Promoting Critical Spoken Reflections about Women Farmers Using Community-Based Project

Abstract

ABSTRACT : This action research aimed determining to what extent Community-Based Projects provided opportunities for students to reflect critically about women farmers using spoken language. It was conducted in a rural institution located in El Carmen de Viboral, Antioquia with 10th graders. The actions implemented integrated the combination of CommunityBased Pedagogy and Project-Based Learning. Data instruments used were a journal entry, a focus group, and a checklist. Findings present evidence gathered from five caseparticipants, such as, Students Critically Reflect on Issues Affecting Women Farmers in their Community by Identifying their Stereotypes, Becoming Active Agents by Proposing and Contributing to Solutions to the Issues Affecting Women Farmers and, Enhancement of Student’s spoken Production Through Linguistic Resources as Codeswitching and Sentence Starters.