UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO GAVIDIA FACULTY OF: SOCIAL SCIENCES CAREER: LICENCIATURA EN IDIOMA INGLÉS THESIS TOPIC: “The implementation of a virtual course to reinforce the syllabi of the Intermediate English I, Intermediate English II and Advanced English courses of the English Major at Universidad Francisco Gavidia, El Salvador” SUBMITTED BY: Kevin Arnold Renderos Morales Llamanto Jeruslen Castillo Cruz Cristian Adalberto Elías Ramos TO OBTAIN THE TITLE OF: LICENCIADO EN IDIOMA INGLÉS DATE AND PLACE OF PRESENTATION: SAN SALVADOR, JANUARY 31, 2019 University authorities Rector Ing. Mario Antonio Ruiz Ramírez, MAEd. Vice-Rector Dra. Leticia Andino de Rivera General Secretary MEd y Lcda. Teresa de Jesús González de Mendoza Dean of the faculty of Social Sciences Lcda. Zoila Luz Romero Callejas 2 3 Index ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 9 CHAPTER I: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................... 11 1.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION...................................................................................................................................... 11 1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT........................................................................................................................................ 14 1.3 JUSTIFICATION .................................................................................................................................................. 14 1.4 TEMPORAL-SPATIAL-SOCIAL DELIMITATION ............................................................................................................. 15 1.5 OBJECTIVES ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 1.5.1 General Objective ................................................................................................................................. 16 1.5.2 Specific Objectives ................................................................................................................................ 16 1.6 SCOPES AND LIMITATIONS ................................................................................................................................... 16 1.6.1 Scopes .................................................................................................................................................. 16 1.6.2 Limitations ........................................................................................................................................... 17 CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ........................................................................................................ 18 2.1 HISTORY OF ONLINE EDUCATION .......................................................................................................................... 18 2.1.1 The beginning of the virtual learning ................................................................................................... 18 2.1.2 The development of the E-learning in the 90s and 2000s. ................................................................... 19 2.1.3 The E-learning from 2010 to the current times .................................................................................... 21 2.1.4 The future of E-learning ....................................................................................................................... 24 2.2 HISTORY OF ESL EDUCATION. .............................................................................................................................. 27 2.2.1 Early days ............................................................................................................................................. 27 2.2.2 Bilingual education in the USA ............................................................................................................. 28 2.2.3 Precursors ............................................................................................................................................ 30 2.2.4 Methods ............................................................................................................................................... 31 2.2.4.1 The Direct Method ......................................................................................................................................... 31 2.2.4.2 The Audio-lingual Method .............................................................................................................................. 32 2.2.4.3 Cognitive Code Learning ................................................................................................................................. 32 2.2.4.4 Community Language Learning (CLT) ............................................................................................................. 33 2.2.4.5 Communicative Language Teaching ............................................................................................................... 33 2.2.4.6 Task- based language teaching ....................................................................................................................... 34 2.2.4.7 Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) ......................................................................................... 34 2.2.4.8 B-Learning Methodology ................................................................................................................................ 36 2.2.5 ESL Education In El Salvador ................................................................................................................ 38 2.3 THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE ........................................................................................... 43 2.4 VIRTUAL LEARNING ............................................................................................................................................ 46 2.4.1 Background .......................................................................................................................................... 46 2.4.2 History of Virtual education in the Universidad Francisco Gavidia ...................................................... 49 2.4.3 Environment ......................................................................................................................................... 50 2.4.4 Components ......................................................................................................................................... 50 2.4.5 Motivational Factor ............................................................................................................................. 51 2.4.6 Choosing the technology ...................................................................................................................... 53 4 2.5 SYLLABI COMPOSITION ....................................................................................................................................... 54 2.5.1 Background .......................................................................................................................................... 54 2.5.2 Current Syllabus of Intermediate English I ........................................................................................... 55 2.5.3 Current Syllabus of Intermediate English II .......................................................................................... 62 2.5.4 Current Syllabus of Advanced English .................................................................................................. 67 2.5.5 Comparison and Analysis ..................................................................................................................... 72 2.5.6 Syllabi adaptation to the online course ................................................................................................ 75 2.5.7 Functions and Competencies................................................................................................................ 76 2.6 MOODLE ......................................................................................................................................................... 80 2.6.1 Background .......................................................................................................................................... 80 2.6.2 A brief history of Moodle ..................................................................................................................... 82 2.6.3 Moodle Features .................................................................................................................................. 83 2.6.3.1 Moodle tools used on the project .................................................................................................................. 84 2.6.4 How to use Moodle .............................................................................................................................. 86 2.6.5 Moodle advantages ............................................................................................................................. 86 2.6.6 The future of Moodle 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