BENEMRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTNOMA DE PUEBLA

SECRETARA DE INVESTIGACIN Y ESTUDIOS DE POSGRADO

FACULTAD DE LENGUAS

BLENDING LEARNING AND COACHING/MENTORING SESSIONS TO

PROMOTE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
WITH FRESHMAN STUDENTS IN A PUBLIC BILINGUAL MEXICAN
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

A thesis submitted to the faculty of languages for the degree of

Licenciatura en la Enseanza del Ingls

by
Jos Luis Carrillo Valds

Thesis director:

Norma Flores Gonzlez

Spring 2017
 BLENDING LEARNING AND COACHING/MENTORING SESSIONS TO PROMOTE
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT WITH FRESHMAN
STUDENTS IN A PUBLIC BILINGUAL MEXICAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

This investigation has been read by the members of the Committee of

Carrillo Valds, Jos Luis

And is considered worthy of approval in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of

LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEANZA DEL INGLES

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Dra. Norma Flores Gonzlez, Thesis Director

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Dr. Michael Witten, Dr. Teresa Aurora Castineira Bentez,
Committee member Committee member

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Dr. Celso Prez Carranza,
Committee member

Benemrita Universidad Autnoma de Puebla

Puebla, Pue.

Spring 2017
 BLENDING LEARNING AND COACHING/MENTORING SESSIONS TO PROMOTE
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT WITH FRESHMAN
STUDENTS IN A PUBLIC BILINGUAL MEXICAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Abstract
In this project, a five-stage program is proposed to promote good practices in learners
personal and professional competence development in a public bilingual university in Mexico.
The main objective is to support learners in the development of good and trusting relationships
in the school and the classroom which foster a better cognitive development by the
implementation of a collaborative work plan between students and mentor teachers.
This research includes reflection-in-action, reflection-on- action and reflection-for-action
stages (Schn, 1983) which some problems are tackled in the students performance such as
self-esteem, professional competence and emotional intelligence. In addition to guarantee the
implementation of good practices, both teachers and learners are involved in students
competence development. This research was developed with 130 freshman students who
were taking the second quarter in mechatronics and industrial processes engineering in a not-
private University in Puebla, Mexico.
The results showed a better improvement of 41 of 52 students performance in a physics
course, and 57 of 78 students performance in a computer tools course by project-oriented
learning, case-based learning and problem-oriented-learning approach, including some
coaching-mentoring sessions which contributed to foster a critical thinking development,
suggesting that mentoring and coaching are the most effective means of supporting the
professional development as Hobson et al stated in 2015.

Key words: Mentoring, couching, blending learning, cognitive development, project-oriented learning,
case-based learning and problem-oriented-learning approach.