Project-based learning and sociocultural competence

Abstract

This research aims to analyze and describe the influence of the Project-Based Learning method through the sociocultural competency of all students in Fifth 01 of English at Universidad Técnica "Indoamérica", which were divided into seven groups of five. This research has a qualitative approach, non-experimental, descriptive, and was carried out virtually, through the ZOOM and Microsoft Teams platforms due to the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic. The intervention process lasted 1 month. In order to fulfill the objective of this research an appropriate checklist instrument was created to be able to analyze the fundamental criteria in sociocultural competence, especially when the PBL method is applied, using the aforementioned instrument, observation data were obtained, which were analyzed representing a low percentage of development of group skills in sociocultural competencies, the reason was that it is not feasible to apply this topic virtually because there are many difficulties to work in groups in this way.