The development of spelling skills in English language in fifth graders
Archivos
Fecha
2013-06
Autores
Correa Restrepo, Laura Marcela
Título de la revista
ISSN de la revista
Título del volumen
Editor
Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas "Félix Varela Morales"
Resumen
Throughout the process of the academic formationof primary school students, English
subjectprovidesthem witha basiclevel of language skills, and also contributes to their
comprehensive education.
Practice has shown that, even those students that have an average development
inlinguistic skills, experiencedifficulties when establishing phoneme-grapheme
relationships and using upper and lower cases, as well as identifying the boundaries of
words when writing. Hence, many experts emphasize on the importance of developing,
as part of the communicative competence, a linguistic competence that includes
knowledge of spelling.
With the use of various theoretical and empirical methods it was found that, in the
current teaching-learning process of writing in Class 5.A from "Ramón Pando Ferrer”
Elementary School, there is a lack of teaching materials and of actions that leadto
improvespelling skills. Consequently, the objective of this research is to build a system
of actions that improve spelling skills in 5.A students from "Ramón Pando Ferrer"
Elementary School.
The system proposes actions to improve the existing material aids, to involve all of the
students´ senses in the learning process, and to make use of games, competitions, and
artistic creation for the sake of developing spelling skills. This system resulted from a
process of implementation of planned actions, reflection on their results, changing what
did not work as expected and keepingwhatworked better. The effectiveness of the
actions presented as a system was verified by assessing the improvements during the
English lessons
Descripción
Palabras clave
Inglés, Enseñanza, Idiomas