Educational Research by Tatiana Linares
“ Cultural and linguistic immersion through digital resources to improve the quality as in learning as in teaching English as a foreign language in Colombia” RESEARCH PROBLEM The MEN (Ministerio de Educación Nacional) has planned different goals to reach bilingualism through the last decade. Despite their effort, those reasonable and optimistic goals seem to be far from Colombian education in the way I see it as a teacher who is in classrooms diary. Course, I think, we are the main responsible for taking the lead with these plans and improving in our professional area. But I consider there is a key aspect in Learning and Teaching English that should be included in the syllabus that is: cultural and linguistic immersion. If we analyze with reliable sources of information, we can show that there is a low percentage of students even and worst teachers that can aim to go other countries to improve their communicative skills, considering that language target is worth to communicate an...