Open AccessThe Organizational Pattern of Theses for Graduates in B.A. in English Language Teaching
Author(s) -
Elsa Yolanda Cruz Maldonado,
Karime Cárdenas Escobar,
Monserrat Asís Hernández Sarmiento,
María Magdalena Bermejo del Villar,
Rocio Cancino Zamarrón
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista lengua y cultura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2683-2321
DOI - 10.29057/lc.v2i4.6951
Subject(s) - reading (process) , descriptive research , english language , pedagogy , sociology , mathematics education , psychology , library science , political science , computer science , social science , law
Research is a fundamental factor for the development and improvement of any area of study, however, the English Language Teaching (ELT) undergraduate programs in Mexico usually fail to promote research in their schools. This is the case of the ELT the undergraduate program of the Escuela de Lenguas, Campus Tapachula in the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH as for its initials in Spanish), where little is known by the school about the organizational pattern of the submitted theses by trainees. This is a descriptive study that seeks out to reveal how these are structured in the Escuela de Lenguas, Campus Tapachula. This research is going to be carried out by applying questionnaires to trainees, graduates, thesis-supervisors, and members of the reading committee and conducting a documentary analysis of the theses submitted from 2012 to 2019 to detail how they are structured. It was discovered that most of the theses are composed of four chapters, yet most of the participants agree on the theses of five chapters. According to the results obtained, two different outlines were designed varying in the number of chapters and the elements included in each one.