Bachelor of English Teaching

General objective:

• Train professionals in the teaching of English as a foreign language who, in addition to mastering their mother tongue, achieve an advanced level of comprehension and production, both oral and written, of English, and have psycho-pedagogical, linguistic and sociocultural knowledge that enables them to plan, design, implement and evaluate educational programs and processes aimed at learning the English language in school contexts at the basic, upper secondary and higher education levels.
• To train professionals in the teaching of English as a foreign language who have initial training in one of the three fields of specialization related to the teaching of English as a foreign language that are listed below: bilingual education, use of information technologies and of communication in the teaching of a foreign language, or English for specific purposes. With this specialized training, professional development possibilities will open up that will allow you to connect with other professional fields where knowledge of English and its teaching are essential.

• Provide the student with the knowledge required to achieve a complete mastery of the comprehension and production of English and Spanish. Also provide you with the cultural, political and social knowledge to understand the contexts where both Spanish and English are developed and used, allowing you to obtain a complete command of both languages ​​as well as contrasting skills in both their linguistic and cultural aspects.
• Provide it with the theoretical and practical elements related to the process of learning a foreign language, both in its pedagogical and linguistic aspects. It is intended that the student knows and applies different techniques and methodological and pedagogical approaches to the teaching/learning of English as a foreign language and that he is able to evaluate and apply them to the concrete reality where he carries out his professional activity, for the resolution of specific problems in his field.
• Train him for the design of study plans and educational materials in specialized curricular programs in the teaching of English as a foreign language. It is sought that they can design study plans and programs as well as didactic material for the teaching of English according to realities and specific needs and that they can evaluate the results objectively and critically.
• Initiate you in research activities on the teaching of English as a foreign language. The student will thus be able to participate in research projects, both in the area of ​​teaching/learning English and in those of an interdisciplinary nature that require experience and knowledge of applied linguistics.
• Train him in the use of information and communication technologies applied to education, in particular, those used in the teaching systems of English as a foreign language.
• Initiate the professional in an area of ​​specialization that allows him to link with alternate professional fields where the knowledge he has acquired is essential.