Desarrollo de materiales en el contexto colombiano: algunas consideraciones acerca de sus beneficios y desafíos

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Bertha Ramos Holguín
Jahir Aguirre Morales

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El desarrollo de materiales es un área de estudio que ha adquirido recientemente gran importancia en el contexto colombiano dado que los profesores como diseñadores de materiales han empezado a reconocer el diseño de materiales como un campo de conocimiento que ayuda a mejorar sus prácticas docentes. Sin embargo, la justificación, las ventajas y las desventajas que deben guiar a quienes diseñan materiales son aspectos que no han sido suficientemente explorados en Colombia. En este artículo se pretende dar a conocer algunas consideraciones generales acerca de los beneficios que los profesores que diseñan materiales pueden obtener y ciertos inconvenientes que emergen a lo largo del proceso. Finalmente, los autores discuten algunas implicaciones para los profesores, los estudiantes y los programas de licenciatura.

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Ramos Holguín, B., & Aguirre Morales, J. (2014). Desarrollo de materiales en el contexto colombiano: algunas consideraciones acerca de sus beneficios y desafíos. HOW Journal, 21(2), 134–150. https://doi.org/10.19183/how.21.2.8
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Bertha Ramos Holguín, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja

Bertha Ramos Holguín is an associate professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. She holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Universidad Distrital (Colombia). She belongs to the research group TONGUE. She has co-authored English textbooks, and published research articles related to English language teaching.

Jahir Aguirre Morales, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja

Jahir Aguirre Morales is an assistant professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. He holds an M.A. in English Didactics from Universidad de Caldas (Colombia). He belongs to the research group TONGUE. He has co-authored English textbooks, and published research articles related to English language teaching.

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