inglés: College students´ attitudes toward tutoring. Designing a measurement scale.

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Social networks, specifically Facebook and Twitter, are currently one of the mainstream media in the world, yet its educational use for the dissemination of knowledge is not significantly evident, under this premise this report is presented, considering an experience in which teachers and university-level students used these networks as mediators of educational practices; such mediation was implemented in order to promote mobile learning as an option to facilitate the process of construction and socialization of knowledge; In this sense, the research presented aimed to identify the experience and opinion of students regarding the influence of this strategy in achieving their learning. The quantitative methodology was applied through the application type of a survey of students who participated and realized the importance of socialization of knowledge. The results showed favorable opinions regarding the use of these networks, highlighting the benefits of mobile learning as a way to streamline the training process. The proposal is to continue this type of strategies to promote flexible teaching-learning options.

Nowadays we face a totally globalized world, the system of teaching and learning of the English language still important faces challenges that require be attendant for the actors involved in this educational process; to strengthen this activity, the Technologies of the Information and Communication and the social networks have had a significate influence to motive the learning of a second language, because allow a better critical handling of the information that has available. In such a way that from the previous thing it was proposed to realize a study to know the problematic that the students of the race of International Business have when learning and to use technological tools adapted for the learning of the English language. This research was carried out under a quantitative methodology, descriptive, not experimental and transversal character; it designs an instrument ad hoc that was applied to the 74% of the students of the career of International Business of a Mexican university, who were studying third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth semester. For the interpretation of the results were realized correlations of data and was utilized the T of Student with the crossed boards to find differences between the opinion of the respondents. The results show that, the students with higher age consider that use the ICT and study out of the classroom help and motive the learning of the English language; for its part the 53% opine the they would like to practice the learned in class through electronic games; the 96% prefer watch movies, to the 87% like utilize audios and the 69% prefer utilize social networks and platforms. The above shows a tendency on the part of the students in the use of the technologies, it points out that receive classes in a physical classroom it doesn't always motivate them to learn English, nevertheless, they insure.

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