English reading plan supported by digital magazines using the ESP methodology for disciplinary courses in a civil engineering program

Plan lector en inglés apoyado en revistas digitales utilizando la metodología ESP para cursos disciplinares de un programa de ingeniería civil

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Wilson Enrique Torres-Sánchez

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This research article describes the importance of English as a foreign language in the framework of a process of inquiry, gamification, autonomous learning, and digital reading, in response to the objective of developing a digital proposal that enhances the use of technical English applied to the reading plan in some courses of the Civil Engineering program. This program was developed through a virtual environment, based on five discipline-specific interactive magazines, and supported by the learning methodology English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The situation of forced quarantine generated by Covid-19 pushed part of the methodological process and the field work to be 100 % virtual. From about 100 people taking part in the development of this research, correlational in nature, only 58 people made part of the sample intervened. Among the results, we can highlight that the reading plan proposed improved the English level of students in all the five groups intervened, but mostly in two of them. Using Moodle virtual environment and digital magazines made individual work and time management effective, turning the technical English learning process into a playful path with short- and medium-term results. Therefore, the process developed showed that the disciplinary concepts and the occupational need motivated students of the Civil Engineering program to work in another language, in this case English.


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