This is an experimental study in the area of Didactics applied to the learning of English
as a foreign language and complemented by CALL. The main objective of this work is to know the degree of incidence existing
between two groups of students: one, based on conference-style classes where students, guided by the teacher, have to search for
information about a topic in the computer lab and present it in front of the class and, in the other, where students are taught
by the teacher according to a printed text. The experimental design consisted of a pre-test/post-test plus the application of
different techniques to develop the different linguistic and cognitive strategies, between these tests. The methodology used by
the Experimental Group forced learners to generate their own knowledge, so they had to apply the information and work by
themselves in Workshops; and the Control Group participated in the classroom according to the communicative approach, guided
by the teacher in the traditional class. Statistics were applied to the scores obtained between both tests, and the scores
obtained weekly in the different competences contributed to knowing whether there were significant differences between
both groups.