Neutrosociology for the Analysis of the Pros and Cons of the LIFE Series in UNIANDES, Ecuador

Abstract

To teach English in Higher Education is of great importance to have professionals prepared for the challenges
imposed by the globalization. Ecuador is a Spanish-speaking country for which the teaching of English is part of the
programs of study of the courses taught in the Ecuadorian’s universities. This paper aims to carry out a statistical study
of the acceptance of the LIFE program in the teaching of English at the Regional Autonomous University of Los Andes
(UNIANDES in Spanish), its pros and cons. This is measured according to a Likert scale, with five options, two
positive, two negative and one neutral. We consider that none of these three levels should pass unnoticed, since each
of them shows a tendency to consider. This includes the aspect of indeterminacy, which indicates the existence of
contradictions, indifference, among other motivations of this type. Therefore, we perform a non-traditional processing
of the Likert scale, more in line with the principles of Neutrosociology and Neutrosophic Statistics, where the
indeterminate probability is taken into account for the social group which is student body.