This document is a graduation memoir focusing on improving reading skills among tenth-grade students at Desamparados Night High School. It highlights students' and teachers' perceptions of English education and identifies factors affecting learning, such as motivation and social challenges. Recommendations include enhancing intrinsic motivation, departmental collaboration, and conducting workshops to improve vocabulary.

1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER
Graduation Memoir Seminar to get the Licenciatura in English Teaching
Improving Reading in Tenth Grade Students
At
Desamparados Night High School
Presented by:
Georgina Bonilla Pérez
María Elena Rojas Pomarez
Tutor: Lawrence Vega Miranda
2009

2. Introduction
 Disadvantages
 Desamparados Night High School
 Sample
 Suggestions

3. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
 Factors that interfere in the process of
reading and strategies to improve the skill.

4. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 Factors that students face through the process
of learning
 Weaknesses in the present program of the
MEP
 Helpful strategies

5. METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
 Type of investigation
 Population
 Sample (60 students of tenth grade and four
English teachers)

6. GATHERING OF THE INFORMATION
INSTRUMENTS

Students and teachers questionnaire

Class observation

Analysis of the MEP English Program

Administration information

7. VARIABLES

Academic shortcomings

Motivation

Social problems

Personal problems

8. Data Analysis

9. 5. How do you think the English you receive is?
8 students = 8%
25 students = 42%
22 students = 37%
5 students = 13%

10. 7. Which of the following percentages in the development in
English readings do you think get adapted to you?
3 students = 5%
13 students = 22%
35 students = 58%
9 students = 15%

11. 8. Which of the following issues in English reading do you think
you fail the most?
30 students = 50%
12 students = 20%
18 students = 30%

12. 9. Do you consider that the chosen English readings are
interesting?
18 students = 30%
3 students = 5%
9 students = 15%
30 students = 50%

13. According to the teachers answers these are the
results:

14. 2. In which of the following skills do you consider the students
perform the best?
Graphic No. 2
25%
0%
a. Grammar
b. Listening
50%
c. Oral
d. Reading
25%
2 teachers = 50%
1 teacher = 25%
1 teacher = 25%

15. 3. According to the Ministry English Education Program the
English the students receive is:
Graphic No. 3
25%
0%
a. Very Good
b. Good
50%
c. Regular
d. Poor
25%
2 teachers = 50%
1 teacher = 25%
1 teacher = 25%

16. 5. Which of the following percentages in the development in
English reading do you think get adapted to your students?
Graphic No.5
25%
0%
a. One hundred %
b. Eighty %
c. Fifty %
d. Tw enty %
75%
3 teachers = 75%
1 teacher = 25%

17. 6. Which of the following issues in English reading do
you think the students fail the most?
Graphic No.6
0%
a. Vocabulary
b. Idiomatic expressions
100%
4 teachers = 100%
c. Social and Cultural
contents

18. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

Low knowledge in English

No weakness in the MEP Program

Lack of motivation

No support by the Institution

19. Recommendations
 Work on intrinsic motivation
 Work as a department
 Activities to improve vocabulary
 Workshops