UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER

MEMORIA DE SEMINARIO DE GRADUACIÓN PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL

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A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN ENGHISH LANGUAGE OF ADULT

STUDENTS AT CINDEA OF 4P3N OF THE RITA YEAR 2015-2016

YESENIA MUÑOZ SALINAS FABIOLA AZOFEIFASAN JOSÉ, MAYO 2016

INTRODUCTION

Adult students professors has been seen difficult in their students to learning English. The more difficult for them is listening comprehension and speaking skills. The main problem is that the curriculum for CINDEA students of fourth period third level (4P3N) is more focused in reading and writing comprehension by the teachers.

Most of Costa Rican CINDEA teachers do not have the time to introduce oral communication in their classes.

The curricular programs of MEP are based on the four skills.

JUSTIFICATION 

This Memoir is based on the a descriptive study on the communicative competence in English language adult students at CINDEA of 4P3N of the Rita, most of the students that are actually in the public High School are not prepare to interact with others.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To study the communicative competence in English language of adult students at CINDEA of 4P3N of the Rita in order to improve the oral communication skills.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

To mention some characteristics about communicative competence.

To describe the influence of teachers in the characteristics of the adult students when they have oral communication with others.

To identify the importance of talk with native people, teachers and partners in the English class.

To propose a method to teach students oral communication.

VARIABLES

Communicative competence

Interactive techniques

Adult students characteristics

Oral communication

INSTITUTION FRAMEWORK

This High School is an official public institution which belongs to the Ministry of Education in which is taught the common academic lessons. The institution requires its students to take 5 years of study (3 years in third cycle and 2 years in diversified education).

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

ORAL COMMUNICATION DEVELOP

Oral communication is the process of expressing information or ideas by word of mouth.

INFORMAL: Face-to-face conversations Telephone conversations

FORMAL : Presentations at business meetings

TYPICAL TECHNIQUES

Translation Reading Comprehension Questions Antonyms/Synonyms Spelling Fill-in-the-blanks: Filling in gaps in sentences with new words

or items of a particular grammar type. Memorization: Memorizing vocabulary lists, grammatical rules

and grammatical paradigms.

DISADVANTAGES OF TYPICAL TECHNIQUES

Language learning experience is uninspired and boring Left the students with a sense of frustration when they travel

to countries were English is spoken. Neither approaches nor encourages the students´

communicative competence. There is no opportunities to communicate Repetition can turn the lesson boring

INFORMAL TECHNIQUES

TYPE OF RESEARCH

Descriptive and Exploratory

Descriptive Research is one in which information is gather evidence without

changing the external conditions.

Exploratory Research is described as the initial research into a hypothetical or

theoretical idea.

ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS DIFFICULT TO LEARN

Yes No Sometimes

66.67%

19.05%

14.29%

SKILLS USED IN THE ENGLISH CLASS

Listening and Speaking Reading and writing writing

38.10%

57.14%

4.76%

OPINIONS ABOUT THE ENGLISH CLASS

Comfortable Good Need to impove

4.76%

23.81%

71.43%

THE USE OF NEW ACTIVITIES TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS 

Yes, I agree Sometimes

61.90%

38.10%

CONCLUSIONS

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Based on the research teachers implement proper interactive

techniques for the development of adult students communicative competence, all of these strategies and techniques are closely related to the Competence Method.

ADULT STUDENTS CHARACTERISTICS

Adult students characteristics refer to physical, mental, emotional, and social descriptions of an individual. The majority of the adults students are working in different fields they have little time to study, lack communication with the teacher; fear to pronounce in the oral form, Indifference toward the language and lack interest to improve the oral communication this affect considerably the teaching process.

ORAL COMMUNICATION

The oral communication is important and should be incorporate into adults students Cindeas curriculums.

Conversation is a good way to communicate. An hour of conversation is better than five hours in a classroom because is more interesting communicate with a person in front of them than a book or a recorder.

RECOMENDATIONS

Oral communication provides more opportunity for getting and keeping interest and attention.

It is important to get feedback. 

Oral communication provides more opportunity for both the sender and the receiver .

Oral communication provides more opportunity to get attention.

Proposal

GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSAL

To implement proper interactive techniques for the development of adult student communicative competence at A4P3N Cindea La Rita high School in Guápiles to develop the oral communication with the English language.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

  To analyze practical ideas of teaching by including more

communicative activities in the lesson. To propose communicate competence method by interacting

with other native speakers, professor and partners in the oral form.

To mention the importance of talk with native people, teachers

and partners in the English class.

GUEST A PROFESSOR OR NATIVE SPEAKER

Interacting with native speakers helps to students use vocabulary include fixed word collocations, phrasal verbs, idioms, proverbs and regional differences in vocabulary usage for the needs of the learner in real life.

For instance; memorizing a word in a book it does not stick the same way that being forced to use a word in conversation.

CONVERSATIONS

Teacher will give a previous question to the students and the professor going to invite an English native speaker to answers the question in the class in the oral form.

GUIDE FOR STUDENTS CONVERSATION

Objectives: To analyze the results of this investigation in order to interacting in the oral form in the class.

NAMES WORK AND OCCUPPATIONS MARITAL STATUS FAMILY AGE CONTACT INFORMATION OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION

ROLE PLAY SITUATION  

OBJECTIVETo present situation lived by the students in order to find a solution for them.

Conclusion

Oral communication is important and should be incorporate into adults students Cindeas curriculums.

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