RESEARCH THEME IMPLEMENTATION OF DYNAMIC IN THECLASSROOM AND ITS INCIDENCE ON CHILDREN’S PERFORMANCE AND MOTIVATION OF FIFTH GRADEOF BASIC EDUCATION AT “ ANDRES SEVILLA LAUZO” SCHOOL IN GUAYAQUIL, DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR MAY-DECEMBER 2011.
By: Luis Fernando Morán Macías
CAUSES Use of traditional methods Lack of lesson planning Incorrect use of the teaching program.Lack of teaching materialsLack of teachers’ innovational ideas
PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
EFFECTS
BORED CHILDREN UNMOTIVATED CHILDREN LOW ATTITUDE TO ENGLISH POOR PERFORMANCE IN CLASS CHIDREN’S POOR ACHIVEMENT IN THE
TESTS LOSE OF THE CLASSROOM MANAGAMENT
PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
MAIN PROBLEM In what ways does the lack of dynamic activities in class
affects the teaching-learning process in the fifth grades? SECONDARY PROBLEMS How does the lack of teacher’s previous lesson revision
affect the child’s language skills development? How does the teacher’s lack of creativity affect the
child’s motivation to learn English?
PROBLEM SETTING
General Dynamic activities Incidence in teaching-learning process Specific Teachers’ lack of previous lesson revision. Factors affecting the child’s motivation. Factors affecting the child’s attitude. Design theoretical frame to support this investigation. Design a plan to incorporate dynamic activities. Applied valid instruments of data collection
OBJECTIVES
Importance of incorporating dynamic activities. Creation of learning material Institutional goals attainment Meet student learning needs Researcher’s professional development ESPE’s mission Graduation requirements
JUSTIFICATION
Conceptual Defines terms, technical language, concepts,
short theories to support the variables.Spatial Defines the scope of knowledge for the
investigations.Temporal Defines the space time for framing the
investigation (may- sep 2011).
THE THEORETHICAL FRAME
RESEARCH TYPE AND DESIGN Descriptive Quasi-experimental Quantitative and qualitative Population and sample Fielding Instruments for data collection Classroom observation Questionnaires TestsTechniques for data processing and analysis Edition Codification Tabulation Classification
THE METHODOLOGICAL DESIGN
Working HypothesisThe use of dynamic activities increases the learners’ motivation to perform better the class activities.
HYPOTHESIS ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION
CONTROL GROUP EXPERIMENTAL GRUP10.2
10.2510.3
10.3510.4
10.4510.5
10.5510.6
10.6510.7
10.38
10.68
PRE-TEST MEDIA
ACTIVITIES APPLIED IN THE EXPERIMENT Singing Painting Playing games Filling gaps Contest Drawings
PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT
SINGING ACTIVITY
Excellent70%
Good18%
Regular 12%
Activity 1 Singing
PAINTING ACTIVITY
Excellent87%
Good13%
Activity 1, painting
PLAYING GAMES ACTIVITY
31%
56%
13%
No one of the time
Some of the time
Most of the time
All the time
FILLING GAP ACTIVITY
Excellent57%
Good31%
Regular12%
Filling gap activity 2
CONTEST ACTIVITY
Excellent25%
Good51%
Regular18%
Poor6%
Contest activity
DRAWING ACTIVITY
Excellent51%
Good31%
Regular18%
Drawing activity 2
POST TEST RESULTS
Control Group Experimental group0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
11
15.43
POST- TEST MEANS
CONTROL GROUP
Pre-test Post-test10
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
11
10.38
11
CONTROL GROUP MEANS
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
Pre-test Post-test0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
10.68
15.43
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP MEANS
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
Pre-test Post-test0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
10.69
15.44
Variance
Pre-test Post-test2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.22
2.82
Standard De-viation
EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
16
6
10 9 911
14
108 7
5
15 14 1311
13
17
15
1615
1712
1314
13
19
13
1817
14 16
18
Tendency
Pre-test Post-test
Without the incorporation of well designed dynamic activities, classes will become a monotonous process and children won’t have the opportunity to develop their communicational skills and will suffer the consequences in the future.
Based from the results of the pre and post tests this thesis concludes that dynamic activities play an important role in the teaching learning process not only with children but also with young learners and adults, they promote the active participation of learners in the class and help in enhancing the performance an output level of achievement.
A creative teacher with innovative ideas can provide significant solutions to the lack of dynamic activities that this primary school is facing nowadays.
CONCLUSIONS
This research study suggests that educational administrators in this primary school design a plan of training to help not only English teachers but teachers in other areas to develop their strategies in adopting, implementing or designing dynamic activities for children.
It is also very important that future investigations focus their attention to deep this theme in order to find and contribute with more alternatives of solutions to problems of lack teaching materials, lesson planning, unmotivated children, classroom management, classroom interaction etc.
As teachers we must look for strategies to influence directly our students’ motivation helping them change their reality seeing language learning in a different way by incorporating dynamic activities that really help children learn in an enjoyable way.
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