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About Unilingua

The Foreign Language Services Unit – Unilingua is an academic-administrative project affiliated with the Department of Languages of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Cauca. It offers foreign language education services in the city of Popayán, seeking to contribute to the personal, professional, and cultural development of citizens interested in learning a foreign language in a world shaped by internationalization.

Mission

The Foreign Language Services Unit of the University of Cauca – UNILINGUA, through a qualified team committed to social engagement, teaching, and research, offers foreign language education services in the city of Popayán. It seeks to contribute to the personal, professional, and cultural development of citizens interested in learning a foreign language.

Vision

The Foreign Language Services Unit of the University of Cauca –
UNILINGUA, will consolidate its position as the leading organization in foreign language education at the regional level, characterized by excellence and quality in the service provided.

Our Objectives

Contribute to the personal and professional development of people interested in learning a foreign language.
Provide high-quality foreign language education services adapted to the needs of the university community and the regional environment.
Strengthen strategies for continuing education, ongoing assessment, and professional support, promoting a team committed to educational excellence.

Organizational Principles

Commitment

We are committed to educating the citizens of the future: the progress of the region lies in our hands, reflected in the education of children, young people, and adults who are building the country.

Effectiveness

We carry out each task efficiently, in the shortest possible time, optimizing resources to achieve the desired results.

Excellence

We not only teach foreign languages; we are academic professionals with teaching experience that attests to our performance.

Social awareness

Users are not just clients; they are people in training who are building a life project; therefore, more than an organization, we are their companions and guides throughout the growth process.

Responsibility

Users are not just clients; they are people in training who are building a life project; we are their guides throughout the growth process.

Total quality

The user is our reason for being. Serving them in the best possible way and striving for their satisfaction is the cornerstone of the organization’s operations.

Teamwork

Shared effort produces better results and creates an atmosphere of cordiality and respect.

Commitment

We value personal development and encourage our team to grow intellectually, making their contributions an important asset to the organization.

Methodological Strategy

In the different fields of knowledge, many aspects have changed and evolved as different historical periods have determined and required. In the field of Foreign Languages, countless studies have been conducted to date in an attempt to find an answer to how to ensure that the Language Teaching and Learning process fulfills its objective. Thus, many possibilities have emerged in this field and have contributed different ways of guiding this process according to the specific purpose that motivates it.

Our program, at its different levels, uses a “guide” text (student’s book, Activity book, videos and audios, online platform) that works on the four language skills through knowledge of the language itself (Linguistic Code) and its social functions; thus, the content is contextualized so that, based on the student’s own reality, it can be understood, compared, and valued; this analysis therefore opens up space for other thematic and discussion proposals by the teacher or the student. In this way, the following competencies are developed: Linguistic, Interpretive, Communicative (Argumentative and Propositional), as the course objectives are developed.

We focus on personalized processes to help students discover their abilities and develop them.

We implement appropriate strategies and activities to develop each individual's potential.

This work is, of course, accompanied by a continuous and flexible process of “assessment (Assessment) and evaluation (Evaluation)” under the same parameters of the communicative methodology. In this regard, and in accordance with the policies of the Government and the Ministry of National Education, through the National Bilingualism Program – PNB, we have adopted the parameters of the Common European Framework for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Thus, these parameters allow us to have a clear understanding of our objectives and purposes both in the teaching and learning process and in the assessment and evaluation process.

This approach allows us to involve work both inside and outside the classroom, so that we can guide students toward the individual responsibility they have, with the aim of fostering in them a sense of autonomy and independence in learning, that is, guiding them toward “learning to learn” and, in this way, contributing to the development of the individual through the tools offered not only by this approach but also by being independent, autonomous, and inquisitive in and for this historical moment of globalization and internationalization.