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UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.calj.2014.2.a00
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE CALDAS
Editorial
Welcome to this new issue of the Colombian an aim. We hope that in a couple of years these
Applied Linguistics Journal. This time a new goals are fulfilled redirecting us towards new
layout is presented addressing the challenges horizons and academic challenges. As part of this
of becoming a digital journal for the applied- new trajectory we have already claimed that it is
linguist academic community. This effort has been hoped that
cooperatively constructed by the joined efforts
of the CIDC Journal Coordinator at Universidad our explicit goal of ‘transversal dialogue
Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, the Editorial of implied and applied linguistics knowledge’
and Scientific Committees, the editor and his stimulates debate and reflection on the senses
editorial assistant and the valuable contributions of researching about Education and professional
made by authors and peer reviewers. As development of language teachers, Literacy
expressed by Holland, Skinner, Lachicotte and processes and new literacies in two languages
Cain (1998) in relation to identity and agency, and Discourse studies in educational contexts
this making of a figured world for our journal as scenarios where the social and plural occur.
has been a heteroglossic exercise where multiple (Castañeda-Peña, 2014, p.4)
voices are entangled together and where the
vantage point of our dialogism rests in a plural In relation to Education and professional
collective experience that shapes angles of a re- development of language teachers, Ekiaka-Nzai,
visited identity. Feng and Reyna demonstrate via a pedagogical
New identity angles here imply “trajectories intervention how pre-service language teachers
of participation” (Wortham, 2006) as this shift could easily access the ‘cyberlearning’ world to
to a digital journal also encompasses the lived qualify their future language teaching practices.
history of our journal in its printed version during Similar practices around initial teacher education
an important number of years. All the historical are constructed by Viáfara who centers teachers’
moments the Colombian Applied Linguistics academic learning in peer-tutoring under the
Journal has gone through are part of its own premise that it is by participating in communities
social identification and academic learning how pre-service teachers could best become
shared with its readership. But right now the community members and learn. In the same
Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal as part line of argument, Carreño, substantiates the
of its own trajectory aims at making part of an idea of collaboration as social means to claim
imagined community (Kanno & Norton, 2003). membership and progressively develop one’s
This imagined community refers to “groups own sense of belonging. Echoing these ideas,
of people [let us say academic journals], not Ortiz de Zárate, Walper, Aros, Hidalgo, Siebert
immediately tangible and accessible, with whom and Rojas, exemplify how inclusive education
we connect through the power of imagination” is about creating access to a linguistic code and
(Norton, 2013, p. 8). It is the time to be opportunities to participate in plural contexts.
positioned differently in the academic world It is within this context that Tassara and Villalón
and all efforts have been geared towards such claim that language education needs now to
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Harold Castañeda-Peña
be efficiently managed as this helps language Finally, as it was stated above, it is hoped
learners build identity and also allows them to this issue of the Colombian Applied Linguistics
exchange ideas with other nations re-shaping Journal to be a path breaking newly-born
background and new forms of existence using digital number that allows our readership to
both their own mother tongue and their own continue thinking, researching and discussing
foreign languages. contemporary applied linguistics topics to
Regarding Literacy processes and new become part of a ‘figured’ and ‘imagined’
literacies in two languages, Gómez demonstrates academic community in the near future.
the positive effect of introducing innovation in
the EFL classroom in a principled way under the Harold Castañeda-Peña
premises of the relational teaching approach. Editor
Mariño presents a case study where principles
of CLIL are carefully examined when applied in References
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direction, Soler discusses how scientists choose issue)
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communication and provides pedagogical clues Extending the conversation. Bristol: Multilingual
on how to explicitly teach these strategies. With Matters
a shared pedagogical perspective, Fonseca goes Wortham, S. (2006). Learning identity: The joint
back to the functional roots of discourse analysis to emergence of social identification and academic
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Harold Castañeda-Peña
Editorial
En dirección hacia un mundo ‘figurado’ e ‘imaginado’ para
el Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
Sean bienvenidos a este nuevo número del como “grupos de personas [digamos que de
Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal. En esta revistas científicas], que no son tangibles y
ocasión les presentamos un nuevo formato a accesibles en la inmediatez sensorial, pero a
partir de los requisitos de una revista académica quienes nos conectamos a través del poder
digital orientada a la comunidad de lingüistas de la imaginación” (Norton, 2013, p. 8). Es el
aplicados. Este es un esfuerzo que se ha momento para posicionarnos de otra forma en el
construido de manera cooperativa mediante mundo académico y todos los esfuerzos se han
la participación del Coordinador de Revistas encaminado a la consecución de ese objetivo.
Académicas del CIDC de la Universidad Distrital Esperamos que en un par de años esta meta se
Francisco José de Caldas, Leonardo Eljach, los cumpla enviándonos hacia nuevos horizontes y
Comités Científico y Académico-Editorial a retos de orden académico. Como parte de esta
quienes presentamos en el volumen 16-1, el nueva trayectoria ya habíamos mencionado en
mío propio y el de mi asistente editorial, Laura otra editorial que
Duperret, y el invaluable aporte realizado por
los autores y por los pares evaluadores. Como nuestra meta explícita de diálogos transversales
lo expresan Holland, Skinner, Lachicotte y de conocimiento lingüístico implicado y aplicado
Cain (1998) en relación con la identidad y el estimula el debate y la reflexión al investigar
agenciamiento, esta construcción de un mundo los sentidos de la Educación y el desarrollo
figurado para nuestra revista académica se ha profesional de profesores de lenguas, Procesos
convertido en un ejercicio heteroglósico donde se de alfabetización y de nuevas literacidades en dos
entrecruzan múltiples voces y donde el punto de lenguas y los Estudios del discurso en contextos
ventaja lo constituye el dialogismo basado en la educativos como escenarios donde acontece lo
experiencia colectiva que le da formas y ángulos social plural. (Castañeda-Peña, 2014, p.7)
variados a la identidad.
Al hablar de ángulos identitarios nos referimos En relación con la Educación y el desarrollo
en verdad a trayectorias de participación profesional de profesores de lenguas, Ekiaka-
(Wortham, 2006) en la medida en que un Nzai, Feng y Reyna nos demuestran a partir de
cambio hacia lo digital también comprende la una intervención pedagógica como los profesores
historia vivida de nuestra revista académica en el de lenguas en educación inicial pueden acceder
formato impreso durante un número importante con facilidad al aprendizaje cyber y así calificar
de años. Todos los momentos históricos que sus prácticas pedagógicas futuras. Prácticas
ha vivido el Colombian Applied Linguistics similares son construidas por Viáfara quien centra
Journal hacen parte de su identificación el aprendizaje de profesores en formación en
social y de su propio aprendizaje académico la estrategia de pares orientado por la premisa
compartido con sus lectores. Ahora, el Colombian de que en la participación en comunidades de
Applied Linguistics Journal como parte de su profesores en formación es que uno se vuelve
natural trayectoria persigue ser parte de una miembro de una comunidad y aprende. Con
comunidad imaginada (Kanno & Norton, 2003). el mismo argumento, Carreño sustenta la idea
Esta comunidad imaginada se comprende de que en la colaboración como un medio
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Colomb. Appl. Linguist. J.
ISSN 0123-4641 • ISSNe 2248-7085 • Vol 16, No 2 (Jul-Dec 2014). pp. 131-134
Towards a ‘figured’ and ‘imagined’ world for the Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
Harold Castañeda-Peña
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ISSN 0123-4641 • ISSNe 2248-7085 • Vol 16, No 2 (Jul-Dec 2014). pp. 131-134