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Tackling complex listening texts in an esp course for investment experts
(2023)La comprensión auditiva es un aspecto clave en la comunicación y el contexto del IFE no es una excepción a esto. En la literatura, los resultados más prominentes son estudios acerca de estrategias para enseñar comprensión ... -
Facilitamiento de la comprensión auditiva a través de la estrategia de entrenamiento en un curso de inglés para fines religiosos
(2023)El presente trabajo de investigación engloba dos partes, la primera el análisis de necesidades de una población de estudiantes de inglés para fines específicos del campo de la religión y el diseño del curso English for ... -
Teacher perceptions about the incorporation of mobile devices in a Costa Rican Secondary School: A double-edged sword
(2022-11)The main purpose of this Phenomenological study was to explore select Costa Rican secondary teachers' perceptions about the use of mobile devices in the classrooms. Ten secondary teachers from a high school located at the ... -
FUNREAD: A Co-designed online learning platform to enhance english language skills and promote diversity among Costa Rican ELLs
(2022)En esta presentación se describió la plataforma digital que se está desarrollando como parte del proyecto de investigación C2330 "Diseño e implementación del aplicativo FUNREAD: una herramienta de mediación pedagógica para ... -
Discussing a Concept for an Online Learning Platform with Rural Sixth-Grade Students in Mind: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Designers, Teachers, and Policy Change
(2023)This study is a branch of a larger research project on the design process of FUNREAD, an online learning platform, co-designed with English language teachers (ELTs), that promotes linguistic and sociocultural learning among ... -
Social medias: Costa Rican remote learning tools in times of COVID-19
(2022)Presenté como Ponente Principal "Key note Speaker" en la Conferencia Internacional "Media, Language and Society: Perspectives and Reflections on the Mediatization of Culture" llevada acabo el 10 y 11 de enero del 2022. -
Diseño e implementación del aplicativo FunRead: una herramienta de mediación pedagógica para la enseñanza del inglés a estudiantes de sexto grado de la Escuela Jesús de Nazaret en Liberia
(2022)Este es el reporte del primer año de investigación del proyecto: C2330 DISEÑO E IMPLEMENTACIÓN DEL APLICATIVO FUNREAD: UNA HERRAMIENTA DE MEDIACIÓN PEDAGÓGICA PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS A ESTUDIANTES DE SEXTO GRADO DE ... -
A Needs Analysis for an English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) Accounting Course
(2023)The teaching of English for occupational purposes relies on the insights that a detailed needs analysis on the student-client population provides. This paper reports the findings of a Needs Analysis (NA) conducted on the ... -
Enseñanza del inglés con propósitos ocupacionales en sitio: experiencia de extensión universitaria en un hotel
(2021)Este artículo describe una experiencia de vínculo entre un proyecto de extensión docente universitaria, en este caso ED-3314 La Casa de Idiomas del Recinto de Golfito, con una empresa turística hotelera para brindar cursos ... -
Teaching ESP to Beginner Students: An Analysis of Teaching Practices Suggested in the Literature and Their Perceived Effect on Learning
(2022)Globalization has made job markets extremely competitive, and the revolution in information technology has made real-time communication between people in different parts of the world easy and accessible. In this context, ... -
Patterns of errors in texts written by Costa Rican university English learners: A corpus-aided study
(2022-11-11)The present corpus-aided study sought to identify the grammatical and non-grammatical second language (L2) error patterns of Costa Rican university English learners at all academic levels of a public university. Specifically, ... -
An Analysis of Variation Sources in Written Corrective Feedback Studies: What is the Next Step?
(2020-04-27)While there is a significant amount of compelling evidence to support written corrective feedback (error correction), it is also acknowledged that research findings may not be applicable or conclusive enough given the great ... -
An Updated Typology of Written Corrective Feedback: Resolving Terminology Issues
(2021-03-19)The extensive amount of literature on written corrective feedback has dispelled many doubts that question its effectiveness. However, despite this valid contribution, there is still controversy about pedagogical recommendations ... -
EFL Majors’ Knowledge of Career Paths and the Job Market for English Graduates in Costa Rica
(2022-03-24)The present study sought to ascertain the knowledge of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) majors of their career path possibilities and the job market for English graduates in Costa Rica. A total of 47 senior English ... -
Comprehensive corrective feedback in foreign language writing: The response of individual error categories
(2021-06-09)While the literature on the effect of comprehensive corrective feedback (CF) on overall accuracy is abundant, the body of work employing such a scope to explore error treatability is not, especially when it comes to ... -
English for Electrical Engineering Students: Teaching Practices to Improve the Speaking Skills of Intermediate Students in an Online Task-Based ESP Course
(2022-11-23)La presente investigación tiene como objetivo explorar las prácticas de enseñanza que pueden ayudar a mejorar las habilidades de expresión oral de un grupo estudiantes de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad de Costa ... -
Por una bella avenida de palmeras. La arquitectura y el paisaje del tratamiento de la locura en Costa Rica (1883-1915)
(2022)La separación espacial ha sido una de las respuestas más recurrentes para lidiar con la locura. Si históricamente consistió en el encierro indiscriminado de todo lo considerado indeseable, el paradigma asilar que comienza ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of a course taught to microbiology students: Usefulness of vocabulary, speaking activities, and materials
(2022)This research paper analyzes the extent to which teaching vocabulary and speaking skills to a group of students of Microbiology from the University of Costa Rica can be effective at improving language skills. Therefore, ... -
Spanglish: A Social and Linguistic Phenomenon of Identity Construction from Literary and Cultural Perspectives
(2021)Resumen Esta tesis se propuso como objetivo general analizar la presencia del fenómeno socio-lingüístico conocido como Spanglish y su impacto y efectos socio-culturales en el proceso de construcción de identidad de los ... -
An evaluation of the fulfillment of authenticity and supportiveness, as ESP and TBLT materials development principles, in a business administration and accounting course
(2022-01-13)Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo explorar el grado en que los materiales de clase diseñados para un curso de Inglés para Propósitos Específicos (ESP) y de Enseñanza del Lenguaje Basada en Tareas (TBLT) cumplen los ...
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