This research aims to identify and evaluate the different methodologies for teaching English in private institutions in the Cucuta city, and this, it will focus on gathering information that can be applied to see if in Cucuta, a city whose academic training in private institutions take every day more important, are being properly applied the tools for teaching English as a second language. It is important to investigate whether private institutions in the city are achieving graduate students with a second language like English in an appropriate manner or if it could find a more appropriate tool for an improvement in the methodologies used in institutions.