Percepciones del Bilingüismo en un Ambiente de Aprendizaje: Estudio de Caso en Un grupo de Estudiantes de Educación Superior en una Institución Privada

Abstract

The objective of this case study is to establish the factors that affect the development of bilingualism, based on the socio-educational characteristics and the perceptions about the learning of the foreign language English in students of a private higher education institution from rural and urban contexts. The investigative approach was qualitative-interpretative, descriptive in scope, applying instruments of direct participant observation and survey, which made it possible to identify socioeconomic and educational characteristics and the perceptions that affect the development of bilingualism. According to the Ministry of National Education (2006) Grade 11 students reach an intermediate level of proficiency in English (B1), an aspect that is not perceived. This evidences the need to propose guidelines that allowredirecting the ABA, promoting environments in which students whose origin affectsthat they do not reach the expected level, manage to match or equate their skills through the implementation of a level 0 of English, center the same in the interests and perceptions of the students, that the role of the teacher is transformed by acting as a facilitator of learning and that he contributes with teachers and directors of other institutions to create adequate academic spaces, in which there is coherence and relevance with the policy public and what happens in the ABA during the learning of English as a foreign language.