Effect of a programme to enhance proficiency in linguistic competence in Secondary Education // Efecto de un programa para la mejora en competencia en comunicación lingüística de alumnado de Educación Secundaria

Abstract

The present article aims to evaluate the effects of a program to enhance proficiency in linguistic competence in verbal aptitude, inductive reasoning, academic performance, self-efficiency in linguistic intelligence and linguistic competence.  For this aim, a quasi-experimental study of repeated measures with control group was designed. 204 participants were taken from second year students of secondary education (51.47% are women) with a mean age of 12.48 years (SD = 1.48). Results confirm that the program stimulated a significant improvement in language skills, academic performance, linguistic intelligence self-efficacy, as well as linguistic competence, among the experimental groups.