TY - UNPB ID - uninipr822 UR - http://repositorio.unib.org/id/eprint/822/ A1 - Núñez Pesantez, Milton Armando TI - A research on the overuse of Spanish in the EFL classroom focused on EFL students at superior sublevel From Humberto Vacas Gómez school in Ecuador Y1 - 2022/02/17/ N2 - The problematic generated by the overuse of Spanish in the English as a Foreign Language classroom focused on English as a Foreign Language students at superior sublevel from public schools in Ecuador is reviewed in this research. This work was developed by providing writing and speaking assignments to selected participants as well as by conducting surveys to students and to all English teachers from this sublevel. The present investigation process was done in order to find the causes of the overuse of Spanish by means of a correlation between a bibliographic and camp work. Thus, a better English fluency is intended to be reached by avoiding practices such as using Spanish or thinking in Spanish first instead of using English within the learning context. KW - Overuse KW - Foreign language KW - Superior sublevel KW - Writing KW - Speaking AV - none M1 - masters ER -