Verbal Aptitudes for the Comprehensive Diagnosis of the Learning of English as a Foreign Language in Major in Education, English Specialty, at the University of Pedagogical Sciences "José de la Luz y Caballero" in Holguín
Abstract
This Diploma Paper is intended to increase the efficiency of the comprehensive
diagnosis process of the learning of English as a foreign language through the
variable verbal aptitudes in order to give a solution to the increasing low efficiency in
the career Major in Education, English Specialty, caused by an insufficient diagnosis
and characterization of the students. The main intention of the research, beyond
diagnosing the students themselves, is run trial of the tools devised to be used in the
2014-2015 school courses for diagnosing freshmen. This investigation is one of the
results of the Major Research Project of the Department of Foreign Language,
English, at the University of Pedagogical Sciences “José de la Luz y Caballero”.
Thus, the present work is divided into three chapters. The first chapter deals with
theoretical and facto-perceptible elements as well as the current state of the learning
diagnosis in the career Major in Education, English Specialty, at the University of
Pedagogical Sciences “José de la Luz y Caballero”. It also contains several
definitions of diagnosis as a process, and functions that the diagnostic processes
should carry out from a pedagogical profile.
The second chapter includes the proposal, verbal aptitudes, its dimensions and
instruments, that allow to diagnose not only what the students do not know but also
to explain the causes of why they do not learn as well as their potentialities for future
development.
The third chapter deals with the corroboration of the proposal developed through a
Critical Reflection Workshop and experimentations on verbal aptitudes with the
participation of the Integrated English Practice staff and a sample of freshmen.