PROFILE: MELBA LIBIA CÁRDENAS

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Publicado en capital Letter No. 3
Mayo de 2003

Melba Libia Cárdenas

Majored in Modern Languages, associated teacher of Universidad Nacional, editor of PROFILE magazine. She has been teaching the English Didactic courses since 1992 and the Action Research Seminar since 1999. Professor Cárdenas has been a teacher-researcher since she finished her undergraduate studies. As a teacher-researcher, she has covered different and useful topics as evaluation, teacher training, didactics and Action Research in Education.

Some of her major concerns are: in-service teacher training to improve the English language teachers' performance, and teacher's involvement in research as a way of increasing their abilities and opening their personal views in the language-teaching process.
These concerns can be seen in her written production (e.g. "Teacher Researchers as Writers: A Way to Sharing Findings" 1, "Teacher Research as a Means to Create Teachers' Communities in In-Service Programs" 2, "Action Research by English Teachers: An Option to Make Classroom Research Possible" 3), and also in her participation in the "Programas de Desarrollo profesional para Docentes de Inglés de Educación Básica y Media" in the Foreign Languages Department at UN (1995-2000). 

So, as it can be seen Professor Cárdenas has a strong interest in English language teachers' performance and its incidence in the learning process. Furthermore, students who belong to the FLD should appreciate teachers like her.
She is strongly committed to her role and has a big need of sharing and giving the tools to improve the reality of the students who will be her successors.

1 Revista Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal. Number 5. Maestría en Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza del Inglés de la Universidad Distrital: In progress.2 Revista HOW. A Colombian Journal for English Teachers. ASOCOPI. Number 9, 2002 3 Revista Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal. Volume 2, Number 1. Maestría en Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza del Inglés de la Universidad Distrital: Julio 2000

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