Guía digital de inglés aplicada a la destreza de lectura para docentes que están cursando un programa doctoral de ciencias jurídicas en la Universidad de la Habana Cuba.

Abstract

Professionals who are studying the Legal Sciences’ doctoral programme at the University of Habana seek to maximize the time to meet the personal, familial and professional obligations. The latter is immersed in the study of a foreign language (English) for the approval of an exam, being a requirement when finishing the doctoral programme. The lack of knowledge about the importance of learning a foreign language, the lack of interest in learning process of a foreign language and the scarce reading habit are the reasons for the students to miss the right English level to pass the doctoral programme. Unfortunately, most of the professionals are aware of the importance of learning English when they have lost a great job opportunity or investment. This paper is based on a deductive, correlational and mixed research because it is involved the qualitative and quantitative aspects. In the most of questions, survey using rating scale Likert method and interviews were carried out to the authorities, tutors and students who are part of this Legal Sciences’ doctoral programme and are studying at the University of Habana in Cuba and the Catholic University Santiago of Guayaquil in Ecuador. The sample size was 133 students who were studying a doctoral programme between 2014 and 2016 from a population of 3,181 doctoral students according to SENESCYT. In accordance with the survey’s results, most of the respondents have a good knowledge about the educational platform, the use of ICT and its importance. However, they have a lack of knowledge about the website repository term. Besides, the survey helped prove the difficulties that the students have when they are studying English through websites. The proposal is about a digital guide based on the use of ICT focused on reinforcement of English language learning through Reading Comprehension skill which has a website repository about general topics and legal specific (purpose) readings, as well as, links about dictionaries with different specific functions, being a help for the student who needs to optimise the quality of time of study, because it is flexible and autonomous, without the obligation of studying under a determined schedule.