Browsing Trabajos Finales de Graduación by Author "Vargas Zúñiga, Juan Pablo"
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Challenges and opportunities developing original digital english teaching material in pandemic times
Retana Hernández, Karla (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)There are many reasons why English teachers may create their own digital teaching material even though there is enough online. This essay describes some of the reasons why teachers should create their own digital instructional ... -
Challenges posed by virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic and the opportunities offered by communicative language teaching in Costa Rica
Navarro Céspedes, Valeria (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)Since the COVID-19 started, the education field has been forced to adapt to the new reality to continue with the learning process of students. However, this virtual process took a lot of effort and patience from all the ... -
Development of listening comprehension skills in 8th graders of the Bilingual Experimental High School in Santa Cruz by the promotion of local belonging during online learning
Mojica Barquero, Andrea (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)This essay explores and analyses the implementation of an original website that collects material and learning activities which help students comprehend, and eventually produce the language prompted by input and insights ... -
Estrategias de formación en valores para los procesos de formación científica en la carrera de Enseñanza de las Ciencias en la Universidad Nacional
Campos Granados, Johanna (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)La carrera de Enseñanza de las Ciencias se caracteriza por abordar contenidos específicos de cada área de desarrollo en Física, Química y Biología y demanda que las estrategias metodológicas implementadas respondan a esa ... -
Exploring the possibilities of PAR and communicative competence in curricular negotiations in Costa Rican English learning courses
Cano Morales, Rodrigo (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)Exploring Participatory Action Research and communicative competence in democratic education and curricular negotiations allow delving into social dynamics, reflection and communication in the target language. As a result, ... -
Pedagogical strategies to cater for dyslexic learners in the EFL classroom
Núñez Soto, Rafael (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)This essay seeks to help teachers reflect on the importance of catering for dyslexic individuals in the EFL classroom. For this purpose, a general review of the causes and manifestations of dyslexia will be presented, so ... -
Pedagogical strategies to teach neurodivergent students in the english language classroom
Pereira Chaves, Masiel (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)The term neurodiversity can be explained as the distingsition to those people whose neurological characteristics are different from what is considered standard or typical. The purpose of the paper is to help teachers find ... -
Reading comprehension input benefits on vocabulary acquisition of ESL adult students
Hernández Porras, Francinie (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)This article focuses on the positive effects reading comprehension has on the vocabulary acquisition process of ESL adult learners. The purpose is to show students the benefits of reading comprehension and motivate them ... -
The importance of promoting self-reflection in the pedagogical practice of teachers
Víquez Fernández, Stephanie (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)Teaching is not an easy task because teachers have many and different roles in the class. Part of these roles is to self-reflect about their teaching practice to improve as a teacher and with this to help students to ... -
The myth of native speakers and native speakerism in Costa Rica
Solís Sequeira, Stephanie (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)Speaking English has become the universal language which people use to communicate, nonetheless to what extent do second language learners should master English to the point of having “Native” like mastery. This essay ... -
The promotion of online student-centered classes to achieve Communicative Language Teaching with the help offered by technological tools
Rodríguez Vargas, Genesis (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)Nowadays, teaching virtually has become a challenge due to the COVID 19 emergency. However, with the help of technological tools, English as aforeign language (EFL) classes can be directed towards a student-centered ... -
Three strategies for true beginners of an outreach program of a public university in the current context of education in Costa Rica
Borge González, Lucrecia (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)Many students do not have fundamental knowledge of their first language and do not know some basic concepts such as parts of speech and how they function. They do not know the basic mechanics of writing and do not have the ... -
Understanding the methodology and techniques to teach english for specific purposes in public technical high schools
Piedra Pérez, Wendy Vanessa (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)This paper describes that English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a new tendency suggested by the Ministry of Public Education of Costa Rica for the curricular transformation in all the specialties that the system offers ...