Self-efficacy in students plays an essential role in their integral development, both in their training and in the academic field, particularly in relation to the confidence they have in their own abilities to communicate orally in different social contexts. The present research aims to demonstrate that the cooperative strategy called Structured Academic Controversy (CAE) favors the development of communicative self-efficacy in students of secondary level of Regular Basic Education in Peru. For this, a study was carried out with a quasi-experimental design, considering a specific sample of students (n=58), to whom a survey was applied to measure their level of oral communicative self-efficacy. Subsequently, the impact of the methodological strategy on the experimental group was analyzed in comparison with the control group. The findings showed a significant difference between both groups...

La autoeficacia en los estudiantes desempeña un papel esencial en su desarrollo integral, tanto en su formación como en el ámbito académico, particularmente en relación con la confianza que tienen en sus propias habilidades para comunicarse oralmente en distintos contextos sociales. La investigación siguiente asume como propósito demostrar que la estrategia cooperativa denominada Controversia Académica Estructurada (CAE) incrementa el nivel de autoeficacia comunicativa en discentes de nivel secundario de la Educación Básica Regular en el Perú. Para ello, se realizó un estudio con un diseño