Exploratory study of the current undergraduate’s profile of Licenciatura en Idioma Inglés, Opción Enseñanza of The University of El Salvador, and its connection with the professional exigencies of today’s society.
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2009-06-01
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As a result of the globalization, El Salvador has seen itself in the necessity of competing in the world market using English as an international language, since by means of this lots of advantages can be achieved, like the access to new technologies and scientific investigations of great importance for the human development. Therefore, the Foreign Languages Department (FLD) of the University of El Salvador (UES) has developed the curriculum of Licenciatura en idioma inglés, opción enseñanza, which aims at providing to the country qualified integral professionals with scientific sense able to face the educational reality in the Salvadoran social context nowadays. Such aspirations are reflected in the undergraduate’s profile of this major, which possesses specific requirements in the linguistics, investigation, methodology and general formation areas, in which the developing professionals in English teaching must be instructed along the major. Nevertheless, it was suggested that such profile should be brought up to date periodically so that it satisfactorily responds to the exigencies of the new era. This research constitutes an exploratory study of the current undergraduate’s profile of Licenciatura en idioma inglés, opción enseñanza, facing the new professional demands. It is divided into the following parts: an introduction to the topic, its corresponding objectives, theoretical and methodological frameworks, data analysis, a chronogram of activities, and the consulted sources, As the final part, some annexes containing the research instruments that were used are included.
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Enseñanza del idioma inglés