Título investigación: "Learnes Cultural Negotiation within the EFL Class"

Investigador: Iván David Bonilla Castañeda

Director: Alba del Carmen Olaya León

Examinadores: Bertha Ramos Holguín y Carmen Matilde Hernández

Fecha sustentación: 25 de abril de 2022

Título investigación: "Understanding the Discourse of Inclusive Education at the Higher Level of Education"

Investigador: Laura Camila Ortiz Castro

Director: Yeraldine Aldana Gutiérrez

Examinadores: Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo y Javier Armando Sierra Gordillo 

Fecha sustentación: 25 de abril de 2022

Título investigación: "Reconciling Local Knowledge with the English Curriculum"

Investigador: Johana Patricia Caro Vargas

Director: Amparo Clavijo Olarte

Examinadores: Fernanda Liberalli y Yecid Ortega Páez

Fecha sustentación: 25 de abril de 2022

Título investigación: "EFL teachers' Positioning about Functional Diversity: A Narrative Study"

Investigador: LAURA CAMILA VILLARREAL BUITRAGO

Director: PILAR MENDEZ RIVERA PhD  

Examinadores: YERALDINE ALDANA GUTIERREZ y CAMILO ENRIQUE DÍAZ ROMERO PhD

Fecha sustentación: 04 de Marzo de 2019

Título investigación: "DEVELOPING MATH AND EFL LITERACIES THROUGH COLLABORATION, INTERACTION AND KNOWLEDGE."

Investigador:  PAOLA ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ

Director: CLELIA ZOBEIDA PINEDA BAEZ PhD  

Examinadores: AMPARO CLAVIJO OLARTE PhD yPILAR MENDEZ RIVERA PhD

Fecha sustentación: 02 de Abril de 2019

Título investigación: "REFLECTIVE PRACTICES: STUDENTS´ POSITIONING AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS."

Investigador:  CHRISTIAN CAMILO BERNAL GONZALEZ

Director: CLELIA ZOBEIDA PINEDA BAEZ PhD  

Examinadores: YOLANDA SAMACA BOHÓRQUEZ y EDGAR AUGUSTO AGUIRRE

Fecha sustentación: 02 de Abril de 2019

Título investigación: "Exploring local literacies with EFL students through blog interactions"

Investigador: GISELLE DIANE CASTAÑEDA DE LA HOZ

Director: AMPARO CLAVIJO OLARTE PhD

Examinadores: PILAR MENDEZ RIVERA ySANDRA XIMENA BONILLA 

Fecha sustentación: 10 de Agosto de 2018

Título investigación: "EFL Eleventh Graders' Decision-Making via Critical Literacy Practices: A Study of their Social Agency"

Investigador: MARCELA LILIANA CARDENAS CRUZ

Director: ÁLVARO HERNÁN QUINTERO POLO

Examinadores: CARMEN HELENA GUERRERO NIETO y YERALDINE ALDANA GUTIÉRREZ

Fecha sustentación: 24 de Septiembre de 2018

Título investigación: "A Blended Teacher Workshop: Teachers' Didactic Beliefs Reshaped While Learning Together"

Investigador: GINA MARCELA PÉREZ ROMERO

Director: YERALDINE ALDANA GUTIÉRREZ

Examinadores: ADRIANA CASTAÑEDA LONDOÑO y MAURO BAQUERO 

Fecha sustentación: 04 de Octubre de 2018

Título investigación: "University EFL Students' Experiences when Facing Blended Learning Environment"

Investigador: RENÉ ALEJANDRO MUNAR QUIROGA,

Director: YERALDINE ALDANA GUTIÉRREZ

Examinadores: PAULA ANDREA BECERRA y JAIRO ENRIQUE CASTAÑEDA TRUJILLO, 

Fecha sustentación: 22 de Octubre de 2018

Título investigación: "EFL Students Authoring Texts On Critical Social Issues Through Literature, Film and Theater."

Investigador: ERIKA DEBAL SANTAFÉ

Director: AMPARO CLAVIJO OLARTE PhD

Examinadores: FRANCISCO RAMOS CUNCACHUN yNANCY E. CARVAJAL MEDINA PhD 

Fecha sustentación: 26 de Octubre de 2018

Título investigación: "The Native Speaker Fallacy in English Teachers' Recruitment Practices: Voices of Resistance within a Networked Sociality."

Investigador: YEISON FREDDY MARTÍNEZ CRISTANCHO

Director: PILAR MENDEZ RIVERA PhD

Examinadores: SANDRA XIMENABONILLA MEDINA PhD y YERALDINE ALDANA GUTIERREZ 

Fecha sustentación: 20 de Noviembre de 2018

Título investigación: STORYTELLING AND STORY-READING: A WAY TO ENHANCE EFL STUDENTS' LITERACIES.

Investigador:  Jimena Rivera

Director: Esperanza Vera Rodríguez

Examinadores: Amparo Clavijo, Álvaro Hernán Quintero P

Fecha sustentación: Agosto 1° de 2016

Título investigación: INQUIRING WITHIN THE STUDENTS' COMMUNITY CONTEXTS AS A MEANS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Investigador:  Adriana Contreras

Director: Dr. Amparo Clavijo Olarte

Examinadores: Pilar Méndez, Esperanza Vera

Fecha sustentación: Agosto 1° de 2016

Título investigación: Unveiling EFL students' reflections while using Critical Feminist Pedagogy (CFP) when debating

Investigador:  Jorge Chaparro

Director: Dr. Harold Andrés Castañeda Peña

Examinadores: Prof. Laura Lucia Carreño B. Prof. Ximena Rojas

Fecha sustentación: Agosto 4 de 2016

Abstract: The present paper reports the findings of the implementation of a feminist pedagogy in an EFL classroom of adults in Bogotá, Colombia. After having found a lack of connections among the syllabus proposed by the institution, the linguistic and the sociolinguistic needs from students, the researcher decided to implement Critical Feminist Pedagogy (CFP), a poststructuralist methodology proposed by Connell (2009). The aim of this study was to unveil possible students' reflective discourses that emerged when a group of EFL Colombian students debated about topics of inequality in a conversational level; however, a deeper focus was on students' transformations (if any).

Students were encouraged to see critically different situations of gender inequality. The results showed that students could be empowered to have a critical perspective on topics of inequality because they constructed reflections not only about gender but also about other characteristics of identity (Norton & Pavlenko, 2004). Besides critical reflections, there was evidence of some transformations, but the time scope to make such transformations real was insufficient. The use of CFP to empower students was effective (Khwaja, 2005). EFL trainers, professors, and SLA researchers may have the opportunity to see a new direction of teaching which focuses on a transformative methodology that comes from a post-method view of teaching and learning.

Keywords: Debates in the classroom, Critical Feminist Pedagogy (CFP), post-method views of teaching and learning, students' reflections, transformative methodology.

Título investigación: EFL Ninth Graders' Positionings about Bullying in their Communities through Written Life Stories in a Public School in Bogotá

Investigador:  Alba Yuricssan León  Oyola

Director: Prof. Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo

Examinadores: Dr. Harold Castañeda Peña, Prof. Eliana Garzón Duarte

Fecha sustentación: Agosto 4 de 2016

Abstract: This study was carried out with EFL ninth graders at one of the biggest public schools in Bogotá. It is located in an area which presents particular social issues together with bullying appearance. That is why I proposed the following research question: What do ninth graders' written life stories portray about their positioning in regards to bullying as a social issue in their communities? This is based upon a view of discourse that Fairclough (2003) presents as an element of social life to represent different aspects of the world, which are drawn upon on a text. Such view relates to the ways adolescents face L2 literacy development within their social contexts, being schools one of those contexts (Moje, 2006) where there are opportunities to (re)construct meaningful life experiences. The focus in this thesis is on the experiences lived by the participants as related to the social issue of bullying. Those participants' experiences took the shape of life stories that they wrote during one year. In order to analyze the participants' life stories, I selected a model for narrative analysis suggested by Barkhuizen. (2004) The unit of analysis in this thesis was the specific declarative statements (Hallyday 1994), which made me conscious about the participants' positions (Davies & Harré, 1990) in front of bullying manifestations . As a validation strategy, semi-structured interviews were implemented (Cohen & Crabtree, 2006).

Key words: Written Life Stories, Positionings, Bullying

Título investigación: EFL Students' Social Identities Construction through Gender-Based Short Stories

Investigador:  Catherine Benavides

Director: Dr. Harold Andrés Castañeda Peña

Examinadores: Prof. Wilder Escobar, Prof. Bertha Ramos

Fecha sustentación: Agosto 4 de 2016

Título investigación: Promoting Speaking Skills in an EFL Classroom through Project-Based Learning: A Way to Involve Learners in Participatory Classes

Investigador:  Ady Marcela Vaca Torres

Director: Dr. Luis Fernando Gomez

Examinadores: Prof. Jair Ayala, Prof. Claudia Patricia Álvarez

Fecha sustentación: Agosto 4 de 2016

Título investigación: THROUGH COLLABORATIVE ORAL TASKS IN AN EFL CLASSROOM

Investigador:  Mayra Ramírez

Director: Pr. Judith Castellanos Jaime

Examinadores: Prof. Carlos Arias, Prof. Carlo Granados

Fecha sustentación: Agosto 4 de 2016

Título investigación: "Critical Analysis of media towards the Promotion of EFL Students' Learning Autonomy"

Investigador:  IVÁN ALCIDES AMORTEGUÍ SACRISTÁN

Director: MARGARITA VARGAS

Examinadores: CARMEN HELENA GUERRERO NIETO PhD y HAROLD ANDRÉS CASTAÑEDA PEÑA PhD

Línea(s) de investigación: Discourse studies within Educational Studies y Processes of Teacher Education and Development

Fecha sustentación: Miércoles 9 de Marzo de 2016

Título investigación: "Collaborative Inquiry as a way to promote elementary students´ reflections in the EFL classroom"

Investigador:  ANA JANNETH GÓMEZ GUTIÉRREZ

Director: AMPARO CLAVIJO OLARTE PhD

Examinadores: PILAR MENDEZ RIVERA PhD y ELIANA GARZÓN DUARTE

Línea(s) de investigación:  Processes of Teacher Education and Development

Fecha sustentación: Miércoles 9 de Marzo de 2016

Título investigación: "Third Graders As Community Inquirers Writing Their Worlds"

Investigador:  ZIGLINDE HERNÁNDEZ GÓMEZ

Examinadores: YOLANDA SAMACÁ y PEDRO CHALA

Línea(s) de investigación:  Processes of Teacher Education and Development

Fecha sustentación: Miércoles 9 de Marzo de 2016

A continuación podrá encontrar las tesis de grados desarrolladas en la Maestría en Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza del Inglés (MLAEI) comprendidas en los periodos de 1993 a 2021.  Las tesis están en documentos separados por décadas para facilitar su lectura. 

• TESIS 2020-2021

• TESIS 2015-2019

• TESIS 2004-2014

• TESIS 1992-2003