Visión del alumnado universitario sobre el fomento del inglés en la educación superior.

The phenomenon of internationalization in Higher Education has led to the adaptation of curricula to the Bologna Process in order to facilitate and promote students’ academic and labor mobility, and thus improve their language proficiency (Fernandez et al., 2009; Gallardo et al., 2010). Likewise, foreign language proficiency has become an essential tool in the current job market (Luna et al., 2011). That is why Spanish universities have been offering programs and grants for international mobility for years, and have even implemented some degrees in English (Sanjose et al., 2011). Students’ interest in participating in mobility programs increases annually, having reached a total of 42,002 participants during the 2017-18 academic year (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, 2019). In this line, this research aims to find out the opinion of university students about the promotion of English by the University; for this purpose, a total of 498 subjects who are studying Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Faculty of Education of Badajoz (University of Extremadura) participated in the study. A quantitative methodology was used, and a descriptive and inferential analysis of the data was performed. The data was collected using a questionnaire of our own elaboration. Among the results obtained it is worth noting that 82.9% of the subjects consider that the University does not promote language acquisition in the English language sufficiently and 72.9% believe that the University should intensify its studies of this language.