The education is an important process for any country to transmit knowledge, values and skills from

one generation to another.

Nowadays, the educational area is suffering a lot of changes in our

country and the students’ attitude

towards the studies is getting worst and worst day by day.

Podcast

Podcast InterviewsStudent A

Hugo Yepes 1) What do you think of our standards

of Education?

2) Do you think our standards of Education could be improved? In

which aspects?

3) Do you think is important to have good self study habits?

Why?

4) What do you know about standards of education in

developed countries (such as Japan and USA)?

5) What aspects of those developed countries do you think would be positive to implement in our system?

Some authors assure that Venezuelans inner strength or motivation is power directed. For this reason, we wanted to find out the truth behind their theories, through interviews with

students from our major…

 JeanFrank Gutierrez

• Would you sacrifice your spare

time to reach out success?

• Being successful means…

• How many hours do you give to

independent study?

• Your dream job would be…

Student B

Keverly Mendez

• Do you have strong will to

be successful in the

career that you chose?

• Would you sacrifice not having a family for

being successful?• What would you prefer, being an

employee or a boss?

• If you could study another career, would you change the one that you’re doing?

Student C

Student DIn this part we had Jillian Lopez, who is the U.S.A

embassy’s designated teacher’s aid for the subject of: phonetics and phonology

at U.C, give her opinion about education in the U.S

and contrast certain aspects of the American culture with

the Venezuelan culture respectively.

What do you think of

the standards of

education in the U.S?

What do you think are

people’s attitudes

towards studying in the

U.S?

What do you think the

main difference is between

students in the U.S and in

Vnzla?

ProfessorWe also had an ESL expert,

prof. Evelin Ojeda from the department of foreign languages at U.C give her

opinion on potential solutions for the problem and add some interesting outlooks regarding

Venezuelan ESL students…

What do you

think could be

the best solution

for the problem

concerning us?

Do you think debates and

conversational clubs would be

effcient strategies to

contribute with the solution?