RESEARCH THEME

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 GRUP10.210.2510.3

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 timeSome of the timeMost 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

10.210.3

10.4

10.5

10.6

10.710.8

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

610 9 9

1114

108 7

5

15 14 1311

13

17

15

1615

1712

1314

13

19

13

1817

14 1618

TendencyPre-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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