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1. Maureen Brenes Solano
Yessenia Fuentes Pérez
January, 2012

2. Magister
University
¨Developing teaching strategies and
techniques with beginner students at
Unidad Pedagógica Barrio Nuevo High
School¨
Maureen Brenes Solano.
Yessenia Fuentes Pérez.

3. General Aspects
The growth of the world has increased the
society demands.
Costa Rican educative system is living a crisis.
The inclusion of English as a second language
demands an effective and successful process.
Teachers’ motivation towards students’ needs.

4. Objective:
To propose strategies and techniques to
be applied at Unidad Pedagógica Barrio
Nuevo High School to improve English
learning process.

5. ¨ Strategies and
Techniques¨
Refers to :
¨Variety of activities that promote
dynamic learning involving students
in doing things out of the routine and
thinking about what they are doing¨

6. Benefits of Different Strategies
and Techniques:
Motivation
Affective
Cognitive
Class dynamics
Adaptability
The use of games in class time.
Importance of fun and relaxing atmosphere.

7. Type of investigation
It is focused on a qualitative
research.
The purpose of this study is oriented
to collect information and data about
the results of applying different
creative and dynamic methologies to
teach English as foreign language.

8. Variables
Lack of creative activities in English
teaching.
Teachers’ academic formation and
teaching experience.
Effectiveness of the English language
from high school.

9. Analysis of Students’ Survey
24%
35%
31%
10%
Playing Talking Listening Reading
Activities that students like in the English class

10. What kind of practice does your teacher use…?
10%
7%
7%
17%52%
7%
Visual aids
Readings
Games
Books
Photocopies
Dialogues
Role plays
Expositions

11. What suggestions do you like to give to your
teacher?
4%
14%
17%
10%
55%
Less use of the board Speak more in English
Use more visual aids Not use only book
Apply more dynamic activities

12. Analysis Teachers´Survey
What is the biggest difficulty in teaching English?
40%
30%
20%
10%
Time
Syllabus
Sources
Amount of
students

13. Which approach do you use in your lesson?
50%
33%
17%
Communicative
Grammar
Traslation
Audiolingual
Multiple
Intelligences

14. Which positive aspects do creative activities
provoke in students learning?
40%
30%
20%
10% Improve motivation
among students.
Successful learning.
Catch students'
attention
Improve students'
skills

15. Conclusions about students’ surveys
Students of eight-one, are taking 8th grade for first time and a few
of them are repeating it. In this case, the topics of the program will
be new for most of the students.
The students assert that, they like activities of speaking and
listening in English lesson; while reading is boring for them. In a
consequence, talking and listening could be skills for being
developed with creative activities.
It is concluded that students qualify the teachers’ activities “boring”
instead of creative and dynamic. This situation shows the absence
of innovative activities during the lessons.
Most of the students referred to the importance of dynamic
activities because they “Make me enjoy it”. It refers about how
students take pleasure in English lessons and make a significant
learning process; also it assures the students attention.

16. Recommendations about students’ surveys
It is recommended for teachers to know about their students’
abilities and disabilities in order to try to implement the
adequate strategies for all and each one of them according to
their needs.
It is recommended that teachers identify their students’
preferences in order to establish a parallel process when
teacher and students are active protagonists.
It is recommended for teachers to take advantage with
effective plans, about the opportunity to learn a foreign
language and the optimism with the students take the subject
as a chance to learn and know another language, another
culture.

17. Conclusions about teachers’ surveys
It is concluded that most of the teachers have a bachelor
degree in English teaching while none of them have higher
level. In this case, most of them have a standard rank of
education and are competing and working with almost the
same academic characteristics.
There is a variety of troubles when teaching English, which do
not allow teachers to develop their lessons in an adequate
way; for example: lack of time, lack of sources, and the
syllabus.
Most of the teachers apply different approaches. So, it is
significant in this field of English teaching, since teachers can
take many ideas and strategies of each one of them to put
into practice in our lessons.

18. Recommendations about teachers’ surveys
It is suggested to the universities which have the challenge to
prepare English teachers to improve the programs in two important
aspects. First, to provide teachers with a huge knowledge about
attractive, dynamic, creative and modern activities, strategies or
methods which provoke a meaningful teaching-learning process.
Second, to give the opportunity to put into practice this new
knowledge, and share the contributions and ideas that can emerge
from the interaction while teachers’ training.
It is suggested to The MEP to think on certain changes to improve
English teaching; for instance: to provide more time or more lessons,
to update the syllabus taking out or adding contents, to provide
teachers with materials like books, flashcards, CDs’,
videos, newspapers, magazines which students can use and feel
interested , and decrease the amount of students per class.
It is suggested to choose the best method or approach for the
specific topic or activity which will be taught or put into practice, and
make the best choice according to the students’ characteristics.

19. Creative Materials To Encourage
Students To A Better Learning
Process
PROPOSAL

20. General Objective
To improve English teaching lessons
with creative instruments to help
student learn in an effective and
efficiency way.

21. Purpose
Professors need to be proficient in the process of teaching
English for getting the purposes of learning.
The promotion of a favorable environment of learning could
be the first step for a successful learning.
With the use of different strategies and techniques, they are
able to improve their skills without been bored or
disinterested for the English classes.
The following playful or dynamic activities are suggestions for
teachers in order to improve the teaching-learning process.

22. Visual aid material
• Flashcards
• Projector or
computer
• Pictures,
photos and
postcards

24. Audio-Linguistic Material
Listening
•Running
Dictation
•Listen to a
song
•Listen to a
story
Speaking
•Role Plays
•Speeches

25. Reading and Writing Material
Reading
•Newspapers
and magazines
•Sentence
Jumble
•Free Reading
Writing
•Run and Write
•Write a diary
or a Journal
•Describe
Pictures

26. "If the students are not learning the
way you are teaching, then you
must teach in the way they learn“
- Rita Dunn