Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical Approach
This study investigates the impact of implementing collaborative learning from a social and dialogical perspective on seventh graders’ interaction in an English as a foreign language classroom at a public school in Bogotá, Colombia. Thirty students participated in this action research where field no...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2017-07-01
|
| Series: | Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/57811 |
| _version_ | 1827847748815159296 |
|---|---|
| author | Janeth Juliana Contreras León Claudia Marcela Chapetón Castro |
| author_facet | Janeth Juliana Contreras León Claudia Marcela Chapetón Castro |
| author_sort | Janeth Juliana Contreras León |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This study investigates the impact of implementing collaborative learning from a social and dialogical perspective on seventh graders’ interaction in an English as a foreign language classroom at a public school in Bogotá, Colombia. Thirty students participated in this action research where field notes, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and artifacts of students’ work were used to collect data during a complete academic year. Results show that taking a critical approach to language education and understanding collaborative learning as a social construction of knowledge can ignite opportunities for changing traditional teaching and learning practices where both the teacher and students take different roles, thus balancing classroom relations and interaction among participants and also promoting students’ empowerment. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-12T09:34:49Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-1e2487e6c40b44e6a4a0010329ba87be |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1657-0790 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-12T09:34:49Z |
| publishDate | 2017-07-01 |
| publisher | Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development |
| spelling | doaj.art-1e2487e6c40b44e6a4a0010329ba87be2023-09-02T13:40:55ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902017-07-0119213514910.15446/profile.v19n2.57811Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical ApproachJaneth Juliana Contreras León0Claudia Marcela Chapetón Castro1Colegio Bravo Páez IEDUniversidad Pedagógica NacionalThis study investigates the impact of implementing collaborative learning from a social and dialogical perspective on seventh graders’ interaction in an English as a foreign language classroom at a public school in Bogotá, Colombia. Thirty students participated in this action research where field notes, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and artifacts of students’ work were used to collect data during a complete academic year. Results show that taking a critical approach to language education and understanding collaborative learning as a social construction of knowledge can ignite opportunities for changing traditional teaching and learning practices where both the teacher and students take different roles, thus balancing classroom relations and interaction among participants and also promoting students’ empowerment.http://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/57811Collaborative learningdialogical approachEnglish as a foreign languagepublic schools |
| spellingShingle | Janeth Juliana Contreras León Claudia Marcela Chapetón Castro Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical Approach Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development Collaborative learning dialogical approach English as a foreign language public schools |
| title | Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical Approach |
| title_full | Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical Approach |
| title_fullStr | Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical Approach |
| title_short | Transforming EFL Classroom Practices and Promoting Students’ Empowerment: Collaborative Learning From a Dialogical Approach |
| title_sort | transforming efl classroom practices and promoting students empowerment collaborative learning from a dialogical approach |
| topic | Collaborative learning dialogical approach English as a foreign language public schools |
| url | http://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/57811 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT janethjulianacontrerasleon transformingeflclassroompracticesandpromotingstudentsempowermentcollaborativelearningfromadialogicalapproach AT claudiamarcelachapetoncastro transformingeflclassroompracticesandpromotingstudentsempowermentcollaborativelearningfromadialogicalapproach |