How to help english learners to improve their speaking skill. Case of ninth-graders in Centro Escolar Urbaniza cion Los Angeles in Soyapango, San Salvador in the academic year of 2016

This research project presents an investigation entitled How to Help English Learners to Improve Their Speaking Skill. Case of Ninth-Graders in Centro Escolar Urbanización Los Ángeles in Soyapango, San Salvador in the Academic Year of 2016. To conduct this research, the researcher followed these steps: First of all, the researcher observed the subjects under study for four weeks in order to identify the most troublesome speaking related problems regarding pronunciation, fluency, grammar, and vocabulary. After that, the researcher gathered the data by means of instruments. Those instruments were chosen carefully and also they were designed in order to obtain relevant pieces of information that helped the researcher to get a better and deeper understanding of the situation that ninth-graders under study were encountering in their speaking skill. Finally, the data analysis and its interpretation allowed the researcher to determine the main troublesome factors that prevent ninth-graders from having a good speaking skill performance. This was the basis of the researcher’s recommendations on the matter.

Author dc:creator

• Alvarado Linares, Liliana Carolina

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Llanes Marquez López, Jorge Homero

• Enseñanza del idioma inglés