This document discusses a research project on using dialogues to teach English as a second language. It notes that Panamanian schools do not often use dialogues, focusing more on writing and reading than speaking and listening. The research aims to show how dialogues can help students develop English skills like pronunciation and conversation ability in a natural way. It presents the objectives, research questions, and hypotheses of the study. The document also provides justification for using dialogues and discusses how teachers can implement them in the classroom, such as through role-plays and oral exercises.

1. UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMA
CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO REGIONAL DE AZUERO
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
METODOLOGIA DE LA INVESTIGACION 320 A
TITULO: “USING DIALOGUES CAN DEVELOP
ENGLISH SKILLS”
PARTICIPANTES:
CEDEÑO, YARINETH 7-705-1578
ESPINOSA, EDILBERTO 9-734-293
PROFESORA:
DAYRA CONSUEGRA, M.A

2. Introduction
Through the research on the lack of methods
for teaching English as a second language in
our schools, we have analyzed one of the most
effective tools to increase the English skills.

3. Statement of the problem
 In our country, Panama high schools and primary schools, the use of this useful
tool is not well developed because we always want to learn English writing and
reading without learning speaking and listening skills, so this research will
intend to point out the importance of using dialogues to promote conversation.
 Many professors do not use dialogues to teach English because they think this
technique is bored and the students are afraid when the teacher assigns a
dialogue.

4. Justification  The necessity of dialogues is to learn English language in the
easiest way, fluently and simply. It is valuable to invest time
and effort in the study of dialogues because nowadays is
necessary to speak English to function in the labor, social and
professional sphere.
 We have selected dialogues because we consider it as an
important way to implement this tool to improve our
knowledge and it is pertinent to know and applying it when
we are learning.
 We have seen many problems as the lock of dialogues
technique and students show a low level of English knowledge
and they dislike when the professor assigns them the
dialogues.

5. General Objective
 To demonstrate how useful dialogues can help in
learning English and to evaluate the importance of
using new methods such as dialogues to promote
language learning.

6. Specific objective
 -To employ the dialogues knowledge to make a fluent
conservation.
 -To determine how dialogues can make students able
to pronounce more clearly.
 -To analyze how the use of dialogues develops
language skills such as speaking, listening and then
reading and writing.

7. Fundamental Research Question
 Primary Question:
How can the use of dialogues help students when learning English
and what is the importance of using them?

8. Secondary Questions:
 -How do we teach the students to get a good classroom
environment to practice a good pronunciation?
 -How can we recognize dialogues importance for
improving pronunciation in students?
 - How can we employ dialogues for developing a good
pronunciation?
 -Why is the use of dialogues good for developing
language skills?

9. Hypotheses
 “Dialogues constitute one of the most effective
approaches to foreign language instruction.”
 “When students speak about a daily situation through a
dialogue, it creates a natural interaction.”
 “Dialogues reduce the levels of stress among students
because it is not a hard test, it is only a conversation.”

10. Key terms
 Learning: the acquisition of knowledge or skills through study,
experience, or being taught.
 Knowledge: facts, information, and skills acquired by a person
through experience or education; the theoretical or practical
understanding of a subject.
 Reading: is the process of constructing meaning from written texts,
it is a complex skill requiring the coordination of a number of
interrelated sources of information.

12.  Advantages:
 Dialogues can help the students to obtain the foundation
for language after they can develop their own work,
using others words because they will be able to
familiarize with a topic. Thus creating a conversation or
a dialogue will be easiest.
 Using dialogues in the classrooms helps students to
improve and increase the language skills and then they
can use the knowledge when they have to create their
own conversation according to the moment or situation.

13. How to use dialogues in the classroom?
 Inside of the classroom there are many forms to implement
dialogues as a good way to learn English. To know new words and it
helps students to acquire experience and to learn new terms and
different meanings of new words.
 Teachers can apply oral and listening tests. The students can
dramatize the dialogues like role-plays. A way to increase the
wordbook and listening skills the students can memorize some
dialogues.