Juan José Santillán

• Master of Arts
• University of Cuenca

Instability is inherent in global capitalism, impacting all countries, particularly those directly reliant on this economic framework. The USA shapes tourism metrics in dependent nations and influences inbound tourism spending. Using logarithmic models and power tests, the study delineated four dynamic fields (Cn) supporting the thesis of the fusio...

Instability is inherent in global capitalism, impacting all countries, particularly those directly reliant on this economic framework. The USA shapes tourism metrics in dependent nations and influences inbound tourism spending. Using logarithmic models and power tests, the study delineated four dynamic fields (Cn) supporting the thesis of the fusio...

The inclusion of literary texts, particularly poetry, is not a common practice in the language classroom. However, the available empirical evidence, albeit relatively scarce, does suggest that poetry, when correctly employed, is likely to be beneficial for second and foreign language learners. This teaching material has been used to teach and devel...

Background. Although there is empirical evidence to support the inclusion of poetry in the EFL classroom, the medium is rarely encountered in language learning environments. Aims. This study aimed to determine the influence of haiku composition tasks on developing academic writing skills of a group of TEFL majors at an Ecuadorian university. Meth...

Improvement of teacher-student class interaction has been obtaining greater progresses thanks to technological development with the addition of practical resources and modern facilities in educational institutions. The use of game-based response systems for enhancing language skills inside an EFL classroom has reported benefits mainly for certain p...

The use of poetry in the language classroom is, to say the least, a controversial issue. Themedium has been traditionally excluded from ESL/EFL contexts on the basis of generalizedbeliefs regarding its complexity and actual benefits. Nevertheless, this position disregardspotential advantages, which have been reported in the pertinent literature, th...

The inclusion of literary texts in the language classroom is a practice framed in controversy. Opponents of such tasks base their position in the inherent complexity of this type of texts. Conversely, advocates of the inclusion of literature maintain that, despite its characteristic intricacy, literary texts, when appropriately used, are likely to...

Despite the emphasis on change, both synchronic and diachronic, that Sociolinguistics has, language standardization is a process that starkly reveals the social and cultural dynamics and struggles of language use, such as nationalism, exclusion, political and cultural dominance, among others. Under this perspective, this paper explores the definiti...

Tradicionalmente, la investigación, como actividad científica, ha sido considerada como una tarea exclusiva de grupos académicos de élite; sin embargo, los requerimientos de la sociedad y la Academia actual han originado una mayor necesidad de llevar a cabo estudios científicos y reportarlos en publicaciones académicas. Ante esta realidad, estudian...

The phenomenon of globalization has brought the world closer and has changed the way we liveand communicate. Therefore, without the physical barriers that separate countries, people havefound new ways to be in touch with the different inhabitants of the world village. In thiscontext, people have seen the need to learn new languages, which takes one...

Dentro de las políticas de admisión a la educación superior vigentes en Ecuador a 2016, una cuestión considerada como problemática social constituye la aprobación del Examen Nacional de Educación Superior (ENES) como requisito de ingreso a la universidad pública. En este sentido, el objetivo de esta investigación fue conocer las percepciones de los...