Application of the Ideas Assessment Matrix Technique to Determine Strategies that Facilitate the Learning of the Spanish Language

Abstract

Language is a fundamental mean of communication, however, difficulties may come up when trying to transmit a message using another language than the mother one. An example of the above is the Spanish language, in which different difficulties appear when learning it, such as the pronunciation of new phonetic sounds for the learner. Therefore, the objective of this research was to determine strategies that facilitate the learning of the Spanish language. This research was mixed because the qualitative and quantitative approaches were taken into account when carrying it out. A sequential exploratory research design was applied because qualitative data are processed to obtain numerical results. Regarding the results, different strategies were obtained, such as “Learn Spanish in a Spanish-speaking country”, “Use of tongue twisters”, and “Interact with local people”. In this way it was determined that there are learning strategies that can be applied in a complementary way and not individually because they do not offer an effective solution to improve the learning of the Spanish language and only work in particular contexts.