Innovación metodológica y tecnológica en la enseñanza del inglés para turismo a distancia

Abstract

This article presents the curricular design of a subject on English for Specific Purposes from the Degree in Tourism at a distance learning tertiary institution such as the Spanish national distance learning university, UNED. In addition to the challenges present in such a teaching modality, the didactic scenario is also complex due to the great heterogeneity of the student groups, since it is a first year subject in a non-language degree, and also due to the high student numbers and unbalanced ratio between students and teachers. This article describes the main methodological and technological aspects of the innovative design of this online subject, which has enabled the teaching team, members of the ATLAS (Applying Technology to LAnguageS) research group, to win the UNED Award for Best Teaching Practices