Communication games as a means to develop students’ English speaking skills applied to tenth graders at Unidad Educativa Gral. Eloy Alfaro Delgado

Abstract

The current research project has as a main objective the use of Communication Games to enhance the English speaking skills development on tenth graders at Unidad Educativa Gral Eloy Alfaro Delgado. In addition, this research study tried to determine how the two variables (independent and dependent) are related, making use of books and academic papers. In this sense, this research ran a survey, in order to verify that exist a special interest on tenth graders and English teachers in implementing Communication Games and at the same time the need in applying them in the English language classroom. Next, a pre-test was applied to determine the English speaking level of tenth graders, and it was evidenced, due to the fact that the scores were relatively low. After that, five games were selected from the proposal (manual) to be implemented in the classroom, and then proved, through the application of a post-test, that Communication Games enhanced the oral expression on tenth graders. It is important to mention that the results obtained from the pre-test and the post-test were duly verified through the application of the T-Student test in the SPSS program. Finally, aa an extra xix resource, an exit survey was applied, in order to demonstrate the usefulness and the impact of Communication Games in the English teaching-learning process. In fact, the exit survey as well as the results of the entire research project, caused a great impression on students and teachers of the institution, due to the fact that all of these, corroborate that English speaking skills of tenth graders were optimized with the implementation of Communication Games.