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1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER
FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN
CARRERA DE LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
TESIS PARA OPTAR POR EL GRADO DE LICENCIATURA EN ENSEÑANZA DEL
INGLES
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE REINFORCEMENT OF ENGLISH
VOCABULARY PROVIDED BY THE USE OF HAIKU POEMS WITH 7TH GRADERS
AT PROGRAMA DE EDUCACIÓN ABIERTA IN CIUDAD COLÓN IN 2017.
JORGE VINICIO CAMPOS ARIAS
SAN JOSÉ, SETIEMBRE 2017

2. INTRODUCTION
For many years students from Educación Abierta
have dealt with the necessity to face English, most of
them are really afraid of learning a new language, the
most significant problem they have is the lack of
sources of vocabulary, this is why the main purpose
of this research is to provide a very well designed
guide for teachers to apply Haiku poems in their
classes.

3. JUSTIFICATION
This research is very important because students will
be able to learn and practice the target language in a
different way that the ones they have seen in
previous years or systems like high schools.

4. PROBLEM STATEMENT
When we are talking about types of literature to
teach English to adult students who had never been
involved in English classes or they are limited by the
lack of vocabulary or even the lack of interest, many
ideas come to our mind. One of those ideas is to
implement literature in English classes, but, what
type of literature can teachers use to reinforce the
acquisition of vocabulary. We have different types of
literature and they are all an incredible source of
vocabulary and also very good ways to involve the
students in the language.

5. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To analyze the influence of Haiku poems in the
reinforcement of learning vocabulary for 7th graders
with the purpose of providing a suitable work guide
at Programa de Educación Abierta in Ciudad Colón,
2017.

6. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 To define English teaching methods for including
literature in English classes
 To describe the 7th graders background for
understanding the lack of motivation
 To determine the motivation that 7th graders have
regarding English classes with the purpose of
improve it

7. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 To describe the socio-economic environment present
in the community for a better understanding of 7th
graders daily life
 To analyze the methodologies that teachers can
apply in English classes for understanding 7th
graders life in classroom
 To develop a detailed guide for the application of
Haiku poems in the acquisition of vocabulary for 7th
graders

8. VARIABLES OF THE RESEARCH
 English teaching methods.
 7th graders background.
 7th graders motivation to study English.
 Economic and socio-cultural environment of the
community.
 Methodology in English classes.

9. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
This research is being developed in the Programa de
Educación Abierta in Ciudad Colón.
It belongs to the 05 Circuit from Dirección Regional
de Puriscal.

10. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
VISION
The Vision of this institution is to
form a profile of student as an
authentic person, capable to love
and live in harmony, reflexive;
responsible of himself, of the rest
of the people, and the
environment he lives in.
MISSION
The Mission of the institution is to
promote the integral development
of the students by mean of a focus
education in the person, based on
ethical values, esthetical, of
citizenship, moral and ecological,
that promotes their expression
and creativity capacity, projecting
the students in a good way for the
society.

11. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Benjamin Wong (2012) states that:
“Many colleagues may face many difficulties
when teaching students nowadays. They may
have a general impression that teaching
students today is more difficult to some
extent when compared with the past. Indeed,
I found today’s students are different from
those in the 1980s”. (page 84)

12. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Learning styles
Auditory: Use of images, maps or graphic.
Visual: Through listening or speaking techniques
Read and Write
Kinesthetic: Through tactile representation of
information

13. INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS
Observation
Teacher tried to applied the direct method; students
are invited to copy from the board and repeat the
commands. Most of the students have problems with
the pronunciation. The teacher does not have access
to technology devices, there is a flat screen T.V. but it
does not work.

14. INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS
Interview
Teacher mentioned that they presented those
feelings at the moment to start this class because of
different reasons, and in other classes or activities
was so hard the fact that they have express
themselves in a second language. They said that
feelings like anxiety, frustration, fear, low self-
confidence, shame and insecurity were common
when they tried to apply the new language
vocabulary.

15. INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS
Questionnaire
Students were questioned about the methods like
repetition of commands, the calcification they would
give to the teacher and the calification of their
performance during classes and also the strategies
that they preferred during English classes.

16. GRAPH No 1. AGE OF STUDENTS
25
12.5
12.5
50 15-25
25-35
35-45
45 or more

17. GRAPH No11. PREFERRED SKILL BY
STUDENTS
12.5 0
62.5
25
Listening
Reading
Speaking
Writing

18. GRAPH No 2. OPINION OF THE STUDENTS
ON THE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN THE
LEARNING OF ENGLISH
18.75
37.5
31.25
12.5
Satisfactory
Regular
Bad
Good

19.  GRAPH No 14. PREFERRED TEACHING
STRATEGY BY THE STUDENTS
43.75
6.25
43.75
6.25
Videos
Literature
Songs
Movies

20.  GRAPH No 3. KNOWLEDGE OF THE
STUDENTS ABOUT ENGLISH LITERATURE
43.75
50
0
6.25
A little
None
Enough
Regular

21.  GRAPH No 4. TOTAL HOURS THAT
SUDENTS WORK PER DAY.
81.25
6.25
6.25
6.25
8 or more
4
Does not work
5 or 6

22.  GRAPH No 7. REASONS WHY STUDENTS
ARE ATTENDING TO THE PROGRAM.
6.25
93.75
Work
Quality of life
Personal Growth
Family

23. CONCLUSIONS
 ENGLISH TEACHING METHODS
 Based on the answers from the students most of the
activities that teacher applies during classes are
focused on the direct method. Even though, it is
important to point out that teacher also applies
different techniques based on the vocabulary
acquisition due to in this particular program
students only apply one exam per year and only have
three lessons per week.

24. CONCLUSIONS
 SEVENTH GRADERS BACKGROUND
 Students believe that English is a very important
tool in order to improve their academic formation,
in order to get new jobs opportunities, and
improve their life quality

25. CONCLUSIONS
 SEVENTH GRADERS MOTIVATION TO STUDY
ENGLISH
 Their motivation is a personal growth over the
need to get a better job or a family inspiration. It is
important to mention that no matter what are their
reasons to take their studies back, they are focused
on what they want and they are prepared for
whatever comes in order to achieve their main goal
what is their high school diploma.

26. CONCLUSIONS
 ENVIRONMENT OF THE COMMUNITY
 Most of the students agreed that Ciudad Colón is a
very safe place; they state that this place is not
vulnerable to felony acts, actually they say that
most of them have never been a victim of any type
of crime in their community.

27. CONCLUSIONS
 METHODOLOGY IN ENGLISH CLASSES
 Students would like to change the methodology
used by the teacher, most of them expressed that
videos and songs would be good strategies to
develop their listening and speaking skills.
However, students were questioned about the
previous experience they have about literature in
English and their answers reflect a very deficient
background from the learners on this topic

28. COST OF THE STUDY
COST OF THE STUDY
CRITERIA QUANTITY COST PER UNIT
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(DOLLARS)
Enrollment 2 7.000 140.000 247
Professional hours 90 13.602 1.224.180 2.155
Transport 26 2.000 52.000 92
Copies 20 2.500 50.000 88
Print of Final version 3 15.000 45.000 79
Total 1.511.180 2.661
Source: Campos, Vinicio (2017)
Exchange rate BCCR, August 20
th
: $1= ₡568,89
Colypro Fee ₡13.602 fecha 28/08/2017

29. RECOMMENDATIONS
 ENGLISH TEACHING METHODS.
 Given the case that the main reason why students do
not speak English in a proper way is because of the
fear to mispronounce the words, we can recommend
teachers to get more information about new teaching
methods like the one proposed in this study. All of
this in order to encourage students with new
techniques and also to improve the quality of their
lessons.

30. RECOMMENDATIONS
 SEVENTH GRADERS BACKGROUND
 To students to give the extra mile and forget all these
previous inconveniences because if they get frustrated
they will get blocked and the learning experience will
not be satisfactory.
 To the teacher we can recommend to take into account
all these aspects of the students´ background and
understand that this is not simple for them and that
they are doing a great effort to continue with their
school.

31. RECOMMENDATIONS
 SEVENTH GRADERS MOTIVATION TO STUDY
ENGLISH
 This is why we recommend to teachers to correct
students in a way that they feel comfortable, they
are grown people and they understand when they
make a mistake, but, it is important that they do
not feel embarrassed in front of the class.

32. RECOMMENDATIONS
 ENVIRONMENT OF THE COMMUNITY
 The socio-cultural environment in this community
is a high point and makes the population feel
proud of living in this town. Perhaps we can make
a recommendation to the local government to
continue in the way they are working right now.
Students feel comfortable and this is the most
important aspect to be remarkable.

33. RECOMMENDATIONS
 METHODOLOGY IN ENGLISH CLASSES
 Identify in advance the learning styles of students
in class contribute to help them to understand
better what they are studying and this leads
learners to be more confident and comfortable
with the contents and apply them in the real life in
a better way.

34. PROPOSAL OF A STRUCTURED
GUIDE FOR TEACHERS ON THE
REINFORCEMENT OF ENGLISH
VOCABULARY WITH 7TH GRADERS
USING HAIKU POEMS

35. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To propose a structured guide for teachers, that
encourage students at EducaciónAbierta in Ciudad
Colón, Sede Rogelio Fernández Güel, for a better
language acquisition using Haiku poems, during
2017

36. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 To develop strategies generating motivation in 7th
graders.
 To elaborate new techniques applying the Haiku
poems in the English lessons for 7th graders.
 To create activities interacting with 7th graders .
 To produce new vocabulary through Haiku poems.

37. CREATION OF ACTIVITIES INTERACTING
WITH 7TH GRADERS PUPILS
 GO FOR A WALK IN NATURE
 FOCUS ON A SEASON OR A SEASONAL
EVENT
 CHOOSE A PERSON OR OBJECT AS YOUR
SUBJECT

38. PRODUCTION OF NEW VOCABULARY
THROUGH HAIKU POEMS
Reinforce the fact that mistakes are the best
feedback ever, try to change their minds and that
they do not take mistake as negative, if not at the
possibility to understand better and learn from the
mistakes.

39. DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES
GENERATING MOTIVATION IN ENGLISH
CLASSES FOR 7TH GRADERS
Some suggestions proposed in order to develop
strategies with the learners are to call your students
by their names, try to find out something about
interests, hobbies, and aspirations

40. ELABORATION OF NEW TECHNIQUES
FOR ENGLISH TEACHING APPLYING
THE HAIKU POEMS
Explaining to teacher that Haiku is a short three-line
poem that uses sensory language to capture a feeling
or an image.

41. CREATION OF ACTIVITIES
INTERACTING WITH 7TH GRADERS
Pay attention to the ideas and suggestions of
students, negotiate with them, make them get
involved in all the aspects of the class

42. ATTITUDE OF THE TEACHER
Show empathy with students, let them know how
glad you are about their improvement, congratulate
them for every achievement reached.

43. COST OF THE PROPOSAL
MATERIALS QUANTITY COST PER UNIT
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(DOLLARS)
Professional Hours 15 13.602 204.030 359.64
Transportation 5 2.000 10.000 17.45
Copies 3 2.500 7.800 13.75
Materials 1 10.000 10.000 17.45
Total 231.830 408.29
Source: Campos, Vinicio (2017)
Exchange rate BCCR, August 20
th
: $1= ₡568,89
Colypro fee: ₡13.602, date 28/08/2017

44. IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSAL
ACADEMIC IMPACT: Increase the motivation of
students through new strategies.
SOCIAL IMPACT: This proposal establishes some
strategies to apply Haiku poems in English lessons

45. SWOT OF THE PROPOSAL
Strengths: Application of a non common strategy to
teach English.
Weaknesses: Reduced amount of lessons per week.
Opportunities: Introduction of new methodology in
English classes.
Threats: Lack of training for teachers.

46. OTHER STUDIES DERIVED FROM THIS
RESEARCH
 Lessons plans based on Haiku poems as a strategy.
 Diagnostic exams at the beginning of the course to
measure the English level of each student.