Technological mediation to develop the didactic competence in future English language teachers

This scientific and technological article sumrnarizes the third phase of the research Hacia un mejoramiento de mi quehacer como docente de ingles: El software educativo un medio para solucionar algunos problemas metodologicos de ingles en docentes en formacion. This phase was justified because of the previous ones, where some important aspects of the problem on exploration and description were raised; as well as the design and the architecture of the software, the navigation map and the design of some tasks. The piloting of the initial material gathered relevant information, which let the continuous process of the research go on. The main purpose of this third phase was to design educational software according to the students needs in relation to didactic competence of pre-service English language teachers from the Licenciatura en educacion bisica con enfasis en ingles (LEBEI) program at Distrital University. The third phase in its initial stage was conceived as a pre-experimental research (Larsen-Freeman, 1997). Later, it was stated that the intention was to propose a software application to be used as a means, not as an end, to develop the didactic competence of the pre-service English language teachers. That was how the research turned over from pre-experimental towards descriptive and interpretative research (Merriam, 1998) as the most appropriate research method. The results of the third phase were: The software ELT (English Language Teaching) the Dit on line platform and the application of tasks to develop the didactic competence.