Systematization of the english remote learning practices during the pandemic at Univalle satellite Buga year 2020-2022.

Abstract

This research paper exposes the results of the systematization of an educational practice at Universidad del Valle in Cali Satellite Buga, during 2020-2022 in which the participants were students of the subject English for Academic and General Purposes (Inglés con Fines Generales y Académicos) and their teachers. The Valle university offers students a minimum of three levels and a maximum of four levels of English to all the programs. Besides of fulfilling the requirements each program must get graduated, the English program has a communicative approach in which students are aimed to developed basic communicative skills, in a bilingual and multicultural environment, where a second language favors the academic, personal, and professional life to students. The main objective of this systematization is to organize, analyze and interpret three remote English learning experiences in order to identify which strategies and good practices enhanced the English communicative competence of university students in terms of the four linguistic skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, the following paper aims to critically analyze the most significant strategies, methodologies, and activities that have given either, positive or negative results in students from their application amid the three remote learning semesters during the Pandemic period. Above all, the idea is to carry out an investigation that integrates results and a proposal that contains a set of activities and strategies that are effective to enhance communicative skills in students at Valle university, Buga satellite that can be used nowadays as support for the face-to-face classes.