Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges

Javier Augusto Rojas Serrano

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2008-07-01

Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges

Trabajo cooperativo de profesores de un colegio público para crear centros de recursos de lenguas: retrato de sus ventajas, beneficios y desafíos

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Collaborative work, language resource center, teacher professional development (en)
Trabajo colaborativo, centro de recursos de lenguas, desarrollo profesional docente (es)

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Javier Augusto Rojas Serrano Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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In the present article, the author attempts to describe the benefits, challenges, advantages and disadvantages experienced by teachers in a public school when working collaboratively to implement a language resource center in their institution. Taking as a point of departure the development of a proposal to implement the resource center in their school, some teachers engaged in group work in order to attain the different objectives that were stated at the beginning of the process, thus encountering a number of difficulties and challenges. When overcome, these difficulties and challenges rendered good opportunities for teachers to develop further in their professional and personal life as well as to improve the school environment and classroom practice.

En el presente artículo, el autor se propone describir los beneficios, desafíos, ventajas y desventajas que un grupo de profesores de un colegio público encontraron al trabajar colaborativamente para implementar un centro de recursos de idiomas. Tomando como punto de partida la construcción de su propuesta de implementación del centro de recursos para la institución, algunos profesores decidieron trabajar en grupo para alcanzar los objetivos planteados al comienzo del proceso, encontrando una serie de dificultades y desafíos. Al superar dichas dificultades y desafíos, los docentes hallaron oportunidades para su desarrollo profesional y personal así como para el mejoramiento del ambiente escolar y del ejercicio docente.

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Rojas Serrano, J. A. (2008). Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 10(1), 147–162. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/10620

ACM

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Rojas Serrano, J.A. 2008. Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development. 10, 1 (Jul. 2008), 147–162.

ACS

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Rojas Serrano, J. A. Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges. Profile: Issues Teach. Prof. Dev. 2008, 10, 147-162.

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ROJAS SERRANO, J. A. Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 1, p. 147–162, 2008. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/10620. Acesso em: 26 dec. 2025.

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Rojas Serrano, Javier Augusto. 2008. “Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges”. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development 10 (1):147-62. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/10620.

Harvard

Rojas Serrano, J. A. (2008) “Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges”, Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 10(1), pp. 147–162. Available at: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/10620 (Accessed: 26 December 2025).

IEEE

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J. A. Rojas Serrano, “Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges”, Profile: Issues Teach. Prof. Dev., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 147–162, Jul. 2008.

MLA

Rojas Serrano, J. A. “Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges”. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, vol. 10, no. 1, July 2008, pp. 147-62, https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/10620.

Turabian

Rojas Serrano, Javier Augusto. “Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges”. Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development 10, no. 1 (July 1, 2008): 147–162. Accessed December 26, 2025. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/10620.

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Rojas Serrano JA. Teacher Collaboration in a Public School to Set up Language Resource Centers: Portraying Advantages, Benefits, and Challenges. Profile: Issues Teach. Prof. Dev. [Internet]. 2008 Jul. 1 [cited 2025 Dec. 26];10(1):147-62. Available from: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/10620

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