ENGLISH DEGREE
Lack of methodologies and materials implementation for learning and communicating in English class
34 teenage learners Elementary-early English competence 14-16 years old From Institucion Educativa San Francisco de Asis, Florencia
What would be the most appropriate project to engage 9th C students during the English language learning at Institucin Educativa San Francisco de Asis?
To engage students in learning process through task and project work, in order to improve their attitude for learning and communicating during English class.
Ss work cooperatively, expressing their ideas or special doubts school and community.
students have a center-role and the teacher is a facilitator who supports them in the different tasks
AMAZONIA UNIVERSITY IX SEM. ENGLISH DEGREE
Willis (1996) presented Task Based Language Teaching TBLT as a development of Communicative Language Teaching, drawing on many principles: - Activities which involve real communication are important for language learning - Meaningful tasks provide and promote learning when they are applied on language activities - Meaningful language supports the learning process.
Engaging learners in task work provides a better context for the activation of learning processes than form-focused activities, and hence ultimately provides better opportunities for language learning to take place. (J. Richards & T. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, 2001: 223-224).
The process of accomplishing the project needs to be taken into consideration, e.g. multiple drafts, training and continuous feedback in order to design and accomplish the project, division of labor in collaborative projects and keeping track of individual contribution. Pia Arboleda (Pedagogy Workshop
Summary. 2010: 2)
It was focused on the process, learning and improvement that students were showing through the development of the project
There were some limitations in this study, which should be mentioned as so avoid any overgeneralizations and misinterpretations of the results:
Time
Money
Introduction
Writing Process
Oral Presentation
Number of students
4.1 % of them obtained an excellent grade 66.6 % of the students obtained a good grade. 16.6 % obtained a low grade 12.5 % obtained a lower grade
THEMES
CODES Class objectives Resources Teachers strategies Teachers active part Students interest Students likes Students developing skills Teacher-students interaction, Students organization.
For students attitude and performance in learning a Foreign Language it can be said they showed good disposition to work while they are doing something and working cooperatively with all of their classmates and the support of their teacher
Continue feedback leads to improve students results at the end of the process.
The findings indicate that students from 9th grade in the Institucin Educativa San Francisco de Asis present positive responses to the methodology applied, whereas, it is very important to combine the activities and connect the resources with them in order to obtain good results.
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