Tesis de Pregrado - Licenciatura en Educación. Especialidad: Lenguas Extranjeras
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Ítem Acceso Abierto Systematization of the past tense of English irregular verbs in twelve graders at the University College(Universidad Central Marta Abréu de las Villas, 2020-05-21) Román Fernández, Alain; Fernández González, Deyse MatildeThe major paper entitled Systematization of the past tense of English irregular verbs was designed and partially implemented in a twelve grade group of students at the University Colleague, with the objective of systematizing this verb tense to have the students ready to interact and communicate in the English lessons. Different empirical methods were administered to verify the problematic situation declared in the introduction of this paper as well as some theoretical methods to process the data obtained and the theoretical information consulted. Some necessary theoretical and methodological bases about the teaching of English as a foreign language, grammar and the past tense of English irregular verbs suggested by different authors were analyzed. The proposal of the activities was designed taking into account the results of the diagnosis. It was partially implemented and all the activities were performed satisfactorily. Though, the results were not as satisfactory as it was expected, the students were able to communicate intelligible with their classmates, and they were motivated to participate during the lessons. The dialectic materialistic general method was followed, as well as the quantitative approach, mainly the pretest and posttest designÍtem Acceso Abierto Micro-Glocal Project on Age-Related Issues at ‘‘Ramon Pando Ferrer’’ Elementary School(Universidad Central Marta Abréu de las Villas. Facultad Media Superior, 2020-05-21) Fernández Jaramillo, Lázaro Michel; Morales Rumbaut, DianaThis research was conducted to Elementary Education students with the purpose of enhancing Citizenship Education, and to contribute promoting awareness mainly about age-related issues. After the implementation of some empirical methods like: survey, interview, analysis of documents and participant observation; this research reveals that elementary students lack knowledge, attitudes, acting ways and sensitiveness to the elderly. These research deeps into the theoretical and methodological background on the topic and it offers outstanding information regarding age-related issues connecting global and local perspectives. The final scientific result was gathered in a system of extracurricular activities by using storytelling and short stories through the teaching learning process of English in such a way to promote young learners’ awareness on age-related issues as to be better citizens ready to face the challenges of the 21st century.Ítem Acceso Abierto Folletos de juegos linguísticos para implicar a los estudiantes en las clases de Francés(Universidad Central Marta Abréu de las Villas. Facultad Media Superior, 2020-05-21) Monteagudo González, Carmen Lilian; Fernández González, Deyse Matilde; Fernández Torres, Miguel AlejandroThe major paper entittled “A linguistic game booklet to engage sixth graders in French speaking lessons” was implemented in a group of students (members of the Special Interest Group on French language) from "Zeneido Costa LLerena" Elementary School in Santa Clara, with the objective of having them to be more involved in the French speaking lessons as they were interested in learning to communicate in this second foreign language. Their interest of having more attention and involvement during the lessons was known through the administration of some empirical methods such as participant observations, a survey and a pedagogical test. The booklet has eight games that were a result of a building up process. All the games introduced in the teaching learning process functioned well due to their role in motivating and in mobilizing the activity in the multiple ways of organizing the teaching and learning process. The results showed the students´ motivation in learning French, their energy in the lessons and their improvement in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.Ítem Acceso Abierto A system of activities to enhance phonological control in 4th graders(Universidad Central Marta Abréu de las Villas. Facultad Media Superior, 2020-05-21) Padilla Loy, Yasiel; García Cabrera, SireldaPronunciation has always been a gray area in the teaching of English within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and all over the world. That is why, since the very beginning of language teaching, it has been under researched by scholars working in second/foreign language education. As a result, several methods, approaches and techniques among others have been created to address this problem in order to respond to the developments in pedagogical and societal visions. Nevertheless, the reason to their failures lays on the ultimate purpose of pronunciation which was rooted in the traditional idea of the ‘native speaker’ as a model or perception of the norm in pronunciation, focusing in accent and accuracy. Nowadays, a new sensibility has been emerging in the applied linguists’ scholarly community when it comes to re-evaluating this traditional approach. Consequently, the CEFR (2018) carried out an extensive review of literature and consultation with experts in order to redevelop from scratch the phonological control scale which seemed to reinforce the traditional view. As a result, this scale was renewed from scratch creating new descriptors to learn, teach and assess pronunciation. Thus, a new view of the teaching of pronunciation has emerged focusing on intelligibility. The teaching of English in Cuba is facing this problem as well. Our students struggle with pronunciation and their incapacity to understand and being understood, that is why this research was carried out. It is derived from the necessity that the students from 4 th grade at “Mártires de Barbados” Elementary School in Remedios (and all students in general) have shown in their phonological control within the teaching of pronunciation. Therefore, with the intent to address this issue in the Cuban schools, this paper offers a system of activities as a tool to improve 4th grade students’ phonological control within the teaching learning process of English.Ítem Acceso Abierto Developing english reading skills in second year students of agricultural engeneering(Universidad Central Marta Abréu de las Villas. Facultad Media Superior, 2020-05-21) González Álvarez, Dayana Lourdes; Salvador Jiménez, Bertha GregoriaIn Cuba, English is taught as a foreign language. In Higher Education, English is taught through Plans D and E, and it has always been in transformations that demand constant research. The development of reading skills in Plan D is one of the most studied topics and that is why the objective of this research is to propose a booklet of texts with exercises using English for Specific Purposes to develop reading skills in second year students of Agricultural Engineering at Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas. The methodology applied corresponds to a dialectical approach in which a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods is used. The practical contribution is given by the design of a booklet of texts with exercises that contributes to the development of English reading skills in second year students of Agricultural Engineering. The booklet is proposed as a complementary material that could be helpful for students and teachers when dealing with reading. The proposal was assessed by the specialists’ criteria who agreed that the booklet meets the second year Agriculture Engineering students’ ESP learning needs.Ítem Acceso Abierto Contributing to the development of water-pollution awareness in 11th grade students, Class 4, at “Capitán Roberto Rodríguez” Pre-university School(Universidad Central Marta Abréu de las Villas. Facultad Media Superior, 2020-05-21) Pérez Chávez, Jorge David; García Cabrera, SireldaThe objective of this major paper is to propose a system of lessons and project works to increase water pollution awareness in 11th graders at “Capitan Roberto Rodriguez” Pre-university School in Santa Clara. This study highlights the importance of including environmental education in the English curriculum. The students’ strengths and weaknesses were assessed through the administration of different empirical methods such as interview, survey, document analysis. The results revealed that although the sample of students had some knowledge on environmental issues, they showed unawareness on the role they can play in reducing environmental problems. Accordingly, a system of lessons was designed to meet such needs. The proposal was submitted to the criteria of the specialists of the Department of Foreign Languages, from Varela Campus and teachers of English of the General System of Education who evaluated its quality, pertinence, and feasibility. In addition, they offered some suggestions that were essential to the improvement of the proposal.Ítem Acceso Abierto Micro-Glocal Project on Age-Related Issues at ‘‘Ramon Pando Ferrer’’ Elementary School(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media.Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2020-05-21) Fernández Jaramillo, Lázaro Michel; Morales Rumbaut, DianaThis research was conducted to Elementary Education students with the purpose of enhancing Citizenship Education, and to contribute promoting awareness mainly about age-related issues. After the implementation of some empirical methods like: survey, interview, analysis of documents and participant observation; this research reveals that elementary students lack knowledge, attitudes, acting ways and sensitiveness to the elderly. These research deeps into the theoretical and methodological background on the topic and it offers outstanding information regarding age-related issues connecting global and local perspectives. The final scientific result was gathered in a system of extracurricular activities by using storytelling and short stories through the teaching learning process of English in such a way to promote young learners’ awareness on age-related issues as to be better citizens ready to face the challenges of the 21st century.Ítem Acceso Abierto A system of activities to enhance phonological control in 4th graders(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media.Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2020-05-21) Padilla Loy, Yasiel; García Cabrera, SireldaPronunciation has always been a gray area in the teaching of English within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and all over the world. That is why, since the very beginning of language teaching, it has been under researched by scholars working in second/foreign language education. As a result, several methods, approaches and techniques among others have been created to address this problem in order to respond to the developments in pedagogical and societal visions. Nevertheless, the reason to their failures lays on the ultimate purpose of pronunciation which was rooted in the traditional idea of the ‘native speaker’ as a model or perception of the norm in pronunciation, focusing in accent and accuracy. Nowadays, a new sensibility has been emerging in the applied linguists’ scholarly community when it comes to re-evaluating this traditional approach. Consequently, the CEFR (2018) carried out an extensive review of literature and consultation with experts in order to redevelop from scratch the phonological control scale which seemed to reinforce the traditional view. As a result, this scale was renewed from scratch creating new descriptors to learn, teach and assess pronunciation. Thus, a new view of the teaching of pronunciation has emerged focusing on intelligibility. The teaching of English in Cuba is facing this problem as well. Our students struggle with pronunciation and their incapacity to understand and being understood, that is why this research was carried out. It is derived from the necessity that the students from 4th grade at “Mártires de Barbados” Elementary School in Remedios (and all students in general) have shown in their phonological control within the teaching of pronunciation. Therefore, with the intent to address this issue in the Cuban schools, this paper offers a system of activities as a tool to improve 4th grade students’ phonological control within the teaching learning process of English.Ítem Acceso Abierto Contributing to the development of water-pollution awareness in 11th grade students, Class 4, at “Capitán Roberto Rodríguez” Pre-university School(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media.Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2020-05-21) Pérez Chávez, Jorge David; García Cabrera, SireldaThe objective of this major paper is to propose a system of lessons and project works to increase water pollution awareness in 11th graders at “Capitan Roberto Rodriguez” Pre-university School in Santa Clara. This study highlights the importance of including environmental education in the English curriculum. The students’ strengths and weaknesses were assessed through the administration of different empirical methods such as interview, survey, document analysis. The results revealed that although the sample of students had some knowledge on environmental issues, they showed unawareness on the role they can play in reducing environmental problems. Accordingly, a system of lessons was designed to meet such needs. The proposal was submitted to the criteria of the specialists of the Department of Foreign Languages, from Varela Campus and teachers of English of the General System of Education who evaluated its quality, pertinence, and feasibility. In addition, they offered some suggestions that were essential to the improvement of the proposal.Ítem Acceso Abierto Developing english reading skills in second yearstudents of agricultural engineerig(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media.Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2020-05-21) González Álvarez, Dayana Lourdes; Salvador Jiménez, Bertha GregoriaIn Cuba, English is taught as a foreign language. In Higher Education, English is taught through Plans D and E, and it has always been in transformations that demand constant research. The development of reading skills in Plan D is one of the most studied topics and that is why the objective of this research is to propose a booklet of texts with exercises using English for Specific Purposes to develop reading skills in second year students of Agricultural Engineering at Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas. The methodology applied corresponds to a dialectical approach in which a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods is used. The practical contribution is given by the design of a booklet of texts with exercises that contributes to the development of English reading skills in second year students of Agricultural Engineering. The booklet is proposed as a complementary material that could be helpful for students and teachers when dealing with reading. The proposal was assessed by the specialists’ criteria who agreed that the booklet meets the second year Agriculture Engineering students’ ESP learning needs.Ítem Acceso Abierto Systematization of the past tense of English irregular verbs in twelve graders at the University College(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Lengua Extranjeras.Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2020-05-21) Román Fernández, Alain; Fernández González, Deyse MatildeThe major paper entitled Systematization of the past tense of English irregular verbs was designed and partially implemented in a twelve grade group of students at the University Colleague, with the objective of systematizing this verb tense to have the students ready to interact and communicate in the English lessons. Different empirical methods were administered to verify the problematic situation declared in the introduction of this paper, as well as some theoretical methods to process the data obtained, and the theoretical information consulted. Some necessary theoretical and methodological bases about the teaching of English as a foreign language, grammar and the past tense of English irregular verbs suggested by different authors were analyzed. The proposal of the activities was designed taking into account the results of the diagnosis. It was partially implemented and all the activities were performed satisfactorily. Though, the results were not as satisfactory as it was expected, the students were able to communicate intelligible with their classmates, and they were motivated to participate during the lessons. The dialectic-materialistic general method was followed, as well as the quantitative approach, mainly the pretest and posttest design.Ítem Acceso Abierto Folleto de juegos linguísticos para implicar a los estudiantes de las clases de Francés(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Lengua Extranjeras.Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2020-05-21) Monteagudo González, Carmen Lilian; Fernández González, Deyse Matilde; Fernández Torres, Miguel AlejandroThe major paper entittled “A linguistic game booklet to engage sixth graders in French speaking lessons” was implemented in a group of students (members of the Special Interest Group on French language) from "Zeneido Costa LLerena" Elementary School in Santa Clara, with the objective of having them to be more involved in the French speaking lessons as they were interested in learning to communicate in this second foreign language. Their interest of having more attention and involvement during the lessons was known through the administration of some empirical methods such as participant observations, a survey and a pedagogical test. The booklet has eight games that were a result of a building up process. All the games introduced in the teaching learning process functioned well due to their role in motivating and in mobilizing the activity in the multiple ways of organizing the teaching and learning process. The results showed the students´ motivation in learning French, their energy in the lessons and their improvement in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammaÍtem Acceso Abierto Cómo mejorar el vocabulario a través de lecciones de lectura para el 11 Grado, clase 1, en la escuela secundaria superior "IPU Jose Marti"(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Departamento Lenguas Extranjeras. Licenciatura en Educación. Especialidad: Lenguas Extranjeras., 2019-06-21) Collazo García, Yordanys; Patterson Peña, Matilde LeonorThis major paper supports reading lessons with their corresponding activities for the development of the reading comprehension and vocabulary in 11th grade, class 1 at “Jose Marti” Senior High School. The new proposal started in 2018-2019 academic year. Several Iinstruments were administered to the students from 11 th grade, class 1 to identify the problematic situation. The reading lessons are motivating because of the activities, and texts. The suggested lessons fulfill 11th graders’ needs according to the reading comprehension and the expansion of the students´ vocabulary. The suggestions given by specialists, teachers and learners were taken into account as part of the quantitative approach. also supported by qualitative measuring rubrics.The proposal of reading texts and activities are an important source for the development of the reading skill in 11 th grade.Ítem Acceso Abierto El perfeccionamiento de la pronunciación de las consonantes más difíciles difíciles del inglés en la escuela primaria(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Departamento Lenguas Extranjeras. Licenciatura en Educación. Especialidad: Lenguas Extranjeras., 2019-06-21) Espinosa Delgado, Vladimir; Salvador Jiménez, Bertha GregoriaEnglish subject is in the curriculum of every level of education in Cuba, and hence, in Elementary Schools. One of its main objective is to develop speaking in a fluently way, as fluency will effect on the success of communication. During the academic year 2018-2019, the author carried out a research in order to find out the main problems in the teaching learning process of English at “Benito Juarez” elementary school The author noticed that the most affected ability in 6 th grade students was speaking and, more specifically, pronunciation as an important component, were the students´ pronunciation regarding troublesome English consonant sounds was the main troublesome area. At that point, he decided to use some activities in order to have 6 th graders improve the pronunciation of such difficult consonant sounds. The idea was presented to an informal group of discussion who agreed that it is a very important research topic. In this paper, the author searches different ways to address this problem. Therefore, it was necessary to carry out an action-research study. During the process, qualitative and quantitative procedures were combined in order to get a reliable data that permitted the authoress to assess the real situation regarding students’ vocabulary. This paper provides teachers of English with a useful booklet of activities as a tool to help them develop the students’ pronunciation regarding troublesome English consonant sounds. The main transformations were not only in the students’ pronunciation of such difficult consonant sounds but also in the students’ interests toward English.Ítem Acceso Abierto Desarrollo de las habildades de ortografía en Inglés dentro del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la escritura instrumental en la escuela primaria(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Departamento Lenguas Extranjeras. Licenciatura en Educación. Especialidad: Lenguas Extranjeras., 2019-06-21) Hernández Armengol, Laura Beatriz; Fernández González, Deyse MatildeThe major paper entitled: “Development of English spelling skill within the teaching- learning process of instrumental writing in Elementary School”, was carried out at “Ernesto Guevara de la Serna”, Elementary School in Santa Clara. The subjects of research had many difficulties regarding English spelling skill. Some empirical methods were administered to get more information about this difficulties. A preliminary proposal of activities to develop English spelling skill whithin the teaching learning process of instrumental writing was designed and implemented during the academic year (2018-2019). The activities were designed taking into account the results of the diagnosis. The proposal was conceived taking into account some theoretical and methodological bases suggested by different authors. Most of the exercises functioned well as the students were motivated as they had the posibility of improving most of their spelling difficulties. The dialectic-materialistic general method was followed, as well as the qualitative approach, mainly the action research methods.Ítem Acceso Abierto Una propuesta de clases para mejorar el vocabulario en tercer grado(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Departamento Lenguas Extranjeras. Licenciatura en Educación. Especialidad: Lenguas Extranjeras., 2019-06-21) Campos Nodal, Armando Javier; Veitía Rodríguez, MartaDuring the present academic year (2018-2019), the author of this paper carried out his practicum as an English teacher, at Viet Nam Heróico Elementary School in Santa Clara. After the implementation of several research methods, it could be corroborated that the main difficulty in third grade students was the lack of vocabulary. Consequently, the author set as goal to build up a proposal of lessons to contribute to enhance vocabulary in these students. In order to achieve the goal proposed, the researcher revised the necessary bibliographical sources in order to back up the scientific problem stated. After a building up process, in which the suggestions given by the discussion group were all taken into account, the final scientific result that emerged was a proposal of six active skill lessons to contribute to the enhancement of the vocabulary in the subjects of research. Numerous positive transformations were attained in the students’ performance after the teacher’s intervention; however, this Major Paper constitutes a contribution to the enhancement of the third grade students’ vocabulary and it can be a good consulting material for teachers who may face a similar situation with his/her students.Ítem Acceso Abierto Propuesta de clases para sistematizar el vocabulario del inglés en 6to grado(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Departamento Lenguas Extranjeras. Licenciatura en Educación. Especialidad: Lenguas Extranjeras., 2019-06-21) Rodríguez Acosta, Alexander; Fernández González, Deyse MatildeThis major paper presents “a proposal of lessons to systematize English vocabulary in 6 th graders” that was carried out at “Viet-Nam Heróico” Primary School in Santa Clara. Many difficulties were found in the subjects of research regarding English vocabulary. Some empirical methods were administered to get more information about these difficulties. A preliminary proposal of lessons to systematize English vocabulary during the academic year (2018-2019) was applied. A system of lessons was designed taking into account the results of the diagnosis. The proposal was conceived taking into account some theoretical and methodological bases suggested by different authors. Most of the exercises functioned well, the students were motivated as they had the possibility of systematizing different lexical sets. The dialectic-materialistic general method was followed, as well as the qualitative approach, mainly the action research method.Ítem Acceso Abierto Propuesta de un sistema de actividades para contribuir al desarrollo de la habilidad de lectura en 9no grado de la Escuela Secundaria Básica “José de la Luz y Caballero”(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Departamento Lenguas Extranjeras. Licenciatura en Educación. Especialidad: Lenguas Extranjeras., 2019-06-21) Abreu Montalvo, Francisco Domingo; Patterson Peña, Matilde LeonorThis paper offers a system of activities dealing with reading comprehension in English in order to develop this skill in 9 th graders from Carlos Manuel de Céspedes High School, which has been conceived through a process that included needs assessment, elaboration of the proposal and its partial implementation. The elaboration of the proposal of reading texts and their correspondent activities and preliminary evaluation was done through specialist criteria. The proposal responds to the demands of the Junior High School Level. It intends to make a contribution to the improvement of the teaching learning process in this level, particularly in terms of helping students become interested in reading comprehension in English and being able to interpret and summarize what they read, which proved deficient during the diagnosis stage of this research. The proposal is grounded on communicative ideas about the teaching of reading, and is substantiated on humanistic and socio-cultural views of pedagogy. The research has been conducted following these methods: the historical-logical, analysis-synthesis, the inductive-deductive, analysis of documents, Interview, survey, pedagogical test, and specialist criteria.Ítem Acceso Abierto Vocabulary teaching in a foreign language class: games, an effective tool(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2017-07) Ramirez Wals, Yanet; Salvador Jiménez, Bertha GregoriaEnglish subject is in the curriculum of every level of education and hence, in Secondary Schools. Its objective is to develop an elementary level of communicative competence. However, teachers frequently discover that this goal has not been achieved at the end of Secondary School. During the academic year 2015-2016, the authoress carried out a research in order to find out the main problems in the teaching learning process of English at Gerardo Abreu Secondary School. She realized that the students´ vocabulary was one of the main troublesome areas when speaking and that the students were not motivated towards learning English. In the current academic year, the authoress continued with the idea of developing the students´ vocabulary. At that point, she decided to use games as activities that would link vocabulary and motivation. The idea was presented to an informal group of discussion who agreed that it is a very important research topic. In this paper, the authoress searches for ways to address this problem. Therefore, it was necessary to carry out an action-research study. During the process, qualitative and quantitative procedures were combined in order to get a reliable data that permitted the authoress to assess the real situation regarding students’ vocabulary. This paper provides teachers of English with a useful booklet of games as a tool to help them develop the students’ vocabulary. The main transformations were not only in the students’ vocabulary but also in the students’ interests toward English.Ítem Acceso Abierto A Handbook for the Teaching and Learning of Sociocultural Content with a CLIL Approach(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2017-07) Gil Felipe, Liana; Camacho Delgado, AlfredoIn a world where wars and ethnic and religious conflicts are abundant, peace and cultural understanding should become topics to be embraced by educational systems. This major paper presents a handbook for the teaching and learning of sociocultural content with a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach, aimed at evaluating the importance of learning about the society and culture of Canada and Cuba, in order to behave appropriately in the process of communication and develop understanding and respect for the foreign culture and pride towards the students´ own culture. The development of this material was attained inductively applying the following methods: historical- logical, inductive- deductive, transit from the abstract to the concrete, the systemic approach, the analytic-synthetic, participant observation, survey to the students, document analysis, and analysis of the students´ outcomes, teacher´s diary, pedagogical test, teacher reflections and interview to teachers.Ítem Acceso Abierto The development of speaking skills in 8th grade students at ¨Rolando Pedrosa Fernández¨ Secondary School(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2017-07) Hernández Manduca, Anniel; García Cabrera, SireldaThis major paper carried out a deep research into the theory of the communicative language teaching of English in the present Cuban Secondary Schools, specifically in the development of the speaking skills in the English language in eighth grade. The students from this level at the end of the grade should communicate by themselves in brief and simple messages about personal life and their preferences according to the Cuban context. The teaching of English in the Secondary School helps the students to develop communicative skills that allow them to be able to understand and assimilate the language, and to communicate among them in a simple way. This research was carried out at “Rolando Pedrosa Fernández” Secondary School in Báez, Placetas, where the author works, and for the effects of this research a study group was used, which served for the diagnosis and for the development of the building-up process. To carry out this research different instruments and techniques were administered. The practical implementation of some communicative exercises to develop the speaking skills in eighth grade students was carried out and it showed positive results in the students, attaining the objectives for what they were originally designed. Taking into account the elements previously explained, a complementary manual was designed to gather all the exercises that were created throughout the academic course to help the students to put into practice the contents learned in classes. This work consists of six parts: Introduction, Main Part, Conclusions, Recommendations, Bibliography and Annexes.Ítem Acceso Abierto A system of integrated pronunciation exercises for the devolepment of intelligibility in English in 5th graders(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Sánchez Águila, Alianny; Camacho Delgado, AlfredoCet article présent une proposition d’un système d’exercices pour contribuer au développement de l’intelligibilité de la prononciation anglaise chez les élèves de la cinquième année du groupe A de l’école primaire « Viet Nam Heroico ».Ces exercices peuvent être utilisés comme matériel supplementaire pour que les enseignants enseignent la prononciation de manière separée. Les exercices integrent la pratique pour percevoir les caractéristiques de la prononciation anglaise, développer la conscience de ces caractéristiques et les reproduire de manière significative de sorte qu’elles puissent sembler intelligibles en parlant. La proposition a été conçue en tenant compte de la base théorique et méthodologique développée par l’auteur , les résultats d’un diagnostic de l’apprentissage fait dans la 4e classe A, puis mis à jour en 5e à cette école ainsi que les expériences de la mise en ouvre de’une proposition preliminaire des activités . cette recherche a été réalisée à l’aide de l’une variété de methodes theoriques , empiriques et statisques : approche historique et logique , inductif déductif, systémique , analyse- synthèse, observation participante, analyse de documents, enseignant tous les jours , les test d’éducation et de reflexion de l’enseignementÍtem Acceso Abierto The teaching of authentic reading lessons for 9th grade, class 4 at “Ricardo Zenón Martínez Ciscal” Secondary School(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Moreno Isla, Diana Rosa; Patterson Peña, Matilde LeonorThis major paper supports new reading lessons intended for the development of the reading skill in 9th grade, class 4 at “Ricardo Zenón Martínez Ciscal” Secondary School. The new proposal is the product of a research that started in 2017-2018 academic year administering instruments to the students from 9th grade, class 4 to identify the problematic situation, later a selection of the authentic reading lessons and at the end the partial implementation of five lessons. In this academic year, the reading lessons are motivating because of the authentic activities, texts and material aids used in comparison with previous academic years. The suggested lessons fulfill 9th graders’ needs according to the reading skill and the expansion of the students´ vocabulary, as well as their communicative competence in the four language skills. The suggestions given by specialists, teachers and learners were taken into account as part of the quantitative approach that this research paper is following, also supported by qualitative measuring rubrics. Therefore, the authentic reading lessons implemented are an important source for present and future work towards the development of the reading skill in 9th grade.Ítem Acceso Abierto The development of audio-pollution awareness in Non-University Teacher Education Crash Course(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Pérez Morales, Víctor Manuel; García Cabrera, SireldaThis paper was conducted to Non-university Teacher Education Crash Course 2nd year students with the purpose of enhancing their environmental education, and to offer professional insights particularly about audio-pollution. It presents the needs assessment carried out by means of empirical methods like the survey, discussion group and the scientific participant observation and it reveals that the subjects of research, despite the efforts and transformations taken in the environmental education, still lack knowledge, skills , habits and mainly acting ways to protect the environment from audio pollution. This research deepens into the theoretical and methodological background on the topic and it offers outstanding global and local information regarding audio-pollution and concepts such as: environment, noise pollution, and environmental education. The final proposal was gathered in a handbook which comprises theorethical and methodological guidelines, students’ products of the activities, activities and lessons which allow for an active involvement as future educators and higher levels of awareness on environmental protection with a profession oriented role.Ítem Acceso Abierto Website to enhance motivation to learn English in third grade students at “Marcelo Salado Lastra” elementary school(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Alonso Surí, Víctor Manuel; Fernández González, Deyse MatildeThe comprehensive education of men and women starts since the early ages of their lives, first at home and later at school. The elementary level of education is one of the most important of all levels because during this period children begin learning and valuing the processes of studying and acquiring new information. This major paper is part of a task derived from the Institutional Research Project “Innovations in the Didactic Preparation of the Undergraduate Professor of Foreign Languages”. The research was carried out with third graders at “Marcelo Salado Lastra” Elementary School in Santa Clara during the school year 2017-2018. It has been proven that through the use of a website not only students, but also teachers benefit while getting involved in a more humane perspective. The empirical methods administered to a sample of third graders proved that those students were not motivated to learn English as a foreign language. This study offers a website entitled “Hocus Pocus”. It has six main menus and fourteen submenus designed to develop mainly listening, speaking, writing, spelling, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. The proposal can be given to the students to facilitate their self-learning. Once the proposal was designed, it was evaluated by some specialists, whose suggestions were highly appreciated by the author. Finally, the proposal was partially implemented during the previously mentioned school year. The results were satisfactory as the students were more enthusiastic during the English lessons. More students’ spontaneous participation happened and the quality of their answers was better.Ítem Acceso Abierto An Environmental Interest Group for 5 th grade students from “Ramón Pando Ferrer” Elementary School(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Gámez Aday, Yaisniel; Gutiérrez Espinosa, Miguel IraidoEnvironmental Education is concerned with those aspects of human behavior which are more directly related to man’s interaction with bio-physical environment and his ability to understand this interaction. This Thesis assesses the need for Environmental Education in Elementary school. It focuses o n enhancing the students´ Environmental Education in terms of knowledge, motivation and attitudes; emphasizing the essential role teachers play in transmitting the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, so as to restore or at least mitigate the irreversible damage being caused to the environment. The proposal strengthens civic education as a component of Environmental Education through an Environmental Interest Group for 5th grade students, class A at “Ramón Pando Ferrer” Elementary School.Ítem Acceso Abierto Sociocultural contents in 6th grade English lessons(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Rivero Rocha, Betty; Paz Gálvez, Eida de laThis major paper presents a system of lessons with socio-cultural contents for 6 th graders at ―BatalladelCapiro‖ Elementary School. The systemaims to teach the students about new contents they had never been taught, in this case, socio-cultural topics related to some English speaking countries. The development of this system was attained inductively, through action research, and the application of the following methods:historical-logical, inductive-deductive, systemic approach, analytic-synthetic, participant observation, survey, interview, document analysis, teacher´s diary, and pedagogical test. The application of the empirical methods and techniques to gather data about the students´ knowledge on socio-cultural contents, showed positive results and valuable recommendations for enhancing the teaching learning process in this context.Ítem Acceso Abierto Communicative Exercises to Practice the Simple Present Tense in 10 TH Grade, at “Reinaldo Urquiza Ceballos” High School(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Gómez Gutierrez, Dianirys; Álvarez Céspedes, IdelseThe teaching of English in High School is one of the objectives of the Cuban Educational System and speaking, the main ability to be developed. Everyday, teachers face several situations that hinder the students’ proper development in the English language and among these problems; grammar is one of the most troublesome aspects of language. The present participant action research was carried out in 10 th grade, Class D at ‘’Reinaldo Urquiza Ceballos’’ High school. It aimed at improving students’ grammar as a way to back up the development of the speaking ability.In order to achieve this goal, some theoretical methods were administered to gather the necessary information about the treatment given to the speaking ability with emphasis on the teaching of grammar, as well as some empirical methods to diagnose the current situation in the study group . As a result, some changes in the teaching learning process of English were implemented in order to know the possible transformations occurred in the subjects of research and with that data build up a final scientific result. After finishing this process, The scientific result that emerged was a system of five lessons with two communicative exercises each one, all of them aim at dealing with the third person singular and the forms of the verb to be in the simple present tense to back up the development of the speaking ability.Ítem Acceso Abierto A system of integrated pronunciation exercises to enhance accuracy in the third graders(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Suárez Cabeza, Arlety; Camacho Delgado, AlfredoThis paper presents a proposal of a system of integrated pronunciation exercises to enhance accuracy in the third grade students from Class B, from “13 de Marzo” primary school in Santa Clara. The proposal assumes a reflective communicative view of pronunciation teaching and learning. They provide practice in perceiving, developing awareness about and reproducing the features of pronunciation. The exercises were designed taking into account the results of a learning diagnosis conducted in Class 3rd B at this school, as well as the experiences of implementing a preliminary proposal of the activities. This research has been conducted using a variety of theoretical and empirical methods, which were used in light of Marxist-Leninist philosophy.Ítem Acceso Abierto Contribution to the enhancement of the sociocultural competence in French language through receptive skill lessons(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. Facultad de Educación Media. Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras., 2018-06-15) Fernández Torres, Miguel Alejandro; Fernández González, Deyse Matilde; Moré Rojas, Grisel ElinaDuring the present academic year (2017-2018), the author of this paper carried out his practicum as a teacher of French at the “Provincial School of Artistic Education” in Santa Clara. After the implementation of several research methods, it could be corroborated that the main weaknesses present in ninth graders of the Ballet Specialty, have to do with their lack of sociocultural competence in French language. Consequently, the author set as goal to build up a scientific result to contribute to enhance the sociocultural competence in French language in these students. In order to attain the aim proposed, the researcher revised the necessary bibliographical sources so as to back up the scientific problem stated. After a building up process, in which the suggestions given by the discussion group and the experiences recorded on the teacher’s diary were taken into account, the final scientific result that emerged was a system of six receptive skill lessons to contribute to the enhancement of the sociocultural competence in French language in the subjects of research. Various positive transformations were attained in the students ’ sociocultural competence; however, this research is just a contribution to the enhancement of the students’ sociocultural competence in French language.Ítem Acceso Abierto Communicative activities to improve speaking ability in french language in 5th graders at "Benito Juarez" primary school(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2016-06-21) Almaguer León, Daniel; Fernández González, Deyse MatildeThe objective of this major paper is to build up a system of activitiesto improve speaking ability in French language ina5th grade Special Interest Group of students at “Benito Juarez” Elementary School in Santa Clara. This study highlights the importance of teaching French language to expand students´ general culture as well as what can be done to motivate them for the learning of a new language. The students´ strengths and weaknesses were assessed through the administration of different empirical methods such as interview, observation, survey and pedagogical test. The building upprocess of the proposal was carried out during 8weeks following a learning research journal arrangement. The final scientific outcome was proposed,a system of communicative activities to improvespeaking abilityin the French language. Some transformations were achieved in the students´ speaking ability. However, although some difficulties remain,they should continue practicing French as they are highly motivatedtowards its learning.Ítem Acceso Abierto A community project for the teaching of french to young learners in their community(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2016-06-26) Lucena Jiménez, Ivanie; Salvador Jiménez, Bertha GregoriaLearning a foreign language develops the tools for dealing with various types of survival challenges, technical skills, and interpersonal exchanges across and among cultures. This means that it is quite important to learn not only English, but also some other languages as French, which has been regarded as third language of international communication and work. The objective of this paper is to propose a community project for the teaching of the French language to young learners in their community. The current research is carried out through action- research. During the process, qualitative and quantitative procedures are combined and the dialectical unit between the levels of the knowledge is established. This paper provides teachers of French with a useful communicative booklet of exercises that will help them contribute to the teaching of the French language to young learners in their community as well as with a proposal of a procedure to implement community projects with that aim. The main transformations are produced in the school as it has a project for the teaching of French, which is a motivating extracurricular activity; and in the subjects of research, who showed an increasing progress in their knowledge about the French language and culture, in interest, motivation, participation and their performance in the target language.Ítem Acceso Abierto A proposal of excercises to improve students´ pronunciation in 9th graders from José Martí secondary school in Sagua la Grande(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2016-06-26) Águila Ruiz, Dayana; Patterson Peña, Matilde LeonorAfter a long process of research, it was confirmed that students face some pronunciation problems which affect their accuracy when communicating. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to build up a system of exercises to work with students´ pronunciation from group 9.2 at “José Martí” Secondary School.To achieve the objective of this study, it was necessary to use several methods of research.Some empirical methods such as participant observation, pedagogical test, interview to students, teacher`s diary, discussion group and triangulation were used to gather the necessary data about the current situation of the subjects of research, as well as for the constructing process of the proposal.The proposal is the result of a building up process in which the suggestions given by the discussion group and the experiences recorded in the teacher´s diary were taken into account to obtain the final scientific result. It is a system of exercises aimed at enhancing students´ pronunciation.Ítem Acceso Abierto The expansion of vocabulary in english language in 9th grade students from “Antonio Guiteras Holmes” secondary school(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2016-06-26) Ynfiesta González, Orestes; Patterson Peña, Matilde LeonorAfter a long process of research, it was corroborated that one of the main language components which affects ninth graders the most is vocabulary. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to build up a system of communicative activities to expand vocabulary in English language in students from group 9th 4 at “Antonio Guiteras Holmes” Secondary School. To achieve the objective of this study, it was necessary to use several methods of research. Some empirical methods such as participant observation, pedagogical test, interview to students, analysis of students´ outcomes, teacher`s diary, discussion group and triangulation were used to gather the necessary data about the current situation of the subject of research, as well as for the constructing process of the proposal. The proposal is the result of a building up process in which the suggestions given by the discussion group and the experiences recorded in the teacher´s diary were taken into account to obtain the final scientific result. It is a system of communicative activities aimed at attaining the goals of five communicative functions regarding the expansion of vocabulary. It is composed of eleven communicative activities which were designed and/or adapted by the author.Ítem Acceso Abierto The development of the spelling skill in English in class 6th a from José Antonio Echeverría elementary school(Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, 2016-06-26) Betancourt Ordetx, Beatriz; Camacho Delgado, Alfredo;This paper presents a proposal of a system of activities to develop the spelling skill in English in class 6th A from José A. Echeverría elementary school, which offers education to students with sports talents. The proposal has been conceived taking into account the theoretical and methodological bases put together by the author, the results of a learning diagnosis conducted in Class 6th A at this school, as well as the experiences of implementing a preliminary proposal of the activities. This research has been conducted using a variety of theoretical, empirical and statistical methods, which were used in light of Marxist-Leninist philosophy.