Learning a Foreign Language in the Formation of Higher Professional Education

Abstract

For some decades now, the English language has begun a process of global evolution, increasing the number of people who learn to speak this language and, more and more, those who depend on it to get a job and succeed. That is why the learning of English as a second language has been prioritized from the primary levels to the university where their knowledge and skills are increased in language skills. The new competitive profile of professionals in Higher Education, scientific development, the free circulation of professionals at an international level and the growing of socio-cultural diversity require that undergraduate students possess specific competences in a foreign language, especially of spoken and written English, so the discipline of English has occupied a prominent place in the curriculum. To analyze the importance of learning English in higher education, through two interrelated lines: the study of English during university and the usefulness in professional training, an investigation was done with the determination of a referential theoretical framework on the subject, as well as the diagnosis made which allowed the design of a methodology that is based on the philosophical, sociological and psychological principles that support the current pedagogy, located in the cultural historical conception and the communicative approach for teaching of a foreign language.