Identification of linguistic barriers/competences in scientific communication of university researchers
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https://doi.org/10.54167/rei.v1i1.1183Keywords:
linguistic barriers, linguistic competence, scientific production, scientific communication, university professors, university researchersAbstract
This article proposes the generation of a model to identify linguistic barriers / competences (BL/CL) in scientific communication in university researchers, creating through the review of the scientific literature a four-dimensional taxonomy: (1) conditions of the context; (2) expression and interpretation of concepts; (3) writing and structuring of scientific documents; and (4) psychological, personality and cultural aspects. For data collection, a survey was used where an instrument designed according to the taxonomy described above was applied to a random and stratified sample, calculated with 95% confidence and a margin of error of 8%, of 70 researchers belonging both to the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH) and the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico, distributed in seven scientific disciplines. The study allowed to analyze the conditions of the participants comparing their BL/CL and to conclude mainly that the linguistic competence (CL) of the researchers significantly facilitates the production of scientific texts in the realization of science communication activities, also finding significant differences in CL according to the disciplinary area and the level of mastery of a second language, but evidencing that the gender, age or level in the SNI do not point to significant differences in the CL of the researchers.
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