Exploration of the use of total physical response for developing listening skills in students of tercer año de educación general básica class “a” at unidad educativa “Nuestro Mundo eco-río" of Riobamba city, Chimborazo province, during the academic year 2016-2017

There are new methods for teaching English and teachers use them in class for developing skills, but there are still teachers that continue using the traditional methods in class. For this reason, the present research aims to explore how the Total Physical Response method helps to develop the listening skills in students of Third Year of Basic General Education at “Nuestro Mundo Eco-Río” Educational Unit, in Riobamba city, Chimborazo Province; these students show a low level of English and they have not developed listening skills. For this study the researcher proposes the following objectives: To observe how the teacher uses oral activities for listening practices. To analyze how the TPR method influences in the learning process of the second Language in these students. To explain the behavior of students when practicing TPR method. The research was developed at the Nuestro Mundo Educational Unit. The population was constituted by 25 students and 1 teacher of Third Year. The approach is qualitative with the characteristics of exploratory and descriptive in which it was used the Ethnographic method to describe the things that were happening in this environment. In addition, the technique and instrument used for gathering the data was an observation guide. The principal results showed that the lack of development listening skills is that the teacher did not have a clear knowledge about the use of TPR method. The main established conclusion is that activities like role plays and listening comprehension are good for developing listening skills, but the process how they are applied is not the correct one, so the learning goals are not achieved.

• Autore principale: Castillo Mazón, Holger Patricio (author)
• Natura: bachelorThesis
• Pubblicazione: 2018
• Soggetti: Análisis de métodos; proceso de aprendizaje
• Accesso online: http://dspace.unach.edu.ec/handle/51000/4980