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Students develop deep conceptual knowledge in a discipline only by using the habits of reading, writing, and thinking (McConachie et al., 2006; Schleppegrell, 2004).

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Students often spend much of their school day listening to teachers and then completing assignments related to the teachers’ mini-lessons or lectures. They have limited opportunities to orally process what they are learning, to make meaning in the company of their peers, and to read or write for authentic purposes.

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how languages are used and what learners/users can do with the language

What will they need to do with the language?

What will they need to learn in order to do what they want?

What makes them want to learn?

What sort of people are they?

What knowledge, skill, and experiences do their teachers possess?

What access do they have to resources?

How much time can they afford to spend? (CEF, 2001 p. 4)

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“Because Colombian standards for foreign language teaching are barely structured, attention has been given to foreign models. In general, standards have been obtained by importing the ones that were developed in other places, under different circumstances and contexts. Although those standards are valid and reliable for foreign academic communities, it does not mean that they would fit the particularities of our institutions, language learners and so on”.

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According to MEN publication “Al Tablero” (October 2005), it is expected that the “Programa Nacional de Bilingüismo” (The national Bilingual Colombia Program) will be fully implemented by the year 2019. This project has focused on adapting standards from Europe to be applied in Colombia, a bold move given the fact that the similarities between that context and the Colombian one are basically non-existent, and that the Common European Framework (CEF) was created under different circumstances and with different purposes.

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“Colombia Bilingüe”. The effectiveness of this type of project depends on academic requirements and issues that might be neglected while focusing on the outcome rather than on the process of expecting foreign language learners to become proficient in it.

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http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1657-07902008000100011

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we need to teach students how to think for themselves