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2019 | 1 | 47-65

Article title

Visible Learning to Enhance Learner’s Participation: an intervention for undergraduate students

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Abstracts

The objective of this action research focuses on exploring the experience of 22 students from the Universidad del Valle de México Campus Guadalajara Sur, in the State of Jalisco, Mexico who experienced three specific Visible Learning (VL) strategies as a learning intervention to promote participation in class using English as a foreign language (L2). Throughout the action research based on this intervention and the VL strategies used and by using different instruments within the methodological framework to collect data, the experience of the participants was proven to be mostly positive. The level of participation in class increased and the three strategies selected and used for this specific context were acknowledged as an aid for a paradigm shift from previous learning experiences at lower educational levels. During the early days of the implementation, difficulties arose due to preconceived ideas, therefore, represented an initial resistance. The results reveal that the adaptation process requires effort, perseverance, and discipline in order to decrease anxiety levels when performance and intervention in class take place. However, once participants develop the required competencies and confidence when experiencing the strategies; motivation increases. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the role that VL might represent in the improvement process of learning English as a foreign language. Additionally, certain conditions and areas of opportunity present during its utilization are described. According to the above-mentioned data, the present research contributes considerably as an aid for an effective implementation of VL in the teaching learning process of a foreign language.

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  • Universidad del Valle de México Campus Guadalajara Sur

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