Drama as a technique to develop communicative skills in the third year of basic general education students from “juan montalvo” school in esmeraldas 2017
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Date
2018
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PUCE - Esmeraldas
Abstract
A descriptive investigation was carried out to analyze the influence of the use of the drama technique to develop the communicative skills in thestudents fromthird year of basic general education at'Juan Montalvo' School in Esmeraldas,using the deductive and inductive methods, a bibliographical research about the drama technique in the English teaching-learning process was done. Some instruments were applied such as a survey and an observation. The population was formed by 42 students,2 teachers and, the samplewas composedby 42. The results showed that the students of the educational institution already mentioned, present difficulties in the communicative skills because of the lack of activities which allow them to improve the use of the communicative skills that are necessary for the students' linguistic development. The teachers would have consider that the communicative skills influence in a positive way in the students because they will help them to increase the motivation to work actively in classes, avoiding the boredom and the distraction. In conclusion, the general results of this investigation coincided with results of previous investigations related to the topic of the influence of the use of drama in the development of the communicative skills, both supported by the application and use of didactic materials for improving students' communicative skills and the English language knowledge. For instance, they had developed some strategies and methodologies, teachers can work with in their lessons. The author of this investigation had also designed a set of exercises, so that teachers can use them in their lessons for engaging students and making them to work actively with communicative tasks. Through these exercises learning turned to be very significant and motivation increased for developing of all the other skills.
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Tesis previa obtención del título de Licenciado/a en Lingüística Aplicada mención Inglés
Keywords
Habilidades comunicativas, Técnicas dramáticas, Instituciones educativas