This study proposes an innovative approach for English professors who lack the time to engage in professional development (PD) programs, believe such programs are conducted in a decontextualized manner, or regard them as too expensive. Based on a qualitative case study performed from January to September 2018, this study addresses the following question: How can team teaching promote PD for mid-career English as a foreign language university professors? It investigates the types of PD that emerged when two English professors at the University of Costa Rica engaged in synergistic team teaching. Theparticipants team taught a course for students newly admitted into the English-teaching major. In this study, synergistic team teaching is understood as a method in which two professors share classroom space and teaching practices and engage in planning discussions together. To understand what the participants learned when practicing team teaching, data were collected through semi-structured interviews and coded following Creswell and Poth’s (2018) data analysis spiral. The coding was developed in light of the conceptualization of PD developed by Guskey (2002), Sparks (2002), and Johnson (2006). Accordingly, thisstudy identifies instances (during the interview or during the classroom observation) that can be interpreted as change of the classroom practices, change in the attitudes and beliefs of the professors (Guskey, 2002), continuous improvement of teaching and learning (Sparks, 2002), and teacher’s knowledge transformed into practice (Johnson, 2006). This study shows how team teaching offers professors a community of practice in which they can share, discuss, and implement new teaching knowledge. Through team teaching, teachers receive PD benefits that match their classroom context perfectly, enabling them to engage in authentic, fully contextualized learning opportunities.

The current paper is a systematization of EFL experiences around the teaching of suprasegmentals courses from a register-based perspective. Simply put, the proposal is based on the notion that prosodic elements must be taught from a communicative perspective, where speech acts are adjusted to specific communicative situations considering the formality level required (casual, informal, formal, or fixed). To a large degree, the approach derives from the authors’ empirical evidence gained while teaching suprasegmentals at Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica (UNA) and Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) over the course of four years.

El largometraje Imágina (2010), de Adrián Cordero y Roberto Peralta, ejemplifica una operación de escritura transmediática que ha sido poco explorada por los creadores costarricenses: esa que traslada las formas y los contenidos de un espectáculo de danza, concebido para la escena, a una entidad audiovisual cuyas temporalidad y espacialidad son pensadas para la pantalla. El videodanza de Cordero y Peralta “transpone” tres coreografías de Rogelio López: Prohibido adentrarse en el bosque, Cuerpos de la barra y Homenaje a María Cristina (2007-2010). Esta operación de transposición contó con la participación del mismo coreógrafo, así como de las bailarinas y bailarines del grupo Danza abierta, quienes hicieron parte de la versión escénica de las creaciones. Con el texto audiovisual como punto de partida, este artículo examina la escritura transmediática que lo hizo posible; es decir, una operación de transposición constituida por el encuentro y diálogo de dos medios artísticos con sus materiales, códigos, convenciones y potencialidades particulares. El examen llama la atención sobre los intercambios y las tensiones que emergen de la concurrencia de profesionales de dos disciplinas distintas. Se reconoce finalmente en Imágina la productividad de esta diferencia mediática y disciplinar.

Se utilizaron los principios de la Extensión Universitaria en la formación vocacionalagroecológica en la Escuela Primaria “Juan Francisco Aro” de Vega Alta, Camajuaní, VillaClara, con apoyo metodológico del Centro Universitario Municipal (CUM). Se organizaronactividades de capacitación de profesores y familiares para preparar a los alumnos en el amora las plantas, agricultura sostenible, reforestación, uso de abonos orgánicos y consumo dealimentos sanos cultivados en el huerto escolar. El claustro profundizó en los valoresresponsabilidad y planificación para mejorar la calidad del proceso formativo de los niños.

Apolonio de Rodas fue uno de los principales representantes de la poesía griega del período helenístico. En su única obra conservada, Las Argonáuticas, este autor estableció un significativo diálogo con la tradición literaria anterior, especialmente con las epopeyas homéricas. Debido a la desatención que durante mucho tiempo existió con respecto a la literatura helenística, así como a la ausencia de un estudio integrador acerca de la obra de Apolonio en relación con sus antecedentes épicos, este trabajo se propuso realizar un análisis de la intertextualidad (particularmente la hipertextualidad) entre Las Argonáuticas y los poemas de Homero. Los aspectos examinados permitieron concluir que el poeta helenístico conjugó en su epopeya elementos de tradición y de innovación, y estableció un creativo diálogo intertextual con el antiguo aedo, pues a la vez que asimiló magistralmente los principales recursos y motivos de la épica tradicional, incorporó características estéticas propias de su tiempo.

Objective: describe the theoretical model built for measurement of holistic critical thinking in nursing teaching using the Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric. This instrument evaluates the holistic critical thinking. It was originated in the United States (EUA) and translated into Portuguese. Method: a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach. The study was realized at an institution of higher education in South Brazil, after approval by the Committee for Ethics in Research, CAEE No. 72294917.7.0000.5347. Five nursing students and four teachers participated in the study through focus groups sessions. For data analysis, the technique of content analysis was used. Results: metaconcepts and conceptual elements were registered. They gave support to the construction of the theoretical model of holistic critical thinking measurement in nursing teaching. Final Considerations: The built theoretical model has shown to contribute and guide accurate clinical decision making by nursing students.

A look at rhetoric from a stylistic standpoint allows building understanding of current rhetorical practices as evolved forms of rhetoric. By following a qualitative research design described as content analysis by Leedy and Ormrod (2001), the present study describes the style structure differences and similarities in contemporary personal letter writing in English and Spanish as compared to the style structure of letter writing in the middle ages. It was concluded that personal letter writing in both English and Spanish does not fully comply with the style structure cannon of letter writing established for each class. Also, English and Spanish contemporary personal letter writing are rather similar, and the style structure cannons for contemporary personal letter writing in both English and Spanish can be traced back to that of the Middle Ages.

Basado en las condiciones de alta demanda y alto consumo del ibuprofeno, así como, algunas noticias que alarman sobre problemas generados por este fármaco; el presente manuscrito contiene la evidencia del estudio y los resultados obtenidos para las pruebas de calidad fisicoquímicas, ensayadas a tabletas de ibuprofeno de diferentes marcas y potencias que se consumen en Costa Rica; cuyo muestreo se realizó en el año 2018 directamente en comercios y farmacias de la región centro-occidental del país, con miras a monitorear las condiciones del fármaco durante la vida de anaquel del producto, y brindar información veraz a la ciudadanía sobre el estado real del medicamento. Las pruebas de laboratorio se aplicaron en el laboratorio de química de la Universidad de Costa Rica en el Recinto de Grecia, para las cuales se implementaron metodologías oficiales según la USP 39. Los resultados obtenidos para las pruebas de valoración, uniformidad de unidades de dosificación y ensayo de disolución, reflejaron excelentes condiciones para todos y cada uno de los productos implicados en el estudio, al encontrarse estos, dentro de las especificaciones establecidas a nivel farmacopeico

We present the list of amphibians for the El Silencio de Los Ángeles Cloud Forest (Villa Blanca Hotel and Reserve) in San Ramón de Alajuela, Costa Rica, Central America. We performed nocturnal visual and acoustic surveys in the trail system, mainly from 2013 to 2014. We also received data from the local guides up to 2019. We compared the similarity of amphibian richness of our site against other premontane reserves in Costa Rica with a cluster analysis (Jaccard index, single linkage). We recorded 26 species distributed in 16 genera, eight families and two orders. Notrotiton gamezi was the only threatened species detected. The El Silencio de los Ángeles Cloud Forest site is around 80 % similar to San Lorencito River Station and 55% to Nectandra Reserve. Containing 12% of the Costa Rica’s amphibian richness, this premontane woodland should be considered among the most important clouded forest in Central Costa Rica for amphibian conservation.

Ethnobotanical research has acquired significance due to the accelerated loss of traditional knowledge and the decrease of useful species as a consequence of natural habitat degradation. This research rescues the ethnobotanical knowledge of popular specialists and identifies the plants with the highest cultural importance in two communities from the buffer zone of the Alberto Manuel Brenes Biological Reserve. The qualitative ethnobotanical research was conducted with folk culture specialists through the application of in-depth interviews, free lists and ethnobotanical walks. The Cultural Importance Index allowed the identification of the most relevant species for these communities. The use of 214 species or taxonomic groups from 75 botanical families was recorded. The family with the largest number of useful species, Asteraceae, includes mainly herbaceous species used as a medicinal resource, followed by Orchids (Orchidaceae) used to decorate the exteriors of houses or gardens. The most important cultural species was Cipres, Cupressus lusitanica, with multiple uses and secondly, the medicinal plants Neurolaena lobata (Gavilana), Chenopodium acuminatum (Apazote), Salvia rosmarinus and the multi-use tree Acnistus arborescens (Guitite).