Realia and the speaking skill

Abstract

Realia refers to the use of teaching aids related to real and authentic objects that anyone can find on the environment, and it could influence the development of speaking and writing skills in the learning process. The main aim of this investigative work was to analyze the tendence about the use of realia to develop the students’ speaking skills in EFL. The participants of the current study were 23 students from the level A1 beginners at Centro de Idiomas open program. In addition, this was a descriptive and qualitative research. Thus, all the compilated data was retrieved through a survey which allowed the appropriate analysis of the population. The survey contained at least ten questions based on the Likert’s scale where the main answers contained different types of scales such as: frequency, importance, agreement, and experience related with the use of realia in classroom and out of classroom. Finally, analyzing the last results, it was found that the most percentage of respondents feel that realia is a set of good teaching aids that helps with the development of speaking skill in EFL (English as Foreign Language).