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- Title
Students' Perceptions Regarding their B.A. in English Language Graduate.
- Authors
López, Enrique Vez; Velázquez, Briseida Jiménez
- Abstract
This paper examines the perception undergraduate students have, regarding the attributes they have developed in terms of transferable and communicative skills. The goal was to shed light on how undergraduate students, in the context of this research, perceive their graduate profile. This study was carried out at a university school of foreign languages in southeast Mexico over the course of a year, from August 2016 to July 2017. Thirty male and female students participated in the study. Their ages ranged from 21 to 30 years old. They all were about to complete the last term of the BA program at the time the data were collected. The data collection tools used for this inquiry were interviews and surveys. The interviews were used to get an insight, in general terms, into the participants' perceptions whereas the surveys provided richer information about the students' perceived competences and skills. Content analysis was used to process the data, which were coded classified, summarized. The data suggest that students perceived gains in critical thinking skills, research skills, language skills, autonomy, and motivation as part of the attributes they developed within the program. However, attributes regarding teaching skills, learning strategies, technology skills, teamwork and ability to develop new projects and ideas are perceived as poorly developed or not acquired at all.
- Subjects
MEXICO; ENGLISH language; LEARNING strategies; SENSORY perception; CRITICAL thinking; GRADUATES; STUDENT attitudes; COMMUNICATIVE competence
- Publication
GIST: Education & Learning Research Journal, 2019, Issue 18, p28
- ISSN
1692-5777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26817/16925777.449