The document presents a thesis focused on improving oral English skills among 6th graders at Escuela Praga in Costa Rica through teamwork activities. It highlights the importance of English proficiency for better job opportunities and outlines a proposal for workshops aimed at enhancing students' oral comprehension and engagement in learning. The study also identifies challenges faced by educators and students in the current educational system, along with recommendations for implementing effective teaching methods.

1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER
FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN
CARRERA DE LICENCIATURA EN LA
ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
TESIS PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE LICENCIATURA EN
ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
“ANALISYS OF THE ABILITIES TO DEVELOP
TEAMWORK REINFORCEMENT ORAL
ENGLISH SKILL WITH 6TH GRADERS AT
ESCUELA PRAGA, SAN JOSE, 2018”
YAMILETH SALAZAR VARGAS
SETIEMBRE, 2018

2. JUSTIFICATION
In Costa Rica having a great level of English language is going to
provide better job opportunities. For the last years Costa Rica
have received many companies from other countries where they
see this country as a great opportunity to start them operation
centers or industries

3. PROBLEM STATEMENT
• Develop English skills in the 6th grader on Escuela Praga by using
teamwork activities are going to increase effectiveness in
instruction while bored classes. Optimizing the classes by
delivering some interesting exercises will help our students,
because most of them usually do not like read or do practices in the
mother tongue neither in English.
• Provide some Cooperative Learning Techniques may be hard for
the educator because students English accomplished is weak and
more for this population that are integrate to the educational
system.

4. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To analyze the ability for developing teamwork
reinforcement on oral English skills with 6th graders with
the purpose of providing a suitable work guide at Escuela
Praga, 2018

5. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To describe the English level of 6th graders for a better
understanding of the actual situation.
• To mention factor that influence English thinking that helps
understanding the students mind.
• To determine group working skill for a better performance of
the students.

6. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To identify Brain Processing Model characteristics with the
purpose of apply the correct technique.
• To develop a Proposal for teamwork reinforcement on oral
English skills. By using teamwork with the students are
going to designed at accomplishing goals and are
conducted under a goal structure.

7. VARIABLES
 English proficiency of 6th graders.
 Factor that influence English thinking
 Group working skill
 Brain Processing Model characteristics

8. THE INSTITUTION
 Tarbaca is the fifth district of Aserrí, the districts covers an aera of
15,20 km2. The institution is located in Tarbaca 50 m N from Catholic
Church.
 Escuela Praga was found around 1912 becauseTarbaca did not count
with an educational institution for young people where they can study.
 It has a total population of 150 students.
 This institution professors are seven, including the English teacher.

9. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
In Costa Rica teaching of languages, especially English and
French, began in the mid-nineteenth century. In relation to the
teaching of English in Costa Rica, the first reference was
found from 1825, when the Executive Power decreed the
internal regulations of the Santo Tomás Teaching House, thus
beginning the study of languages in an institutional form.

10. METHODOLOGYCAL FRAMEWORK
• DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH : this study investigated the
effects of develop teamwork activities on student’s attitudes
towards English reading, speaking, and writing courses and
cooperatives learning. The study also investigated if there
was a significant difference in the attitudes of male and
female students and high-achievement and low-
achievement students towards the courses and cooperative
learning.

11. • QUANTITATIVE APPROACH : Quantitative research approach in the collection
of information that is measured with numbers and analyzed using statistical
techniques. Qualitative research aims to formulate text hypotheses, establish
facts, predict, show relationships and describe statistically.
• QUALITATIVE APPROACH : Emphasizes in natural settings, observation and
interpretation. Qualitative research has the goal of understanding a social or
human problem from multiple perspectives. The way to collect the data is by
observations, Narrative, verbal descriptions, people own words among others.
Qualitative studies can develop questions and hypotheses before, during or after
data collection and data analysis.
• MIXED APPROACH: Mixed methods research involves collecting, analyzing
and integrating quantitative and qualitative research.

12. • POPULATION: to reach the main gold of this research the
population is 15 students on the only one group of 6th graders
students from Escuela Praga in Aserrí. Escuela Praga
• SAMPLE: sample is the group of individuals who actually
participate in the study. These are the individuals who end up
interviewing or who actually complete the survey.

13. ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATION
• The situation can be perceived that knowledge of the schoolchild is
unfortunate; the class is spoken in Spanish most of the time. Which
makes it difficult for students to learn the language correctly.
• Typically the teacher gives to students the instruction in English and
then turns to Spanish. When is using this kind of method the student
will learn the language poorly.
• Students get distracted easily and start to laugh when they do not
understand the teacher speaking English.

14. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVIEW TO
TEACHERS
• In the consultation apply to the teacher, some aspects were detected, for
example, most of them coincide that even though they would like to teach
English as Foreign Language, unfortunately they are facing obstacles,
principally the Ministerio de Educación, exams in which students are only
prepared to pass an exam.
• Also the teachers complain about excessive paperwork, meetings, training
and tasks during the working hours this makes ineffective work during the
class.
• There is not enough time during the lessons to follow the Ministerio de
Educación Publica program.

15. ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRES TO
STUDENTS
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY OF 6th GRADERS
4.17
45.8
50
Advanced Intermediate Basic

16. OPINION OF STUDENTS ABOUT HOW MUCH
THEY LIKE ENGLISH
29.17
50
20.83
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Much Less Nothing

17. TIME TO SPEND STUDY ENGLISH OF STUDENTS
12,5 %
20,83 %
66,67 %
One hour a day Half an hour a day Nothing

18. OPINION OF STUDENTS ABOUT USING
DICTIONARY
70.83
29.17
Always Sometimes

19. OPINION OF STUDENTS ON THINKING IN
ENGLISH
33.33
66.67
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Yes No

20. OPINION OF THE STUDENTS ON GROUP WORKING
SKILLS EXPERIENCE IN THE LEARNING OF
ENGLISH
12.5
18.75
37.5
31.25
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Good Satisfactory Regular Bad

21. CONCLUSIONS
• The educational system spends a lot of resources to
teaching a second language, in particular to English.
• However the results are not good, students received
eleven years study English but are not able to handle it
correctly.
• Outstanding thrown a new program this couple years ago
in which the main objective are that scholars can acquire
English but at the same time they will be able to
communicate.

22. GENERAL CONCLUSION
It is essential for learners to feel approved and encouraged
when they reach the goals and objectives of the class in a
positive way. As teachers and an authority at class, we
must encourage and motivate students even when they
make a mistake. This is why we recommend to teachers to
correct students in a way that they feel happy, they are
grown persons and they understand when they make a
mistake, but, it is important that they do not feel
embarrassed in front of the class.

23. 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: Salazar, Yamileth (2018)
Exchange rate BCCR, August 1st : $1= ₡562,76
Colypro Fee ₡13.602 fecha 01/08/2018

24. RECOMMENDATIONS
• Everybody knows that students always are afraid to be tested; it does not matter if it is
in their mother tongue or in a second language the fact to show that they handle the
studied topic creates anxiety and frustration.
• To try to apply or create low-pressure evaluation is essential for students. It is
probable that students know the vocabulary or the grammar structures shown in
class, but lack of confidence and shame can affect their performance.
• This is why we can recommend to teacher to apply learning methods in which
students obtain that comfort and confidence needed to better perform the assigned
work during and after classes.

25. PROPOSAL OF WORKSHOP TO
DEVELOP TEAMWORK
REINFORCEMENTS ON ORAL
ENGLISH SKILLS WITH SIXTH
GRADERS AT ESCUELA PRAGA,
2018

26. JUSTIFICATION
This proposal is for students of sixth grade of school to help them to
reinforce oral comprehension by develop thinking and teamwork
techniques, learner can study in a way which does take too many time due
to additional responsibilities they have outside the school.

27. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To promote the English oral and thinking skill in 6TH graders
aiming the improvement of their learning process

28. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 To identify and adequate activities for promoting the oral and
thinking English technique.
 To propose activities that would reinforce oral comprehension
 To promote activities for studying outside the class.

29. PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOP MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
No.1
1 ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR NATIONAL
ATHLETES
2 COSTA RICAN ART, MUSIC
AND CRAFTS
3
COSTA RICAN TYPICAL FOOD
No.2 4 TYPES OF FOOD 5 EATING HABITS AND
BEHAVIORS AT THE TABLE
6
HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS IN COSTA RICA
WITH SOME CELEBRATIONS IN ENGLISH
SPEAKING COUNTRIES
No.3
7
CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF NATURAL
RESOURCES MISUSE
8
TOURIST ASPECTS
WORLDWIDE AND TOURIST
ATTRACTIONS OFFERED BY
COSTA RICAN COMMUNITIES
9
COMMON ILLNESSES AND NEW DISEASES AND
EPIDEMICS
No.4 10 OUR DEMOCRATIC TRADITION 11 CAREERS, JOBS AND
LIFESTYLES
12 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
No.5 13 MORALS AND VALUES 14
MASS MEDIA AND
COMMUNICATION
ASSESSMENT

30. DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES THINKING IN
INDIVIDUAL ENGLISH WORDS
• The technique will focus on think on individual English words for
everything they see, hear, and do around. Some didactic material
will be provided by the Teacher or Tutor according to the topic.
• Get online using e-mail or social networks to increase accessibility
to your students and finally interact more with learners in class.

31. COST OF THE PROPOSAL
DETAILS QUANTITY
COST PER UNIT
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(DOLLARS)
Elaboration of
Workshop
5 13,602.60 68,013.00 119,8.00
Markers 5 600.00 2,400.00 4,22.00
Professional teacher
hour
30 13,602.60 408,078.00 719.00
Didactic material 24 500.00 12,000.00 21.00
Snacks 24 1000.00 24,000.00 42.00
Total 88 29,304.00 514,491.00 906.00
Source: Salazar, Yamileth (2018)
Exchange rate BCCR, August 1st : $1= ₡562,76
Colypro Fee ₡13.602 fecha 01/08/2018

32. SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS
 The cost of the proposal is very low, each student will be able to
pay.
 The motivation will be high because the proposal is designed to
help them.
 New technique will be learned.
 Fomentation of learning by themselves.

33. WEAKNESSES
 The time that the student dedicates to study is limited due to other
responsibilities.
 Lack of knowledge in grammar and vocabulary can be a barrier to
put into practice the workshop.

34. OPPORTUNITIES
 By using these techniques, students can improve the speaking and
reading comprehension skill
 They will be more prepared to English Proficiency assessment.
 It can be applied to any grader with different topic.

35. THREATS
 Some students will be unable to develop this technique due to
factors that influence English speaking.
 Students can find the proposal a bit tired because each workshop
has six hours a week.

36. IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSAL
Scholars will be the ones who take benefit of this proposal because
additional workshop will be provided to improve their learning process
besides knowing English better will be a great opportunity to find a
job nowadays.

37. OTHER STUDIES DERIVED
 Reinforce the speaking skill by think in English.
 To determinate the capacity of brain when acquires a new
language on child population.
 To apply on tutorials for reapproved courses.