Strategies for Achieving the Bachelor of English in Foreign Language of the Distance Education Program At USTA

Abstract

English is a language that in Colombia has been synonymous of complexity expressed by many students to whom their understanding and learning sometimes become in a process which generates fear and anxiety, situation that in a rural area where the Access to education and to technologic resources is very limited the English learning becomes in a privilege, that is, for those people whom have the chance of studying at Universities or in educative Institutions; In this way, the distance education is a modality which represent a solution or an option for people whom live in rural areas, whom haven’t in their town Universities and they need money and time to travel until the next city. However, studying English through of a screen is not so simple as it seems, there are some factors that are part of the social, family, cultural and economic context of students, which influence and affect their learning process, but of any way these situations and experiences allow to students be more autonomous and creative to find the necessary strategies in order to achieve the objectives, and these strategies are the main focus of my thesis, a narrative research which belongs to subproject 3 of the program LLEI of the Universidad Santo Tomás, in which through of narratives, a frame and a multimodal data, allowed me compile each one of my experiences studying at distance modality, synthesize, codify and analyze the information, and of this way identify which were those strategies that I implemented in each one of difficult situations in my learning process; likewise, allowed me elaborate important conclusions which become today in a contribution to LLEI program of the Universidad Santo Tomás and in general to students and educative institutions which work under the modality distance in Colombia.