Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación
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Item type:Ítem, Mother tongue and speaking skill(Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros, 2022-03-01) ;Andrade Rojas, Christopher PatricioSuárez Mosquera, Wilma ElizabethLearning a new language has always been complicated but rewarding for students, it has always been said that if to learn a new language it is necessary to use our mother tongue or learning should be authentic only with the use of the new foreign language for a better exposure to it. The focus of this research is to determine if the use of the mother tongue influences the learning of the English language and the development of the speaking skill. This was a descriptive research with a mixed approach in a qualitative and quantitative design with a group of 26 participants. They were from an intermediate B1 and advanced level of English at “Glenn Doman” school. At the beginning of the research, a checklist and a survey were developed. The observations to students and teachers were completed in four sessions for each level. At the end a survey was applied only to the students to take into account their point of view about this problem. Finally, the data gathered was analysed using Chi-Cuadrado statistical test. The results demonstrated that the use of the mother tongue in speaking skill influences students when learning the English language.Item type:Ítem, Code-switching and the English(Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación-Carrera de Idiomas, 2021-03-01) ;Arévalo Peralta, Josué JosafatInfante Paredes, Ruth ElizabethThe present research is expected to cover an investigation with the following topic “Code-switching and the English language” which mainly investigates the relationship between the variables and how students are affected by code-switching during their academic performance. This investigation was lead and coordinated by applying the quali-quantitative approach in a validated survey that allows the examiner to know the relationship between the variables. The subjects of the examination were all the “Unidad Profesionalizante” Fourth to Seventh-semester university students and teachers of the “Carrera de Idiomas” at Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Discerning the results of the present research the conclusion is drawn as the following. English language students are influenced by code-switching when learning or teaching the target language. Consequently, code-switching (English-Spanish) during an English lesson is greatly beneficial for ESL students’ academic performance
