Improving cognitive academic language proficiency in students of international studies of Universidad del Azuay

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dc.contributor.advisorCarr, Annees_ES
dc.contributor.authorFajardo Dack, Tammy Mercedeses_ES
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-10T16:37:48Z
dc.date.available2013-06-10T16:37:48Z
dc.date.issued2011es_ES
dc.descriptionBasic Interpersonal Communication Skills and Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency are concepts that help to differentiate language used for every day conversational interactions and language used for academic purposes. The students enrolled in the program of International Studies at the Universidad del Azuay, demonstrate they have the necessary skills to achieve tasks involving interpersonal communication; but at the same time, they have revealed the problems they encounter when dealing with academic situations in which more specialized vocabulary and expressions are needed. Lack of CALP was identified to be one of the problems that are represented by the low grades registered on students files. Research was carried out to demonstrate a relationship between lack of CALP and low performance in students of the second year of International Studies. Thirty two students received a 12-week instruction program based on the Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency Approach (CALLA) to improve their Cognitive Academic Language skills and as result their scores in the English subjects of the program. A pre-test and a post-test determined difference in scores, and in first and second year grades. These differences were statistically analyzed showing a significant increase. The results of the research demonstrate that the development of Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency can be a promising method for improving students performance in University contexts where English is the means for instruction.es_ES
dc.description.cityCuencaes_ES
dc.description.degreeMagíster en Lengua Inglesa y Lingüística Aplicadaes_ES
dc.formatapplication/pdfes_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/handle/123456789/2798
dc.language.isospaes_ES
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTM4;518es_ES
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ec/
dc.subjectTesis De Maestria En Lengua Inglesa Y Lingüistica Aplicadaes_ES
dc.subjectSecond Languagees_ES
dc.subjectLearning Languagees_ES
dc.subjectProficiency Basices_ES
dc.subjectInterpersonal Communicationes_ES
dc.subjectSkillses_ES
dc.subjectCognitive Academices_ES
dc.subjectLanguage Proficiencyes_ES
dc.subjectBicses_ES
dc.subjectCalpes_ES
dc.subjectUniversidad Del Azuayes_ES
dc.titleImproving cognitive academic language proficiency in students of international studies of Universidad del Azuayes_ES
dc.typemasterThesises_ES
dc.ucuenca.paginacion158 páginas

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