2014, Number 4
Activities to motivate students' learning at the English language classes
Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 612-622
PDF size: 462.52 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the low motivation in the English language learning, the necessity of developing and improving communicative competence of future professionals in the field of Medicine through this language, as well as the multicultural, and multilingual environment of the Latin American Medicine School and heterogenic academic training of its students stimulated the idea of this research.Objective: to identify the kind of teaching tasks the students of the first year prefer at the English language classes to motivate their learning of English.
Material and methods: theoretical and empiric Methods, qualitative and quantitative techniques were used while developing this research. The quantitative information was processed by means of statistic. The percent was taken as a statistic unit of measurement. The qualitative information was valued through examining different criteria of the participants in this research.
Results: showed that only 1% of students considered that the English language is not important for their future professional proficiency. The majority of the participants expressed a view that the contents of their textbook Vision I are not interesting and lacking of motivation for the students of the LAMS. Students' preference for playful tasks was diagnosed and among some kinds of these tasks they distinguished games.
Conclusions: the diagnostic carried out through this investigation confirmed the necessity of designing a system of playful teaching tasks to be included in classes and encouraged a research project with this goal.
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