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La enseñanza de la escritura en la clase de idioma extranjero puede ser una tarea desalentadora que exige tiempo y esfuerzo de los maestros, pero también requiere que aumenten la conciencia sobre cómo lo hacen actualmente y las razones por las que lo hacen. Muchos docentes no parecen estar conscientes de cómo enseñan la escritura, si lo hacen como práctica del lenguaje o como práctica social. Por lo tanto, esta investigación buscó identificar la comprensión de los docentes acerca de enseñar a escribir en inglés en los cursos de Comunicación en el Programa de Inglés, así como los desafíos que podrían enfrentar al enseñarlo. Los datos se recopilaron de observaciones de clase, el diario del investigador, entrevistas con tres docentes del Programa de Enseñanza del Inglés en la Universidad de Córdoba, y fuentes secundarias como actividades de escritura y los programas del curso. Los resultados mostraron que los docentes tienen creencias sobre cómo enseñar la escritura, generalmente siguiendo un enfoque orientado al producto y al proceso. Sin embargo, los participantes descubrieron instancias en las que han enseñado a escribir como práctica social; aunque, no parecen estar completamente conscientes de las causas. Además, los maestros revelaron que enfrentan desafíos que hacen que la enseñanza de la escritura sea abrumadora y difícil. Se sugiere que se necesita más investigación para continuar explorando cómo los maestros pueden superar los desafíos que enfrentan y hacer uso de un enfoque más equilibrado que integre las formas textuales, centradas en el individuo pero también en lo social.

Multimodality involves different forms or modes of expression, among which we mainly find the visual, linguistic, spatial, aural and gestural modes. Even several studies have been conducted analyzing those modes, but separately, our point is that converging these modes in the same social interaction helps the participants to create meaning. Facilitating target language comprehensibility is a core practice based on strategies that the teacher makes use of with the aim of getting students to obtain a better understanding of the target language and to facilitate its meaning, it follows 3 stages, create comprehensible language, create context for comprehension and create comprehensible interaction. These 3 stages help educators to achieve significant interactions in the L2 classroom and converging the different multimodal modes while implementing this practice can improve the performance of the social interactions. Considering this, this study aimed to explore how the merge of multimodal modes facilitate target language comprehensibility. To achieve that, many research articles guided us during the investigation. For the data collection procedures an EFL class was analyzed, the participants were a pre-service teacher and his students when doing his teaching practices. The data collection method used was video viewing and to show the results we used transcriptions with the conversation analysis method (CA). The results of this investigation showed that merging the multimodal modes makes easier for students and teachers create meaning and facilitates target language comprehensibility

When it comes to designing a syllabus, English teachers endeavour to seek for the most suitable strategies, techniques and approaches that help to meet students’ needs and make language learning a relevant experience to their learners. Games, for instance, are a clear sample of that search since a great number of studies has shown how games may act as a trigger to promote interaction and language practice in EFL. On the other hand, conversation activities are necessary by many teachers and students in the English classes; however, lessons planned on grammar and vocabulary prevail more often than activities in which students hold conversations. In view of this, the present study aimed to propose a topic-based-functional syllabus using outdoor games to promote students’ conversation established in the CEFR (2018), companion volume. To conduct this study, a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and observations were selected to gather the data. After analyzing the information gathered, we determined and explained in depth the aspects needed to design a topic-based-functional syllabus for promoting learners’ conversations in 8th grade.

Technology has brought many advantages in people's lives and it has supported many fields, including the educational field. Teachers and students have been benefited with the inclusion of technology inside the classrooms. There have been several studies related to the benefits that technology has brought for the schools. However, there is still a need for more phenomenological research in our context about English teachers’ lived experiences about the use of technology in their classrooms. Particularly, the limitations that they have faced during their teaching practices. The purpose of this study was to explore and understand English teachers’ lived experiences about the use of technology in the EFL classroom. Seidman (2006) three series of interviews model was used to collect the data. The data analysis was carried out through Colaizzi’s (1978) method of seven steps for descriptive phenomenology. The analysis process provided four themes: (a) The Transcendence of Being a User, (b) Awareness of a Value, (c) The Experience of Being Technology-illiterate, and (d) The Smoothness of Communication and Sense of Improvement. The findings of this study provide accounts of the participant’s experiences about the significance of being a user, sense of improvement and value and the limitations inside the EFL classroom, and also the experiences gave meaning to the inclusion of technology in the teaching-learning process.

Teachers are requested to develop students' reading comprehension ability, so they can understand, debate and propose ideas based on texts they read in class. However, in some of our school contexts and during our observations we could recognize that students tend to perceive texts as long and boring, Moreover, activities students engage in are mostly to search for literal information and vocabulary answers in texts. This research focused on addressing students’ needs concerning reading by using genre-based pedagogy and mangas as texts in an EFL context. This study also sought to describe the possible affordances that might be observed on 8thh graders´ after being taught with GBP and mangas, as well as exploring how it provoked some changes in students´ negative feelings towards reading in the EFL class. Results from the study showed that knowledge of genre and interaction with its components helped students understand the story in the Manga, read a new manga by their own and answer genre questions about it. The study also showed how some of the students felt comfortable when reading after being taught with GBP.