Bridging the gap between Bachelor's degree final projects and the professional world: an application of augmented reality for the teaching of metaphors in English

Resumen

Bachelor's Final Projects (Trabajos de Fin de Grado-TFGs) in the field of humanities in Spanishuniversities mostly fall into two categories: (1) those which involve a comparative study of previousresearch on a particular topic (state of the art final projects), or (2) those that apply the postulates andanalytic tools of a school of thought to the theoretical study of a specific subject matter. Bachelor's FinalProjects are, therefore, of a marked theoretical and academic nature and largely overlook potentialconnections with the professional world that awaits students after their graduation. The teachinginnovation project here described leads students into the realization of final projects that aim at applyingthe knowledge acquired in their graduate studies to professional areas linked to their English Studiesdegree. Thus, it seeks to broaden the nature of Bachelor's Final Projects by assessing the strengthsand weaknesses of those final projects that have a product as their target. More specifically, theBachelor's Final Project carried out under the auspices of this innovation project attempts to createeducational materials for the teaching of conceptual metaphors of COVID-19 to Spanish students ofEnglish by means of an Augmented Reality App (AugmentedClass@).