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    Communicative language teaching techniques for enriching the speaking skill in high school students
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato. Dirección de Posgrado. Maestría en Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés como Lengua Extranjera, 2018-01) Silva Valencia, Juan Carlos; Iza Pazmiño, Sarah Jacqueline
    This research project is intended to analyze how communicative language teaching techniques influence the enrichment of the speaking skill in high school students. In order to determine how these two variables are interrelated, extensive research was done by reading several books, articles and journals in relation to each variable. Special attention was given to the book “Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching” written by Larsen (2000), for gathering information about the independent variable (Communicative Language Teaching Techniques) and “How To Teach Speaking” by Thornbury (2005) to get information about the dependent variable (The Speaking Skill). Furthermore, a survey entailing 10 questions was applied to 12 English teachers and 234 second year baccalaureate students after it was validated by three experts. This survey permitted to get a more approached panorama of how these two variables are taken into consideration and applied in the English classrooms of the Ambato High School. Once the results were cautiously analyzed and systematically tabulated, the established hypothesis was verified through using the Student’s T-test. These results stated that indeed, communicative language teaching techniques do influence the enrichment of the speaking skill in high school students. The results obtained also led to draw several conclusions and recommendations. One of the most important conclusions pointed out that the majority of students believe that they learn English best through interactive tasks, but unfortunately teachers do not seem to frequently apply a variety of techniques that foster communication in the classroom. Hence, it was seen that students do not get enough opportunities to interact among themselves to practice using the language in such an authentic, enjoyable and meaningful manner. The recommendation for this conclusion was to devise a handbook, which entails 20 communicative language teaching techniques (some adapted, and others created) that teachers can use in their classes so that their students are encouraged to practice their speaking skill more often. Therefore, the proposal to address the research problem identified in this investigative project is the presentation of the handbook with 20 CLT techniques, which are distributed to address and enhance several speaking subskills such as fluency, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and functions.
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    La metodología de enseñanza del idioma inglés y su influencia en el aprendizaje de la gramática inglesa en los estudiantes de Octavo año del Colegio C.E.B.I
    (2013-07-18) Silva Valencia, Juan Carlos
    El presente trabajo investigativo tuvo como problema central el bajo dominio de la Gramática Inglesa de los alumnosde Octavo Año del Colegio “CEBI”. En este proyecto se planteó la siguiente hipótesis: Las metodologías inapropiadas de enseñanza del Idioma Inglés afectan en el aprendizaje de la Gramática Inglesa de los estudiantes de Octavo Año del Colegio “CEBI” misma que fue comprobada después de haber hecho el monitoreo correspondiente siguiendo sistemáticamente los pasos que la metodología de la investigación requiere y aplicado la técnica de la encuesta tanto a profesores como estudiantes se llegaron a varias conclusiones entre las cuales se menciona que los estudiantes ciertamente tienen un bajo nivel de conocimiento en lo que es la Gramática Inglesa y que los docentes tienen mucho que ver con esta situación desfavorable ya que no motivan a sus alumnos a aprender dicha asignatura por utilizar una metodología no activa e inapropiada.