A descriptive study on the effects of using memory games on the reading skills of 7th graders of CINDEA San Antonio, 2018.
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This document presents a proposal to improve the reading skills of 7th grade students at CINDEA San Antonio through the use of memory games. It begins with an introduction and background on the problem of students struggling with reading comprehension. The general and specific objectives are outlined, which aim to establish the effects of memory games on reading skills. Variables, scope, limitations and frameworks are discussed. Analysis of observations, interviews and questionnaires provide data on students' reading abilities and teachers' strategies. Conclusions note that students would benefit from activities to improve English skills. Recommendations include understanding students' needs and focusing on all language skills. A proposal is presented to implement memory games to enhance vocabulary and comprehension.
A descriptive study on the effects of using memory games on the reading skills of 7th graders of CINDEA San Antonio, 2018.
- 1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN CARRERA DE LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF USING MEMORY GAMES ON THE READING SKILLS OF 7TH GRADERS OF CINDEA SAN ANTONIO, 2018 EMILY R. CARRILLO MORALES
- 2. INTRODUCTION
- 3. BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM •Struggle in reading comprehension. •Lack of English background . •jobs and other responsibilities. •Pedagogical strategies.
- 4. PROBLEM STATEMENT How to improve the reading skills through the application of Memory Games in 7th graders at CINDEA San Antonio?
- 5. GENERAL OBJECTIVE To establish the effects of using Memory Games on the reading skills in 7th graders aiming the development of a proposal that improves the performance students at CINDEA San Antonio, 2018.
- 6. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES • To determine the deficiencies of the curricular program of CINDEA in the application of effective use of English for reading lessons. • To analyze the strategies used by teachers in the improvement of reading skills among students in the application of methodologies. • To identify a set of games which are suitable for the population of CINDEA in the enhancement of reading comprehension. • To analyze the influence of andragogy in the improvement of reading skills among students at CINDEA. • To develop a proposal of strategies for 7th graders for aiming an improvement in the English performance
- 7. VARIABLES • Deficiencies of the curricular program at CINDEA • Strategies used by teachers in the improvement of reading skills • The objective of the use of games for students from CINDEA • Influence of andragogy in the improvement of reading skills
- 8. SCOPE •This investigation intends to be developed among the 7th graders in order to understand deeper the status of the reading performance in CINDEA San Antonio 2018 since these students have a hard time trying to understand English and it is needed to know if there is any possibility encoring to develop reading habits.
- 9. LIMITATIONS The high absenteeism of the population, the large number of extra-curricular activities (such as science fair, Student Arts Festival, among others) that may limits the time of our investigation.
- 11. HISTORICAL REVIEW San Antonio is a community originated in 1939 with farmers from Turrialba, Heredia, San José and Puriscal. • The population increased considerably with the arrival of the banana Company Standar Fruit Company. • With the arrival of the banana disease called Sigatoka, production is dramatically affected by producing large-scale workers ' cutbacks at that time a decrease in population. • CINDEA San Antonio was founded in 2015.
- 12. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK BRIEF HISTORY OF COSTA RICAN EDUCATION The colonial life is characterized in the educational field by a close influence of the learning of the Christian doctrine, in addition it was taught to read and write, and the elements of grammar and arithmetic were given. At that time education was a growing teaching of religious doctrine was the greatest boom, however, as it was commented, they also learned basic elements such as grammar and arithmetic to foster those areas.
- 13. • THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION According to the Basic Law of Education of the Republic of Costa Rica, are established as purposes: • The formation of citizens who love the country, aware of their duties, their rights and their Fundamental freedoms, with a deep sense of responsibility and respect for human dignity. It is common to observe in the civic acts or in the work in the classroom the lack of interest and apathy of the students before the important dates established in the school calendar. • Contribute to the development of the human personality. The Costa Rican educational system is shipwrecked among content-saturated curricula, many extra-curricular activities and the enormous amount of paperwork.
- 14. • ANDRAGOGY OR ADULT EDUCATION In its basic meaning, includes the reference or conduction, of a grouping of pedagogical strategies in which those who learn are adults. In a sense it is the counterpart of pedagogy, more focused on childhood and adolescence. The educational paradigm of Corte Andragógico is based on the demands of the adult, who has the power of decision on what to study and what he wants to do, this according to his requirement for learning. From the work Andragógico is required more than the teacher makes known, being autonomous in his learning, which can vary depending on the way of teaching, experience and group interaction. In this discipline it is applied immediately what is learned making it more didactic and easy.
- 15. INTEGRATED YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION CENTERS (CINDEA) • The MEP offers the possibility of study to adults and young people, hence the reason for the integrated centers of education of youth and Adults (CINDEA). These are born with the aim of incorporating different educational modalities (academic and technical) whose central characteristic is flexibility.
- 16. DESCRIPTIVE INVESTIGATION • This investigation, it tries to quantify and describe the factors affecting the English teaching- learning process in the students, with the aim to propuse strategies to an improvement. In this way, to establish the level of sensitivity teachers regarding the necessity of learning improvement. EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION • In terms of the contextualization of the educative process at the Region of Roxana-Pococí, there are economic and social situations. So, it is proposed to make an exploratory investigation to widespread and compare the existing information.
- 17. QUALITATIVE APPROACH • The qualitative approach is based on the hypothetical deductive method, but in this specific case it can also work with research question. It defines theories, initial questions and research objectives, of which throughout the project will be tested through appropriate investigative designs. It analyzes the variables as part of an established context, analyzes measurements and of them comes the conclusions of the work. QUANTITATIVE APPROACH • Quantitative analysis involves scientific or mathematical data to understand a problem, such as analyzing surveys to predict consumer demand. This approach contrasts with the qualitative approach which uses a more socialistic methodology such as interviewing people. The quantitative approach focuses on the results from many people, instead of focusing on individuals. Often a combination of the two approaches is used to solve a problem, taking advantage of the approaches.
- 18. Population and sample The sample consisted of 15 students from 7th grade These students are mature enough; aspect to take into account at the time of the application of the instruments. All students at this level have difficulties with reading skills. -Technical instruments to collect data -Questionnaire -Interview -Observation
- 19. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS
- 20. ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATIONS • The teacher starts explaining a pre reading activity develop in the class, she provides the steps to follow, some of them ask if she can repeat the instructions because they did understand very well; before she introduce us to the class and what we are doing there. • Through some slashes teacher introduces a new topic called greetings, leave takings and introductions providing basic vocabulary and expressions like hello, how are you? this is Tracy, nice to meet you; after she provides this new set of phrases, she asks to the students repeat the words after her to get the right pronunciation of the words, after three times of repetition of the words, the teacher considers that was right to continue with the rest of the material.
- 21. • The class included students from different ages some of them from ages to 15 to 45 years, the teacher told us that sometimes was very difficult to develop the class because of the learning level of the students.
- 22. ANALISIS OF THE INTERVIEW • According with the information provided by the teacher she has been working for the CINDEA San Antonio for two years, but she says that she never received a feedback or previous information about the curriculum, she confesses that she must to searched information to start working and planning for them because the system is very different from the rest of the syllabus and planning format. • Talking about the strategies, she mentioned that she must apply a variety of activities and strategies because of the program of CINDEA , the average of ages plays a very important role in the development of the class, the economic situation too, sometimes the students do not have the enough money or the ways to go to the High School building, so they lost many classes during the week and then go back the information next week, this situation increases the risk of the desertion of the students
- 23. • She mentioned some of the activities that she use in the classes to students learn in a funny way and acquire better the knowledge of the skills applied in classes such as puzzles, soup letter, diagrams, and other activities but she expresses that sometimes those strategies do not work because the students feel ashamed of practice them or feel like are things for kids; son she says that she must create new activities or strategies to improve the language acquisition. • Regarding to the programs of CINDEA she feels that sometimes cannot apply them in the correct way because there are many external factors that interfere in the learning process of the students, in most of the classes he can develop them and applying but she and all of her partners have difficulties with the process, also she mentioned that Public Minister of Education do not take into consideration the programs of CINDEA when they add new modifications to the programs, syllabus and evaluation rules it means that they want they continue applying the same system but the new modifications.
- 24. ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRES NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO RECOGNIZE BASIC PARAMETERS RELATED TO THE EDUCATIVE CURRICULUM OF CINDEA Source: Chart 1
- 25. EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM WITH RESPECT TO THE TYPE OF EDUCATION Source: Chart 2
- 26. THE ROLE OF THE STUDENT IN RELATION TO THE EDUCATIVE PROGRAM AT CINDEA Source: Chart 3
- 27. THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER IN RELATION TO THE EDUCATIVE PROGRAM AT CINDEA Source: Chart 4
- 28. ABOUT THE TRAININGS RECEIVED BY TEACHERS ON THE PROGRAM OF THE CINDEA Source: Chart 5
- 29. IN RELATIONSHIP TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE STUDENTS ABOUT THE EDUCATIVE PROGRAMS IN THE CINDEA . Source: Chart 6
- 30. ABOUT THE INFORMATION RECEIVED WITH RESPECT OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS USED IN CINDEA Source: Chart 7
- 31. PERCEPTION ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EDUCATIVE PROGRAM AT CINDEA Source: Chart 8
- 32. FREQUENCY OF THE APPLICATION OF READING ACTIVITIES IN THE CLASS Source: Chart 10
- 33. EXPERIENCE OF THE STUDENTS IN THE USE OF STRATEGIES RELATED TO READING Source: Chart 11
- 34. WITH RESPECT TO THE USE THAT IS GIVEN TO GAMES IN THE ABILITY TO READ DURING CLASS Source: Chart 15
- 35. ABOUT THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS WHEN THE TEACHER USES GAMES IN CLASS Source: Chart 18
- 37. • The educational system spends a lot of resources for teaching a second language, specifically, the English language however the results are not what is expected. • According to questionnaire and observation applied, many students are adults with other responsibilities besides studying. • Students were asked if they think in English and the result was negative, they do not know how to develop this skill. • The andragogy application, is not been use it in the right way. CONCLUSIONS
- 38. COST OF THE STUDY
- 39. RECOMMENDATIONS • Teacher should be aware of their social and emotional needs. Understanding more about the families of the students and their needs is the key. • Thinking in English to help to write with congruency but also can help in reading vocabulary outside of class.
- 40. • The program of English provided by the Ministry of Education is supposed to focus in speaking, reading, writing and listening, but teachers prepare them for the bachillerato exam which focuses in reading comprehension. integrates activities that strengthen the listening area. • It would be good if teacher change their mind and focus to teach English where the four skills can be developed.
- 41. PROPOSAL OF A SET OF READING TECHNIQUES FOR A CREATING BETTER READING COMPREHENSION ON 7TH GRADERS
- 42. PREFACE This proposal aims to equip students with tools to improve their quality of life in the world of work, education and home. The student who normally faces enormous difficulties in learning and understanding a new language and in addition to achieving his goals that is to gain the bachillerato tests, is important to him as in most cases as a conscious adult who is, to learn a new language but in most cases, it is very difficult.
- 43. GENERAL OBJECTIVE To implement games on aspects that improve the quality of learning of the adult students of home related to the work and educational field that encourage the participation of the same students and teachers.
- 44. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES • To develop a set of games that help and improve the reading comprehension skill of the students for developing communicative skills that allow them to be adequately developed in the educational and work field. • To train the students in the knowledge of new basic vocabularies and strategies for reaching the optimum level according to the national tests.
- 45. SCOPE There were found issues with the time during the process, being that this is a time- consuming work to develop this task, furthermore, the process of learning for the students considering their previous lack of knowledge.
- 46. PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT • PHASE 1: CHOOSE A SET OF MEMORY GAMES THAT CAN BE SUITABLE FOR THE SCHOOL POPULATION IN ORDER TO ENCREASE THEIR VOCABULARY. • PHASE 2: DEVELOPMENT OF THE GUIDELINE OF MEMORY GAMES IN READING SKILL. • PHASE 3: PRESENTATION OF THE DOCUMENT TO THE ADMINISTRATION
- 47. COST OF THE PROPOSAL
- 48. SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSAL • STHRENGTHS An important strength of this proposal is that there is a high probability to find varied examples of suitable games for development of reading comprehension skills. • WEAKNESSES Students are not accustomed to reading in their native language or they do not like reading at all and this will probably cast an extra effort in the target language.
- 49. • OPPORTUNITIES Mostly of our students like to listen to music, somehow, they may like different genres. A way to promote or encourage learners is through their favorite music lyrics and create a proper game for that task. • THREATS Lack of time is one of the biggest threats the teacher will face to achieve the goal, also the possibility that the games or activities might not be of the like of the students or not obtaining the result desired.
- 50. IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSAL
- 51. • INSTITUTIONAL IMPACT: Considering that, the high school does not present a specific structure for teaching through memory games. It would become a helpful aspect to have a specific point of reference that facilitates the use of these techniques as part of their management. • COMMUNITARY IMPACT: The program of CINDEA covers a large population of students from many communities that are benefited by the improvement in the reading levels. • STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IMPACT It is a fact that students and teachers are the main beneficiaries of this type of educational proposals that encourage changes in traditional paradigms within the subject of formal education.
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