Innovation in Language Learning

The University of Veracruz has 6 Language Centers in different cities of the State of Veracruz in Mexico. Their main mission consists of promoting and fostering language learning acquisition through a wide variety on language courses aimed at university students as well as people from the community of each city. Through the years, these Centers have also committed to meet the different demands of society. Among them, we found the necessity to support English language teachers from upper secondary education or high schools to improve their language level and their teaching-learning strategies so that they can perform more effectively in their own institutions by making use of the new information and communication technologies.
For this reason, a group of teachers of the 6 Language centers carried out a very hard work in the creation and implementation of a teacher training certification course for English as a second language teachers.
This paper describes the implementation of this certification program in the city of Poza Rica, Mexico as well as the work and tasks done in the module “Fundamentals of Instructional design and assessment of English language in the classroom. It mainly aims at comparing the results obtained by two generations of students who work with different educative platforms. Findings suggest similar behaviors regarding knowledge acquisition.

Keywords: Teacher training, language teaching, ICT;