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    Designing strategies to address the needs of a heterogeneous group in pre-service teachers using the krashen's input hypothesis
    (2015-12) Gallardo Arreola, Analí; GALLARDO ARREOLA, ANALI; 843070; TAPIA CARLIN, REBECA ELENA; 251221
    “The professionalization of teaching English as a foreign or second language is becoming a reality in many universities, due to the global status that the English language has; nevertheless one of the main problems that EFL teachers and students face is the heterogeneity of English levels of proficiency that students hold when they enter university. Despite the fact that most university students taking the major in ELT at BUAP take a placement test, heterogeneity in ELT exists and mainly affects the ones who were placed at beginner level. This study aimed to identify the teaching strategies used to address the needs of two heterogeneous groups of beginner EFL learners in order to learn from these experienced teachers how to overcome the disadvantages that teaching these types of groups implies. Two groups of the subject “Target language I" from the School of Language at Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) were the participants of this ethnographic study. The information was collected through classroom observations, students’ questionnaire and a semi-structured interview done to teachers and students in order to analyze the natural context of the learning-teaching process. The findings show that students have positive attitude toward their classes and most of them agree that they are satisfied with the teaching strategies”.