Bilingualism national program created as a virtual learning community generating commucation skills in civil engineering

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https://doi.org/10.26507/rei.v12n24.798

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Civil Engineering Program, Technical English, Communicative Competences, Virtual Learning Community

Abstract

This research explores how the Technical English of Civil Engineering (TECE) of Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina (FUAA) is a model of Virtual Learning Community (CAV), according to the model proposed by Pratt y Palloff (2007), where it generated some communication skills. It seeks to identify how people learn the English language through the TECE and what skills are acquired when you interact in a CAV. For this reason it is important to identify the components of communication skills to enhance the activities of the English language and comprehension, expression and interaction of students within a CAV. Consequently, this research constitutes an exploratory first phase focused primarily on students enrolled in the TECE as a distinctive feature of internal validity.

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Jairo Alfonso Gutiérrez-de-Piñeres, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina

Ing. Civil en 1995 de la Universidad Industrial de Santander - UIS, Colombia, el título de MSc. en Online Education en 2010 de la UNAD Florida y doctorando en Ciencias de la Educación en la Universidad de Cuauthemoc de Méjico. Desde el 2005 ha estado trabajando en la UNAD como tutor virtual en la Escuela de Ingeniería y en la Escuela de Educación. Se vinculó a la Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina – FUAA, sede Valledupar en el año 2015 y es profesor del programa de Ingeniería Civil.

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Published

2017-08-01

How to Cite

Gutiérrez-de-Piñeres, J. A. (2017). Bilingualism national program created as a virtual learning community generating commucation skills in civil engineering. Revista Educación En Ingeniería, 12(24), 101–106. https://doi.org/10.26507/rei.v12n24.798

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