Communicative approach as a didactic strategy to improve English oral expression in times of pandemic

Introduction: Oral communication is the most important skill in learning a foreign language. The conventional English teaching method that is applied at different educational levels based on grammar and writing, does not allow the development of communication skills necessary for the Covid-19 pandemic. Communication is the process through which ideas are sent and received. In this sense, the communicative approach takes on a special importance that communication is the ba-sis of the teaching-learning process. Method: The research approach was quantitative with a descriptive scope. Results. The investigation found that the oral expression strategies met 58.2% of conditions at the beginning, 37.8% presented the process level and 4.1% presented the achieved level. The strategies carried out to improve pronunciation were found at 33.7% in initial conditions, 60.2% were present at the level in the process and 6.1% at the achieved level. In the strategies for improving fluidity, 42.9% presented at the beginning level, 44.9% presented at the process level and 12.2% presented at the achieved level and while the strategies for vocabulary improvement were found at 33.7% of conditions at the beginning, 50% present the level in process and the 16.3% present the level achieved.

University digital literacy in engineering students times of pandemic

The purpose of this study is to contextualize the digital literacy of university students within the current pandemic, taking into account the development of skills and challenges of this new digital era. Analyze, in addition, its scope and limits for the development of students, who continue with their professional studies despite confinement. It was a quantitative-descriptive study, with sociodemographic variables (age, sex, time of connectivity);The sample consisted of engineering students from a public university: 213 men (64.5%) and 117 women (35.5%) from the fifth cycle of the degree. The Area instrument (2014) was used. Digital literacy and the formation of citizenship of the XXI century. We conclude that digital literacy will continue to expand more and more, since education is based on virtuality due to the covid-19 pandemic, so that this modality will continue to expand so that students continue with their higher studies normally, developing technological knowledge.