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1. PRESENTACIÓN DE TESIS PARA OPTAR
POR AL GRADO DE LICENCIATURA EN
LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
“THE USE OF GROUP WORK TECHNIQUES
TO IMPROVE THE ORAL AND LISTENING
SKILLS IN THE TENTH GRADERS AT THE
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL LICEO MATA DE
PLATANO-GOICOECHEA”
Licda. Ivonne Barrelier Barquero

2. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
Name: Liceo Mata de Platano
Foundation: 2008.
Mission:
-Quality of education
-Human development
-Equity

3. 
JUSTIFICATION
The lack of English when
working in companies after
the bachellor exam

4. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To use group work techniques to improve the oral and listening
skills in the tenth graders at the public High School Liceo Mata de Plátano in Goicoechea
during the second period of 2013
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
To describe techniques and group work strategies for improving the students oral
and listening skills
To use the communicative approach which is requested by the “Ministerio de
Educación Pública” in Costa Rica

5. 
VARIABLES
 Work strategies
 Group techniques
 Communicative approach
 Students interest
 Topics proposed by MEP
 Students performance

6. 
What is a communicative activity?
 Real life situations
 Communicative purpose
 Communicative desire
 Content, not form

7. TYPE OF INVESTIGATION: Qualitative and descriptive
RESEARCH DESIGN
- Case Study, which is an intensive description and analysis of a group
considered as an integrated system.
INSTRUMENTS AND TECHNIQUES
-Observation
-Survey

9. GRAPHIC #3: EVALUATION OF WORK PERFORMANCE AT MATA
DE PLATANO HIGH SCHOOL, GOICOECHEA, S.J.-COSTA RICA-,
2013. (%)
Source: Barrelier Ivonne . The Use of Group Work Techniques Universidad Magister, 2013.
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10. GRAPHIC #5: CONFIDENCE PROVIDED BY THE GROUP AT MATA DE
PLATANO HIGH SCHOOL, GOICOECHEA, S.J.-COSTA RICA-, 2013.
(%)
Source: Barrelier Ivonne. The Use of Group Work Techniques Universidad Magister, 2013.

11. COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH:
GRAPHIC #7: USE OF ENGLISH IN GROUP CONVERSATION AT MATA DE PLATANO
HIGH SCHOOL, GOICOECHEA, S.J.-COSTA RICA-, 2013.(%)
Source: Barrelier Ivonne . The Use of Group Work Techniques Universidad Magister, 2013.

12. GRAPHIC #8: USE OF SPANISH IN GROUP CONVERSATION
AT MATA DE PLATANO HIGH SCHOOL, GOICOECHEA, S.J.COSTA RICA-, 2013.(%)
Source: Barrelier,Ivonne. The Use of Group Work Techniques Universidad Magister, 2013.

13. CONCLUSIONS
The development of team work is a social competence that has been neglected and
slowly abandoned while technology becomes more and more important.
Students feel more comfortable making oral presentations in front of the class with a
group of classmates that supports him/her.
Students discover their abilities and skills.

14. RECOMMENDATIONS
•Group work should be a complement of the Communicative Approach
•The strategy must be completely defined in terms of topics, contents, rules, activities and,
over all, challenging objectives or targets.
•Taking advantage of the competitive nature of the human being, teachers must generate a
certain level of competitiveness in achieving the objectives.

15. PROPOSAL
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To develop a Conversational English Program focused on group work activities
to prepare students to work in companies and hotels.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Develop students skills
To apply job scenarios for speaking skills development.

16. JUSTIFICATION
It provides learning experiences that can prepare students for a job.

17. MODULE NUMBER 3 : Customer Service
To provide the students common vocabulary and standardized phrases used
in customer service situations
Time: 40 lessons (one lesson per week during the entire year)
General Objectives
Contents
Activities

19. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!