This research aimed to determine the relationship between the level of formal thought and academic performance in mathematics, of students of vocational middle district of Barranquilla. The correlational design had a sample of 196 students; 92 belonged to tenth and 104 to eleventh grade, aged 15 - 17 years. The test of TOLT and Vasco was used. A descriptive and statistical...
This study corresponds to the second phase of a project started in 2009, aiming at analyzing the process of teaching and learning reading and writing in a public school from the Colombian Caribbean region and designing and evaluating a process of coaching an L1 teacher. We report here the results of a process whose purpose was to positively influence the teaching and learning of...
The aim of this article is to describe the knowledge teachers of the Education Career, mention Learning Disabilities, possess about learning strategies and their implementation as apprentices of the subjects they teach. With this purpose, it was made a descriptive field research. The descriptive statistic techniques were used to analyze the data. It was determined that teachers...
The use of technology in learning environments can contribute to achieve learning goals provided the training needed to use and apply such resources. Here we present the results of the study of the teaching strategies mediated by technology and employed by basic education teachers. The objective was to identify and describe such strategies by means of the socio-cultural paradigm...
This research aimed to determine the relationship between the level of formal thought and academic performance in mathematics, of students of vocational middle district of Barranquilla. The correlational design had a sample of 196 students; 92 belonged to tenth and 104 to eleventh grade, aged 15 - 17 years. The test of TOLT and Vasco was used. A descriptive and statistical...
This study corresponds to the second phase of a project started in 2009, aiming at analyzing the process of teaching and learning reading and writing in a public school from the Colombian Caribbean region and designing and evaluating a process of coaching an L1 teacher. We report here the results of a process whose purpose was to positively influence the teaching and learning of...
The aim of this article is to describe the knowledge teachers of the Education Career, mention Learning Disabilities, possess about learning strategies and their implementation as apprentices of the subjects they teach. With this purpose, it was made a descriptive field research. The descriptive statistic techniques were used to analyze the data. It was determined that teachers...
The production of academic texts involves discourse and communicative competences and certain cognitive processes, with which university students tend to have difficulties. Likewise, such difficulties are reinforced by instruction, since, generally, students are not guided during the writing process. In this article we aim to recover theoretical contributions about text...
As we know, reading and writing are not simply techniques that we use to reproduce statements, but are real strategies that are essential for cultivating the world in which we are immersed. In this communication we analyze the Personal Critical Commentary Text, as an important tool for college students in order to use the language with intelligence and develop the natural human...
This paper discusses from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics the importance of considering 'Theme' as the point of departure of the clause. A detailed analysis of the successive points of departure of a variety of texts in Spanish highlights the structuring of what is named here the 'semantic skeleton' of the text. The paper further examines the functions of...
In this paper an alternative to prevent the so-called linearization error is presented as a product of the investigation of algebraic errors that our freshmen produce, which occurs very often when our students intend to develop exercises that require algebraic manipulations. In addition, it seeks to identify the possible source of error and to implement the use of computational...
This article presents a preliminary report as a part of the research project named Critical Reading as a Strategy for Redefining the Literature Role in Language Teaching Class (U.N.Ca. - SeCyT), whose main purpose is to determine the causes of the gap between statements of pedagogical discourse and learning outcomes of students, and on this basis, to propose courses of action...
This research paper aims at describing how a group of college students interpret political cartoons. For this purpose, the text is divided into two parts: the first, is the interpretation of a sample model of Presidential little Palace (PP), Vladdo feature cartoon, published in Semana magazine every Sunday. To do this, we have relied on the theory of illocutionary act of Austin...
This research paper presents the characteristics of four educative institutions that incorporated ICT to the curriculum. This characterization is supported in the theoretical references expressed by the ICT Integration to the School Curriculum Model (MITICA), from the initials in Spanish. This research is inside the hermeneutic paradigm framework, so it is based on qualitative...
Communicative oral reading implies the use of prosodic features that allow the reader to organize the oral text to facilitate its interpretation. At the School of Languages, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, the oral reading is a central topic of the subject Phonetics and Phonology II in the EFL courses. Despite that training, an important number of students still...
The concept of management model has been incorporated as management support in organizations. Given the particular connotation of institutions offering distance higher education (IESAD), this article has synthesized the characterization of the distance education's methodology, analyzing the problems involved; it also presents an approach to management model concept and finally...