2. I N T R O D U C T I O N
Investigations must demonstrate that there is a Social impact.
In that case, this report devoted to the factors that affect the
pronunciation of the English language, determines that there
would be an improvement in the community inside and
outside the University environment, students would not be
affected within groups to be compared between those who do
well and poorly mainly by being compared by state and
private universities. The pronunciation is one of the most
important parts when it comes to learning English, and those
students will be able to dominate this skill is essential,
because it represents the way professionals will be seen as a
future teacher. Therefore, Are there improvements to factors
that determine this aspect in non-native speakers?
3. A C T U A L S I T U A T I O N
Deficit in the pronunciation and intonation of
the students in second cycle of the English
Pedagogy career at UDLA, which prevents
students cope with absolute confidence with
the foreign language.
4. J U S T I F I C A T I O N
• Social impact inside and outside the university.
• University–Academic Mesh and students seems to be
uncommitted in this aspect (pronunciation).
• A future teacher needs an excellent pronunciation in order to
make it part in a future lessons, because he or she will be a
role model.
• Students are seem to be affected in pronunciation because
in Chilean Spanish they tent to omit many sounds, and in
English are mostly very important especially final sounds,
those are the most difficult and need more work, most of the
time.
5. O B J E C T I V E S
1. To improve pronunciation of words and
phonemes.
2. To promote confidence in students.
6. E X P E C T E D O U T C O M E S
1. The pronunciation of phonemes and sounds
will improve.
2. By the time the investigation ends, at least
most of the students will be feeling more
confident, and those who won’t keep working
with them.
7. T H E O R I C A L F R A M E W O R K
Stephen Krashen: Affective Filter
• Motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety affect the
acquisition of a second language.
Lev Vigotsky: Zone of Proximal Development
• Learning awakens a variety of internal developmental
processes capable of operating when the child is
interacting with people around them and in cooperation
with some such
8. R E S O U R C E S
•Online activities
•Computer
•Cell phones
•Speakers
•Online dictionaries
9. M E T H O D O L O G Y
•Practice class by class: teacher-student/
between students
•Use of Social Media (Skype and WhatsApp)
•Use of audios and videos
•Worksheets
10. E V A L U A T I O N
1. Students will have to present a free topic.
2. Students will have to use a PPT that will show mainly media
to support the presentation. Not long pieces of texts.
3. The presentation will have to be structured (intro-body-
conclusion). Students will have to give reasons about the
topic they chose, the connection with their life or the way they
think, why it is important.
4. Five minutes long (maximum)
5. After presenting, the rest of the class will give opinions or ask
questions. And give opinions or comments about the speech
and pronunciation.
6. The aim of this presentation as evaluation is to make students
show everything that has been taught and learned (content)
more over to evaluate individually the progress in confidence.
11. W O R K S C H E D U L E: G A N T T C H A R T
Purpose : Improve confidence – Improve pronunciation
Classes
Activities
Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 Class 9
To present the material
Online exercises
Private classes with students via Skype
Work at the Computers lab
Pair work: listen to audios, then transcribe them.
Students record audios and send them to the
teacher via WhatsApp
To use online dictionaries
To practice with classmates
To practice with the teacher
Pair work: one students create wrong sentences
and the other classmate fix them
Pair work: students record sentences and show
them to their classmates
12. B I B L I O G R A P H Y
•vigotsky.idoneos.com/349083/
•www.fchst.unlpam.edu.ar/iciels/164.
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