Challenges in English Teaching and Learning in Colombia

Zaily Patricia Del Toro, Ana Carolina Mercado, Milton Pájaro Manjarres, Luis Fernando Noriega, Willington Watts and Milton Lopez Sanchez

English Language Teaching, 2019, vol. 12, issue 4, 57

Abstract: This article presents a reflection on the educational scenario that permeates the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in its political, methodological, didactic, curricular and investigative dimensions. A description of the current English reading comprehension level in the national context is presented. On the other hand, from a transformative conception in which educational practices must be developed, different elements aiming to the development of formative practices are explored. This is achieved, with the active participation of all the subjects that participate in the educational process by conducting research, which plays a fundamental role that contributes to achieve the emancipation of human beings and the transformation of the environment where they live. Furthermore, this article invites readers to think about and transform the pedagogical practices that are around the teaching of English as a foreign language in Colombia, Latin America and the whole world. This is possible to be achieved, from a resignification of the curriculum and emerging didactics, focused on research and the multidimensionality of human beings.

Date: 2019
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