The Use of Technologies in Second Language Learning: The Case of a Mexican University

Introduction: This research is about the use of technology in learning English as a Foreign Language at higher education in a public University in Mexico. This study is focused on how students use the technology for academic and non-academic issues to learn English. The object of the study a sample of twenty five percent of English language students (375 students) were considered. Students’ average age was 18-25. Methodology: For this research two instruments were used to gather data the first one a questionnaire designed for this purpose, the second one an interview to know what kind of gadgets students use to learn English in higher education and how this technology could be introduced in second language learning classrooms. The results: allowed concluding that most technological gadgets used by students were Cells and Laptops to surf the net and chat through social networks for non-academic issues and laptops and desktop computers to work on school duties with specific software

Process Of Reform. A View From The Teaching Personnel Of De University Of Nayarit.

The university, as an institution, takes a long time to change, since its change does not happen as it does with organisms that transform completely. Rather, what characterizes universities is their resistance to change, their adaptation, counterproposals and negotiations (Porter 2003, Ibarra 2005, 2006), which are expressed with unique characteristics in each particular case. The apparent contradictions, in a complex and hard to unravel context, are that motivate this study. We ask whether such changes will create a new university or will lead it into an undesirable road; whether the university is able to defend its original goals. Can it experience transformation with the same strength and creativity today as with that was found in the collective conscience forty years ago? Can it maintain its spirit of commitment with its social, cultural, and ecological environment? Can it conserve its “sense of self”? In order to understand how the essence of the university ethos is maintained or altered, “A university with sense of self” shows the ideas, attitudes, experiences and interpretations of the main actors at the Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, the professors how they face these changes, and the “institutional reform” being proposed. We seek to explain how anticipated and desired change by the broader community in Nayarit, is in fact understood, assumed, lived, and carried out

Las estrategias de aprendizaje de inglés y su uso en el aula

La presente investigación da cuenta de la frecuencia de uso de las estrategias de aprendizaje y el desarrollo de las habilidades del idioma inglés como lengua extranjera que utilizan los estudiantes del Área de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de  la Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit.Para determinar lo anterior, se utilizó cuestionario de frecuencia de uso de estrategias de aprendizaje de vocabulario y desarrollo de habilidades. Los resultados obtenidos evidencian la necesidad de potenciar más la frecuencia de uso de estrategias de aprendizaje. De la misma manera se determinó si los estudiantes del  Área de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades  tienen el nivel adecuado de acuerdo a los estándares establecidos por el examen institucional de inglés EXACRI y el examen institucional TOEFL.

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

El uso de Estrategias para el Aprendizaje de vocabulario Académico en el Idioma Inglés en el Nivel Superior

The usage of learning strategies allows students to get involved in their own learning process. In this case, the development of organization strategies, to foster English academic words learning at a higher education group of students, yielded data that shows a significant increase of learned words (from a 33 per cent up to a 100 per cent). Besides, qualitative data showed that the use of such strategies improved students´ learning process.La implementación de estrategias de aprendizaje impulsa a los estudiantes a ser partícipes de su propio proceso de aprendizaje. En este caso, el uso de estrategias de organización para el aprendizaje de vocabulario permite que los estudiantes del nivel superior amplíen su repertorio de técnicas de aprendizaje de palabras académicas en el idioma inglés. Mediante la implementación de un tratamiento de organización de dichas palabras, los resultados de la post-prueba demostraron que los participantes lograron incrementar el número de palabras aprendidas de manera significativa, desde un 33 hasta un 10º por ciento. Además, los datos cualitativos demostraron que el uso de dichas estrategias facilitó su proceso de aprendizaje de vocabulario

Study of the material of the ATLAS inner detector for Run 2 of the LHC

International audienceThe ATLAS inner detector comprises three different sub-detectors: the pixel detector, the silicon strip tracker, and the transition-radiation drift-tube tracker. The Insertable B-Layer, a new innermost pixel layer, was installed during the shutdown period in 2014, together with modifications to the layout of the cables and support structures of the existing pixel detector. The material in the inner detector is studied with several methods, using a low-luminosity √s=13 TeV pp collision sample corresponding to around 2.0 nb−1 collected in 2015 with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. In this paper, the material within the innermost barrel region is studied using reconstructed hadronic interaction and photon conversion vertices. For the forward rapidity region, the material is probed by a measurement of the efficiency with which single tracks reconstructed from pixel detector hits alone can be extended with hits on the track in the strip layers. The results of these studies have been taken into account in an improved description of the material in the ATLAS inner detector simulation, resulting in a reduction in the uncertainties associated with the charged-particle reconstruction efficiency determined from simulation