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Lineamientos para la docencia remota

Dada la situación del país ante la emergencia por el COVID-19 y los cambios generados en la educación, los centros de estudio costarricenses se vieron en la necesidad de realizar ajustes a sus metodologías de enseñanza llevándolas a la modalidad virtual. Ante estas circunstancias, muchas inquietudes surgieron sobre la planificación, ejecución y evaluación de aprendizajes tanto por parte del cuerpo docente como estudiantil, y esto ocasionó que no se desarrollara una estandarización de las lecciones virtuales con una misma línea de trabajo.

Descargar Melina Do Rego Brito, Jeffrey Vargas Jiménez, Ana Yansy Morales Solís,
José Pablo Ramírez Alvarado y José Luis Chan Díaz
Lineamientos Académicos y Administrativos para la docencia con componente virtual

La Vicerrectoría de Docencia de conformidad con lo establecido en los artículos 4 incisos a), b), f) y g), 5 incisos b), d), e) y f), 49 inciso ch), 50 incisos a), b), c), ch) y d), 184, 186, 187, 196 y 198 del Estatuto Orgánico, los artículos 3 incisos f), g), t), u), v), w), x), 14, 14 bis, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 37 del Reglamento de Régimen Académico Estudiantil y el Reglamento de Estudio Independiente, el Eje II Excelencia Académica, política 2.6, objetivos 2.6.1) y 2.6.2.) de las Políticas Institucionales 2021-2025, aprobadas por el Consejo Universitario en acuerdo de sesión No. 6357, artículo 6, del 5 de marzo del 2020; dispone:

Descargar Vicerrectoría de Docencia 2020

Proyectos/Publicaciones

Student Self-Evaluation and Autonomy Development in EFL Learning

This paper examines the connection between student self-evaluation strategies and autonomy development in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. To this end, 18 students enrolled in a phonetics class participated in a constructivist-based action research plan. Using different autonomy-oriented instruments, students set their learning goals and self-assessment strategies to foster learner autonomy and evaluated their learning experiences at the end of the semester. The study adopted a triangulation mixed methods design, where quantitative results were used concurrently with the qualitative data. Findings suggest clear-cut connections between self-evaluation strategies and the development of learner autonomy in the context of EFL.

Learner autonomy Self evaluation Constructivism Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Descargar Henry Sevilla Morales,
Roy Gamboa Mena
2016
Patterns in the acquisition of the Spanish trill: A study involving children ages 3;0 to 5;6

This study describes the substitution patterns of the trill found in naturalistic speech by 34 monolingual Spanish-speaking Costa Rican children between ages 3 and 5;6. In the 843 target-words identified, a total of six different phonetic realizations of the trill were found: a trill (2% of the time), an assibilated rhotic (45% of the time), a post alveolar affricate (9% of the time), a voiced labio-dental fricative (17% of the time), a voiced interdental fricative (9% of the time), and a lateral approximant (3% of the time). Interestingly, these phonetic realizations were not used consistently, as children relied on two or more phonetic realizations, regularly within a single session and to pronounce the same word. surfaced most likely as a result of the children’s input, whereas and, which are not part of the children’s input, as well as the other phonetic realizations, surfaced most likely as approximations of the articulatorily very complex trill.

phonetic substitution, Spanish trill, assibilation of rhotics, Costa Rican Spanish, acquisition of trills
Descargar Luz Marina Vasquez Carranza 2018
Señales de resistencia: El criollo en la provincia de Limón, Costa Rica

O artigo relata a situação do crioulo limoense, uma língua minoritária derivada do inglês e do crioulo jamaicano, falada por uma parcela da população afro-costarriquenha. Por meio de um questionário aplicado a quarenta e cinco participantes, é evidenciado que, embora exista uma demanda externa que força esse grupo linguístico a usar o espanhol para o trabalho e a educação, o crioulo limonense é a língua dominante para a maioria dos afrodescendentes. Essa parcela da população expressa seu orgulho de ser afrodescendente, destacando sua gastronomia, sua música calypso e o fato de serem bilíngues como características que os identificam. Eles enfatizam a importância de manter essa língua minoritária para que possam transmiti-la às novas gerações como uma estratégia de proteção identitária e preservação da sua cultura e tradições.

línguas de minorias, crioulo limoense, população afrocostarriquense, resistência, música calypso
DescargarVer enlace Luz Marina Vásquez Carranza 2019
The testing of listening in bilingual secondary schools of Costa Rica: bridging gaps between theory and practice

Despite listening being one of the most crucial skills in the process of communication, research shows that it has been neglected in most English as a Foreign Language (EFL) programs, both worldwide and in Costa Rica. Worse yet, mismatches between theory and practice often result in poor listening assessment in many institutions. Thus, this article examined current listening testing practices by Ministry of Public Education (in Spanish, MEP) in-service teachers ranked C1 according to the Common European Framework (CEF) in bilingual secondary schools of the West Area of Costa Rica. Listening tests created and administered by those teachers were analyzed for their compliance with both theory on listening assessment and MEP’s guidelines on assessment. The study revealed that even though teachers had previously received training on testing, the tests they created do not fully comply with both MEP’s guidelines and theoretical principles on listening assessment. Findings expand conclusions drawn by Gamboa and Sevilla (2013) in previous research on listening assessment and provide several contributions to the current bulk of literature on listening testing practices in Costa Rica. Such conclusions also reveal areas of listening assessment that need to be further tackled through teacher training.

Listening skills Teaching English as a Foreign Language High School
Descargar Roy Gamboa Mena,
Henry Sevilla Morales
2014
This article results from a research project developed in Costa Rica, specifically, in the central western region. Its main objective is of findings that shed light on the socio-historical principles and construction of teacher knowledge of English langua

This article analyzes the construction of masculinity in Devi Mahasweta’s “The Hunt”. Michael Kimmel and R.W. Connell’s work on gender identity are used as a theoretical support to identify the different masculine archetypes present in the text. Also, masculinity is conceived as a discursive structure determined by the socio-historical conditions that interpellate individuals; in this case, capitalism. Finally, it is concluded that each character embodies a particular, and in some cases more than one, male identity in conflict. These male identities are the result of capitalist and cultural globalizing processes that affect the Kuruban society.

The Hunt, Devi Mahasweta, Kuruba, identidad de género, masculinidad, discurso
Descargar Karla Araya Araya 2011
Assessing the Quality of Paraphrases Written by Third Year Costa Rican EFL Students

The aim of this study was to assess factors affecting the quality of paraphrases written by college level EFL learners. A three-dimensional paraphrasing competence model by McCarthy, Guess, and McNamara (2009) was followed to assess the texts for semantic completeness, lexical difference, and syntactic difference. The selected method was a mixed method approach. The quantitative analysis was used to measure the rate of success of each paraphrasing competence whereas the qualitative analysis aimed to describe the perceived difficulty of the competences and the reasons behind it. The subjects were 17 EFL students enrolled in a third year English composition course at the University of Costa Rica. The corpus of the study consisted of 51 paraphrases. Following three rounds of examinations and the analysis of students’ perceptions, the lexical dimension emerged as the most challenging area interfering with paraphrase quality, with semantic completeness also emerging as difficult. Other factors affecting paraphrase quality were inappropriate use of passive voice, style and register, and inaccurate lexical substitutions. The study concluded with recommendations to improve instructional cycles by reinforcing reading comprehension and lexical development, and by assessing the different dimensions of paraphrasing separately.

paraphrasing, academic writing, english as a foreign language, higher education
DescargarVer enlace José Miguel Vargas Vásquez, Randolph Zúñiga Coudin 2019
Indirectness Features in Argumentative Essays of Costa Rican EFL University Students

This study aimed to determine the frequency of occurrence of a set of indirectness features in argumentative essays. A taxonomy of indirectness features developed by Hinkel (1997) was employed to classify the features under scrutiny into rhetorical, lexical/referential, and syntactic. The study followed a statistical descriptive design to describe a sample of 30 essays. The essays were written by a group of English as a Foreign Language students in a composition course at the western branch of the University of Costa Rica. The frequency of occurrence of indirectness features was calculated per 100 words with an average number of words in the essays of 798. Additionally, the percentage of each feature compared to total indirectness in the essays and the standard deviations of the frequencies were calculated for the analysis. The results revealed that the four indirectness features representing potential recurrent patterns were subordination, vague determiners, delayed claims, and unnecessary adjectivals. Due to the rhetorical or lexical nature of the features, the researchers recommend that instructors pay increased attention to vocabulary acquisition and to the organization of ideas when raising awareness of differences in communication style.

Academic writing Argumentation Second Language Writing
Descargar José Miguel Vargas Vásquez,
Randolph Zúñiga Coudin
2017
Epistemological and axiological principles of the english teacher knowledge

This article shows the results of an ethnographic research carried with a group of four teachers working in rural high schools from San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica. The main objective is to analyze the constitutive epistemological and axiological elements of the English teacher knowledge of this population. Data were collected through multiple non-participatory class observations, semi and structured interviews. The results evidence four principal areas of knowledge identified as the technical content domain, the methodological domain, the legalinstitutional domain and the economic domain. There is evidenced a huge concern on technical linguistic and methodological matters as well as on the need of administrative and legal considerations to teach and learn English. Finally, the English teaching learning process is valued ad appreciated because it has an apparent economical benefit.

TEACHER KNOWLEDGE, ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING-LEARNING, BILINGUAL FORMAL COSTA RICAN EDUCATION
Descargar Gustavo Córdoba González,
Karla Araya Araya
2010