Real life activities to enhance communicative approach on an EFL classroom.

Abstract

It is a document about my observations and the current needs of adolescents, the desire to look for strategies to help students during the learning process of an ESL.

The students were not familiarized with speaking productions in the class. They considered English classes boring, uninteresting, and even a waste of time. I realized that the group had no interest and often a lack of attention. Therefore, I decided to integrate didactic material to establish how effective they could be if they appeared at different stages of the class as an engaging resource to favored the communicative interaction.

Developing the topic of study it is expressed to precisely the result of analyzing this experience, which in turn, was closely related to the idea of developing Speaking Skills applying the Communicative Approach in each of my students. Therefore, the didactic materials would be an appropriate strategy to engage the students in class content and to promote English language learning more effectively.

Through time, I notice that the students were interested in the class and that effectively, using didactic material was promoting learning not only in the classroom but in quotidian life as the activities were contextualized in daily situations.

This is closely related to the purpose of teaching English in Junior High School education, which states that the purpose of studying a foreign language (English) is that students participate in certain social practices of language, both oral and written."