Examinando por Autor "Galván Garcés, Olga Lucia"

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    Addressing personal challenges faced by mentees in their academic journey through the mentoring program at Universidad de Córdoba
    (Universidad de Córdoba, 2024-07-09) Ruiz Polo, Yulia Zuria; Galván Garcés, Olga Lucia; Nieto Caballero, Jaime Arturo
    This report presents my internship experience in the Mentoring Program at the Universidad de Córdoba, designed to facilitate the academic and social integration of transitioning students. This program supports the entry and permanence of students from the first to fifth semester whose academic needs are identified in English grammar and communication skills. Thirteen first-semester learners showed a lack in the areas of grammar, conversation, and listening during their first semester. These gaps stifled their growth, inhibiting their active class participation coupled with the presence of competitiveness, avoidance of routine behaviors, and low-status comparison among the mentored students and their classmates, leading to negative feelings toward peers and themselves, affecting their academic process as well. This frustration manifested in some mentees by imposing self-expectations and academic overload to reach the same communicative level as their benchmarked classmates, exacerbating personal issues that further impeded their academic progress during mentoring sessions. To address these challenges, the methodologies and strategies implemented included Motivational Strategies, Consideration of Learning Styles, and an Effective Feedback Approach. The combination of these techniques created a collaborative and engaging environment, allowing mentees to effectively address learning barriers while working towards a common academic goal with their mentor, which granted largely positive outcomes during the process. This environment fostered open communication channels for constructive feedback, enhancing the overall effectiveness of the mentorship.
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    Using realia in real contexts to enrich vocabulary learning in upper intermediate students under the project “mentoring” in the foreign Language Teaching program at the University of Córdoba
    (2023-02-03) Padilla Carrascal, Santiago; Galván Garcés, Olga Lucia
    This report describes the internship carried out at the University of Cordoba in the Foreign Language Teaching Program under the mentoring program piloting stage. This program aims to preclude student dropout as well as to diminish the level of desertion to keep and arouse the permanence of the students in the program. A population of 15 participants from upper intermediate level in Communication 5 enrolled from first to fifth semester, were diagnosed and presented academic problems in terms of language acquisition which were mainly focused on mispronunciation and misspelling new words; they also had some difficulties memorizing the new vocabulary learned in class. Add to this, they did not have self-confidence when conveying their ideas because of the lack of vocabulary, and sometimes, were not able to understand what other people were saying, specifically when questions were asked, showing insecurity and hesitation when responding. The methodology applied in the mentoring sessions was founded on using realia in real contexts as main strategy to accomplish the expected objectives and learning communicative outcomes while implementing an eclectic approach which let the mentor teach English depending on the students’ skills and the purpose of the lesson. The results demonstrated that a good number of mentees enhanced their academic records and improved their English language performance, which gave the mentor great personal and professional satisfaction to make part of their peers' learning achievement.