Perspectives about the pedagogical learning strategies in foreign languages of the Modern Languages Degree Program at the Universidad del Cauca - Sede Norte Santander De Quilichao – Cauca – Colombia

Abstract

The main objective of this research work was to know the different perceptions that students and teachers of The Modern Languages Degree Program have about the strategies proposed by the PEP (Pedagogical Project of the Program) of the Universidad del Cauca in Santander de Quilichao, North Campus, given the need to know what would be the strategies of the PEP that allow learning a foreign language, it was considered important to carry out this research with 9th and 10th semester students of The Modern Languages Degree Program in Santander de Quilichao, as well as with some teachers of the program. The methods used to examine this research were the use of surveys consisting of some open questions and other multiple-choice questions to be previously analyzed and contrasted with the PEP, and thus yield a descriptive analysis of the responses. During the execution of the analysis carried out in this research, many similarities could be found between the answers of teachers and students. The cooperative and direct learning strategies played an important role, being the most significant and most used in many cases by teachers and students to learn a foreign language, as well as the importance of the system rooms, and the need for more equipment, such as microphones, headphones, more time in the laboratories and many more dynamics that include these elements, all in favor of having good results and making learning more advantageous for them.