Abstract

ARIAS SOTO, Luz Dary. Impact of a Web 2.0 Mediated Course in the Professional Development of a Group of Future English Teachers. Folios [online]. 2012, n.36, pp.51-76. ISSN 0123-4870.

Abstract This article presents the results of a research study conducted with a group of in training teachers. This research, based on theoretical constructs such as teacher's ICT competences, teacher professional development in ICTs in Colombia, ICT mediated language teaching and learning, and Web 2.0 applied to language teaching and learning, revealed the efficiency of tools such as podcasts, blogs, microblogs and wikis in the professional development of a group of future teachers in three aspects: technologic, pedagogic and linguistic. The analysis of the data collected through interviews, students' documents (blogs, microblogs, and podcasts), and a pretest and a postest evidenced the need to improve the teacher professional development policies of the country so as to educate teachers to meet the demands of a technology mediated learning and teaching language process, and helped determine that the students improved their knowledge and use of the tools, and changed their attitudes and perceptions of the tools. It was also determined that the students improved their command of English both orally and in written form.

Keywords : Teacher professional development; Web 2.0; podcast; blog; microblog; wiki.

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