Hidalgo

In 2005, a group of academics from various institutions of higher education in Mexico initiated a study aimed at generating a state of knowledge of the field of foreign language research in our country for the period 2000-2005. As a result of this effort, we produced the book Las investigaciones sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras en México (Research on the teaching and learning of foreign languages in Mexico). As a result of this publication, several academics from different states not included in the original sample expressed their interest in also documenting and analyzing what was being done in their states. Thus, the idea was born to carry out a second phase of the research that would make it possible to account for the production of the missing states and to elaborate a more global panorama of what was happening in our country in the mentioned field.16 researchers and 21 collaborators from 11 institutions of higher education (IES) participated in the first phase of the research, carried out in 2005, covering 15 states of the Mexican Republic, covering the research carried out between 2000 and 2005. In the second phase, carried out between 2007 and 2008, 27 researchers and six collaborators from 10 HEIs participated, who analyzed data from 11 states from the same period, and some of them, additionally, collected data from works carried out between 2006 and 2007.Thus, both phases of the research involved a total of 70 researchers (43 main researchers and 27 collaborators), assigned to 21 higher education institutions, who between 2005 and 2008 collected and analyzed information from 26 of the 32 states in the country.