Comprensión y producción oral en inglés a través del enfoque comunicativo en los estudiantes del grado sexto del colegio Jaime Garzón.

Abstract

Teaching English in our country, especially in the public sphere represents a huge challenge, according to a study carried out by the EPI English Proficiency Index in 2018 Colombia has one of the lowest levels of English in the continent, the above is proof that the traditional methods used in the teaching of the language in our country are not being effective. This project aims to analyze the incidence of the use of the communicative approach on the production and oral comprehension of English as a foreign language in sixth grade students of the Jaime Garzón school with the aim of improving pedagogical practices and the level of production and understanding of the students in English. The project has a qualitative approach due to the social nature of the proposal that will be applied with students from Jaime Garzón school, which is a stratum 2 public institution, located in Juan Atalaya sector of the department of Norte de Santander. The design is based on action research since the objective is to analyze the impact or incidence of a selected approach and its effectiveness in solving the problem previously posed. The collection of the information is carried out through the development of the field diary and the audiovisual record of the assigned activities, using the communicative approach as a proposal for teaching the language. The project will be applied in first instance with sixth grade students with the intention of, according to the results, extending it to the whole school to unify teaching criteria based on the communicative approach for the development of not only linguistic, but also communicative skills on students of all grades in the process of teaching English as a foreign language. Once the analysis of the information collected was done, it was found that face-to-face interaction (due to the alternation presented by the state of emergency as a result of COVID 19) in the classroom promotes and facilitates the use of English and development effective activities designed for the application of the approach, in addition to the development of oral production activities, which are the basis of the communicative approach, have a positive impact on the motivation of students and on the development of oral competence, in the levels of understanding and production.