Papers by Reinel David Oyola
World Journal of Educational Research, 2024
In 2020, the global sanitary crisis of COVID-19 prompted us to search for strategies to keep comm... more In 2020, the global sanitary crisis of COVID-19 prompted us to search for strategies to keep communicating in all areas of society. The education domain had to adapt and quickly made a significant shift towards digital interactions to facilitate instructional delivery for teaching and learning. This qualitative case study aimed at exploring the perceptions and most challenging facts associated with an Online education model applied to core courses in an ELT program at a Colombian university. Data from surveys interviews and focus groups applied to 115 learners and 20 teachers suggested that despite the benefits regarding authentic materials for language learners, constraints related to learners connectivity, teachers-students interaction, social presence, motivation, evaluation, and the delivery of feedback were the most challenging situations. The overview portrayed in this study will facilitate comprehension of the learning and teaching issues presented during Covid 19 pandemic and will raise awareness of new perspectives for further online instruction.
Reading to learn is an instructional approach that leads students from aided to independent creat... more Reading to learn is an instructional approach that leads students from aided to independent creation of meaning in reading and writing, it follows a cycle with a set of strategies guiding students to independent construction of a specific text-genre. Nevertheless, few studies have designed instructional units and lessons for the use of R2L to promote learners' oral production, most specifically of oral exposition texts. Neither has it been researched yet the use of this methodology along with mediation tools in the EFL class. Therefore, this qualitative study is intended to describe the main characteristics an instructional unit and lesson based on R2L and flipped learning should contain to develop tenth-graders' capacity to produce oral exposition discourses in an EFL class. As well as to identify the main adaptations EFL teachers should consider when integrating R2L and FL for developing students' capacity to produce exposition oral genres. Previous to the unit design, a diagnostic lesson was conducted on tenth-graders in a public school from the rural side of Montería, Colombia. Throughout the intervention oral production tasks, audio recordings, observations, and document analysis were used to collect data for the present design. This study sheds light on the existing gap of knowledge about the design and implementation of R2L and Flipped instruction to prompt the participation of oral exposition texts in tenth-graders.
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Papers by Reinel David Oyola