Quality factors of an English as a Medium of Instruction program associated with students’ satisfaction

José L. Arco-Tirado; Francisco D. Fernández-Martín; Manuel A. Berrio-Gutiérrez

doi:10.30827/portalin.vi42.28186

Autores/as

José L. Arco-Tirado Universidad de Granada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8390-9724
Francisco D. Fernández-Martín Universidad de Granada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1272-1131
Manuel A. Berrio-Gutiérrez Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/portalin.vi42.28186

Palabras clave:

Inglés como Medio de Instrucción, Grados impartidos en lengua inglesa, Satisfacción de los estudiantes, Programas universitarios de calidad, Bilingüismo

Resumen

Este estudio examina la asociación entre factores clave de la modalidad de enseñanza denominada inglés como medio de instrucción (EMI por sus siglas en inglés) en un Grado de Educación Primaria de una universidad española y la satisfacción de los estudiantes. El crecimiento importante de la demanda y oferta de programas plurilingües en la Educación Superior en la última década en muchos países no anglosajones recomienda realizar más estudios de evaluación de la calidad y el impacto de los programas EMI en el rendimiento y satisfacción de los estudiantes. Este estudio adopta un diseño ex-post facto en una muestra de 131 estudiantes auto seleccionados. La variable dependiente satisfacción de los estudiantes se midió mediante un cuestionario (α=0.82 and a ω= 0.85) administrado online. La regresión no paramétrica confirma parcialmente dos de las hipótesis planteadas con un valor medio de 3.72 puntos (en una escala de 5 puntos) y un efecto marginal significativo en la variable enseñanza de los profesores en el aula de 0.7, p < 0.01. El modelo (M6) con todos los predictores y controles explica el 40.69% de la variabilidad de la variable dependiente. Finalmente, se proponen algunas recomendaciones dirigidas a mejorar los niveles de satisfacción del estudiantado.

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Biografía del autor/a

José L. Arco-Tirado, Universidad de Granada

José L. Arco-Tirado (ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8390-9724), Ph.D., is Professor at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Granada (Spain). He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience on national and international research institutions and projects. Professor Arco focuses his research interests on different topics like EMI, service-learning, and public program evaluation. He has published several books and articles in national and internationally recognized journals.

Francisco D. Fernández-Martín, Universidad de Granada

Francisco D. Fernández-Martín (ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1272-1131), Ph.D., is Professor at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Granada (Spain). For almost 18 years he has been teaching in Higher Education. As a result of this experience, he has published several articles in nationally and internationally recognized journals and publishers, and several books, book chapters and papers on international and national congress and conferences.

Manuel A. Berrio-Gutiérrez, Universidad de Granada

Manuel A. Berrio-Gutiérrez (ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1900-9537) is an English Primary Teacher graduated from the bilingual program at the Faculty of Education at the University of Granada (Spain) in 2020. He has also taken the master’s degree of English Linguistics at the same institution. He has developed his final degree project about the implementation and evolution of CLIL in the Spanish and Andalusian education system.

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