Profile Journal

Edited by the PROFILE Research Group, Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras - Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Classified in category A1, by Minciencias

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📢 Profile journal remains in Q1 in Linguistics and Language in the 2025 SCImago Journal Rank.

We thank our reviewers, authors, and readers for helping ensure the journal’s continued international relevance within the scientific community.

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🔎From our archive

📄This paper explores the potential of science dissemination tweets as authentic, updated, and multimodal materials for developing communicative competence, vocabulary, grammar, multimodal competence, and digital literacy.
🔗https://t.co/kGeLFh3l6Q
#ELT #EFL

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💭Questions for reflection:
This study from our archive uses narrative inquiry to explore turning points before, during, and after a BA in TESOL.
🔗https://t.co/jW0acNvsnZ
#TESOL #ELT #TeacherEducation #TeacherIdentity #Transnationalism #NarrativeInquiry

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📄Featured paper:
This paper from our archive explores three tensions in online teaching: performing for proximity, meeting institutional/student expectations, and continuously changing performances.
🔗https://t.co/milMxlCAaW

#TeacherIdentity #OnlineTeaching #ELT

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📍🗓️ Tenemos el gusto de invitarlos a la celebración del trigésimo aniversario de Íkala este viernes 16 de octubre, por la tarde. 🛜 Únase a la celebración por Zoom en https://t.co/eE8jHHzkKd

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🗣️Questions for reflection:

📄This paper from our archive found a significant reduction in students’ self-reported anxiety after a Pecha Kucha presentation: 20 slides × 20 seconds each.

📖https://t.co/EIxBOfqt3T

#ELT #EFL #PechaKucha

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🔎 From our archive:
📄 This article explores how research mentoring contributes to the development of autonomy, critical thinking, self-confidence, teamwork, and scientific curiosity.

🔗 https://t.co/Q4jNmdcV6z

#LanguageTeacherEducation #TeacherResearch #ResearchMentoring #ELT

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💭 Questions for reflection
📄 This paper from our archive presents an approach combining metacognition, genre analysis & task-based strategies to help students engage with academic texts more effectively.
🔗https://t.co/KujOhe7sUp

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🔎From our archive:
📄This paper offers a compelling look at how language education can become a space for students to examine not only how they use English, but also how they understand themselves and the world around them.
📖 Read the article: https://t.co/vD93NlYY2S

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📄This article from our archive explores a PBL experience with 54 preservice English teachers. Findings suggest benefits for higher-order thinking, reflection, research, and knowledge integration.
🔗https://t.co/NP41edZTUX

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📢¡Próxima semana! 🔔XVII Coloquio Internacional sobre Investigación en Lenguas Extranjeras
🗓️Sept. 23-25, 2026
Modalidad: híbrida
🔗Registro: https://t.co/QQ82TKh1mt

🔹Con el apoyo del programa Expertos Internacionales del @ICETEX

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🔎From our archive:
This article shows that teacher identity is not fixed or predetermined. Instead, it is continuously shaped by experiences, relationships, interests, choices, and interactions across different communities.

🔗Read the article: https://t.co/z9UP0g1Yyq

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📢 ¡Muy pronto! XVII Coloquio Internacional sobre Investigación en Lenguas Extranjeras

🌎modalidad híbrida
📅 23-25 de septiembre de 2026
📍 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

Inscripciones: https://t.co/QQ82TKh1mt

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📚 Featured paper: This study from our archive explores teachers’ perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of implementing out-of-class teamwork in higher education.

📖 Full article: https://t.co/l0crVHpELJ

#PROFILEJournal #TeacherEducation #Teamwork #ELT

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📚From our archive:
This mixed-methods study explores the emotional intelligence and coping strategies of six elementary students as they take two different speaking exams.
🔎 Discover the findings on emotions, coping, and language assessment
📄Full paper: https://t.co/2eeXC8fPSr

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🎬Videos from our authors:
Professors Frank Giraldo, Angela Patricia Velásquez Hoyos, and Luis Herney Villegas present their article published in Profile: Issues in Teachers Professional Development, Vol. 28, No. 2.
https://t.co/hPMGxmhJ9n

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¿Por qué participar en el XVII Coloquio Internacional sobre Investigación en Lenguas Extranjeras?
📅 23–25 de septiembre de 2026
📍Edificio de Posgrados de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, sede Bogotá
🔗 Inscríbase aquí: https://t.co/QQ82TKh1mt
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🔎¿Qué temas abordará el Coloquio?

Inscripciones: https://t.co/QQ82TKh1mt

@humanasunal @VRIUNAL @Educacionbogota @UNALOficial @UVeracruzanaMx @CanalUGR

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🔎From our archive:
📄This study explores how cooperative learning and process-oriented writing can support students’ development as English writers.
📖Read the full article: https://t.co/dY9mXiKYnT

#EnglishLanguageTeaching #CooperativeLearning #WritingSkills #TeacherResearch

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🗣️Conozca a nuestros plenaristas.

Deborah Pamler, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

🔗 Inscripciones: https://t.co/QQ82TKh1mt

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📹We invite you to watch the video abstract of the article “Deconstructing the Discourse of Proficiency: Social Class and Preservice English Language Teachers,” in which the authors discuss the main ideas and findings of their article.

https://t.co/mIQabrbKir