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1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER
Graduation Memoir Seminar to get the Licenciatura in English Teaching
Improving Reading in Tenth Grade Students
At
Desamparados Night High School
Presented by:
Georgina Bonilla Pérez
María Elena Rojas Pomarez
Tutor: Lawrence Vega Miranda
2009

2. Introduction
 Disadvantages
 Desamparados Night High School
 Sample
 Suggestions

3. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
 Factors that interfere in the process of
reading and strategies to improve the skill.

4. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 Factors that students face through the process
of learning
 Weaknesses in the present program of the
MEP
 Helpful strategies

5. METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
 Type of investigation
 Population
 Sample (60 students of tenth grade and four
English teachers)

6. GATHERING OF THE INFORMATION
INSTRUMENTS

Students and teachers questionnaire

Class observation

Analysis of the MEP English Program

Administration information

7. VARIABLES

Academic shortcomings

Motivation

Social problems

Personal problems

8. Data Analysis

9. 5. How do you think the English you receive is?
8 students = 8%
25 students = 42%
22 students = 37%
5 students = 13%

10. 7. Which of the following percentages in the development in
English readings do you think get adapted to you?
3 students = 5%
13 students = 22%
35 students = 58%
9 students = 15%

11. 8. Which of the following issues in English reading do you think
you fail the most?
30 students = 50%
12 students = 20%
18 students = 30%

12. 9. Do you consider that the chosen English readings are
interesting?
18 students = 30%
3 students = 5%
9 students = 15%
30 students = 50%

13. According to the teachers answers these are the
results:

14. 2. In which of the following skills do you consider the students
perform the best?
Graphic No. 2
25%
0%
a. Grammar
b. Listening
50%
c. Oral
d. Reading
25%
2 teachers = 50%
1 teacher = 25%
1 teacher = 25%

15. 3. According to the Ministry English Education Program the
English the students receive is:
Graphic No. 3
25%
0%
a. Very Good
b. Good
50%
c. Regular
d. Poor
25%
2 teachers = 50%
1 teacher = 25%
1 teacher = 25%

16. 5. Which of the following percentages in the development in
English reading do you think get adapted to your students?
Graphic No.5
25%
0%
a. One hundred %
b. Eighty %
c. Fifty %
d. Tw enty %
75%
3 teachers = 75%
1 teacher = 25%

17. 6. Which of the following issues in English reading do
you think the students fail the most?
Graphic No.6
0%
a. Vocabulary
b. Idiomatic expressions
100%
4 teachers = 100%
c. Social and Cultural
contents

18. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

Low knowledge in English

No weakness in the MEP Program

Lack of motivation

No support by the Institution

19. Recommendations
 Work on intrinsic motivation
 Work as a department
 Activities to improve vocabulary
 Workshops