19). Different scholars (e.g., Aguilar, 2017; Dearden, 2015; Paulsrud, 2014; Hellekjaer, 2019) have also […]
Introducción Los profesores, asesores y docentes de lenguas tenemos una responsabilidad por fomentar la autonomía del aprendizaje en nuestros estudiantes y/ o aprendientes. Esto no es una tarea sencilla ya que la autonomía del aprendizaje tiene diversas formas, propósitos y concepciones en diferentes partes del país atendiendo a contextos sociales, políticas educativas, y de manera […]
In order to better understand the influence of research in the area of English language teaching (ELT) in Mexico, we would first like to present a brief summary of the origins and history of Applied Linguistics, which is still considered a relatively new discipline. Placing the term in its origins will ease the understanding of its […]
Introduction Narratives in Humanities and Social Sciences are prized as they offer insights into people’s private worlds expanding our knowledge through the understanding of others. Hence, this is an account of my 20-year experience as a practitioner in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Mexico. The data here provided is based on empirical […]
On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19[1] a Public Health Emergency concern, and by 11 March a world pandemic. Unavoidably, this caused major disruptions and drastic changes in everyday life contexts throughout the globe affecting all areas of human interaction, the Educational context being one of them. With regards to educational scenarios, face […]
La importancia del aprendizaje de segundas lenguas es un tema que se ha tratado por más de medio siglo en México y el mundo, sin embargo, es una cuestión que actualmente sigue siendo revitalizada. Esta revitalización emana entre otros factores, del papel de las lenguas extranjeras con fines de comunicación internacional pero también intranacional y […]
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