Tenured Scholars
Barahona, Malba
Associate Professor
Associate Professor and English teacher trainer. Her work articulates practice-based training, teacher identity and agency, and educational justice and interculturality. She researches how preservice teachers learn and exercise pedagogical responsibility in diverse and unequal school contexts.
Main areas of study: Initial English Language Teacher Training (L2), Teacher Identity and Agency, Interculturality and Educational Justice in ELT
Education
| Job title | Institution that grants it | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy (Education) | Australian National University (ANU) | 2014 |
| Master's Degree in Linguistics, majoring in English | Universidad de Chile | 2005 |
| Professor of English | Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE) | 1993 |
Teaching and training of researchers
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Classroom Research | A1006 |
| Seminar | A1010 |
| Teaching and Learning – Primary I | ED0507 |
| Teaching and Learning – Primary II | EDU508 |
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Seminar on Contemporary Problems in Education | EDU4044 |
| Methodological Directed Study | EDU4048 |
| Year | Type | Name | Student |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Traditional | Understanding preservice teachers' literary competence through picturebooks | Gabriel Romero |
| 2026 | Knitting understandings: Exploring teacher educators' understandings of interculturality in Chilean initial teacher education for English teachers | Daniela Appelgreen | |
| 2022 | Traditional | Development of preservice teachers' literary competence through guided readings on picture books | Gabriel Romero |
Research Projects
| Year | Type | Name | Role | See more. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024–2025 | Internal Competition (UC English Pedagogy) | Word Bridges: A Teaching Model for Teaching English with Children's Literature and Interculturality in Chile | Responsible Investigator | |
| 2021-2025 | FONDECYT Regular | FONDECYT 1210867 Investigating the development of professional pedagogical responsibility of English language student teachers in Chile | Responsible Investigator | Go to projectlaunch |
| 2021-2023 | FONDECYT Regular | FONDECYT 1210392 Analyzing the influence of university rankings on institutional practices in Chilean Higher Education | Co-Investigator | Go to projectlaunch |
| 2017-2020 | FONDECYT Initiation | FONDECYT Project Nº 11170340: Developing and enacting knowledge for teaching English in Chile: a study of pre-service teachers' learning trajectories throughout their progressive practicums | Responsible Investigator | |
| 2015-2017 | CONICYT-PAI | Improving Collaboration between schools and universities to support more effectively pre-service teachers' learning | Responsible Investigator |
Publications
Recent
Author
Year
Title
Magazine
Volume
Pages
DOI
Barahona, M., Darwin, S., & Ibaceta‐Quijanes, X.
2025
Do EFL Teacher Educators “Practice What They Preach”? Tensions in the Situated Teaching Practices of EFL Teacher Educators
TESOL Quarterly
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2. Barahona, M., & Darwin, S.
2024
Exploring tensions in integrating core practices into initial EFL teacher education programs in the Chilean context.
Language Teaching Research
28 (6)
2276-2299
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3. Darwin, S., & Barahona, M.
2023
Making research (more) real for future teachers: a classroom-based research model for initial teacher education.
Educational Action Research
31 (4)
745–761
Barahona, M., & Toledo-Sandoval, F.
2022
Exploring Chilean EFL student teachers' development of teacher identity through perezhivanie
Journal of Language, Identity & Education
21 (5)
379–394
Barahona, M., & Ibaceta-Quijanes, X.
2022
Chilean EFL student teachers and social justice: Ambiguity and uncertainties in understanding their professional pedagogical responsibility
Teaching Education
33 (4)
421–437
Barahona, M., Delaporte‐Raurich, C., & Ibaceta‐Quijanes, X.
2021
“It is impossible to teach English in English”: Preservice teachers' struggles to facilitate L2 comprehensibility in English.
Tesol Journal
12 (2)
e578
Barahona, M., & Davin, KJ
2021
A Practice-Based Approach to Foreign Language Teacher Preparation: A Cross-Continental Collaboration.
Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
23 (1)
181-196
Barahona, M.
2020
Developing and enacting professional pedagogical responsibility: a CHAT perspective.
The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL
9 (2)
63–78
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Barahona, M.
2020
The potential of translanguaging as a core teaching practice in an EFL context.
System
95, 102368
Barahona, M.
2019
What matters to supervisors and is this reflected in what they do? Analyzing the work of university supervisors of the practicum.
Journal of Education for Teaching
45 (3)
262-276
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Barahona, M.
2016
Challenges and accomplishments of ELT at primary level in Chile: Towards the aspiration of becoming a bilingual country.
Education policy analysis archives
24 (82)
Books
Author
Year
Title
Editorial
DOI / URL
Veliz, L., Barahona, M., & Darwin, S.
2025
Critiquing the Teaching and Learning of English in Chile: Challenges and Opportunities for Transformative Practice
Routledge.
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Barahona, M.
2016
English Language Teacher Education in Chile: a Cultural Historical Activity Theory Perspective..
Routledge
Book chapters
Author
Year
chapter title
Editors
Book Title
Pages
Editorial
DOI/Url
Barahona, M., David, V., Guzmán, MC Ó., Pavez, N., Salas, C., & Stöckel, P.
2025
Embracing Dialogic Feedback in Chilean Efl Teacher Education: A Self-Study of Teacher Educator Practices
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Transformative L2 Teacher Education Innovations
203-227
Routledge
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Barahona, M., & Darwin, S.
2025
Looking from the outside in: Action research in initial language teacher education
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The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research
295-306
Routledge
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Barahona, M., & Ibaceta‐Quijanes, X.
2025
Chile, English
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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes
1-13
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Barahona, M., & Hao, J.
2024
Moving Beyond Vocabulary: EFL Preservice Teachers' Challenges Integrating Content and Language.
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Content and Language Integrated Learning in South America
147-166
Springer Nature Switzerland
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Rovira, À. FR, & Barahona, M.
2023
). Identity and Perezhivanie in Vocational Training
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Sociocultural Theory and Spanish as a Foreign Language
238-252
Routledge
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Commitment
Management Responsibilities at the Faculty or University
2023 – Present:Director of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Education, UC
2023 – Present: President of the Curriculum Committee of the Faculty of Education at the UC
2021 - 2022: Executive Editor of PEL Magazine,
Member of the Ethics Committee for Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Social Impact
2020: Member of the English Pedagogy Curriculum Committee
2022 - 2023: Member of the Fondecyt Higher Education Study Group
