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2. • Bachillerato.
• Students issues.
• Institution issues

3. • Purpose of this investigation.
• To improve Reading skills.
• To help teachers to improve
the quality of teaching

4. How a Knowledge Community methodology can
improve English Reading Skills in tenth grade
Students in the Colegio Nocturno de Cartago?

5. To describe the implications of enacting the
Knowledge Community for the improvement of
English Reading Skills at Cartago Night School.

6. •To identify the reading competencies in the students.
•To document the methodologies in usage.
•To state the strategies implemented in classrooms

7. •To estimate teacher´s knowledge about Community Learning.
• To create a pilot scheme for the implementation of a Knowledge
Community.

8. •Knowledge Community Methodology
•Reading Competencies
•Methodologies in usage
•Teachers Background
•Strategies used by Teachers

9. Location
Population
History

10. • MIXED APPROACH

11. • Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources

12. • POPULATION (TENTH GRADERS)
• SAMPLE (30 students, 10-8)

13. 3%
17%
26%
37%
17%
A lot
Quite
Somewhat
Little
Nothing

14. 7%
16%
37%
33%
7%
Always
Almost Always
Sometimes
Almost Never
Never

15. 23%
27%
20%
13%
17%
Always
Almost Always
Sometimes
Almost Never
Never

16. 37%
43%
10%
3%
7%
A lot
Quite
Somewhat
Little
Nothing

17. 43%
27%
24%
3% 3%
A lot
Quite
Somewhat
Little
Nothing

18. READING COMPETENCIES
Conclusion: Insufficient level
Recommendation: Activities based on Knowledge Community
method

19. Conclusion: Grammar Translation is not effective
Recommendation: Increase the use of target content.

20. Conclusion: Obsolete Strategies
Recommendation: Learner centered activities

21. Conclusion: Teachers know the method but they do not use it
Recommendation: To train Teachers

22. Concept Amount COST PER
UNIT
Amount
(colones)
Amount (dollars)
Professional
Services
50 18.000 810.000 1500.00
Photocopies and
handouts
80 15 1.200 2.22
Registration
process fee every
quarter
2 55.000 110.000 203.70
Bus Tickets 20 1700 34.000 62.96
TOTAL 955.200 $ 1768.88

24. • To create a pilot scheme to implement of a
Knowledge Community in Cartago Night
School.

25. • To promote the innovation of English Teaching methodologies.
• To develop a pilot scheme for Teachers about Knowledge Community.
• To provide students with different learning opportunities

26. • EDUCATIONAL IMPACT
• POLITICAL IMPACT
• SOCIAL IMPACT

27. • A study on the application of a community knowledge in
children
• An analysis of the implementation of a community
knowledge in elderly people