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1. Trabajo Final de Graduación
para optar al grado de:
LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL
INGLÉS
Sustentantes: Richard Zúñiga Mesén
Mario Sánchez Araya

3. World
language
Costa
Rica
reality
Jianling
Peng
Melinda
Roberts
Julie
Mathews,
Aydinli
and
Regina
Van
Horne

4. JUSTIFICATION

5. INSTITUTION

6. PROBLEM

7. GENERAL OBJECTIVE

8. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
To list some factors that influence the learning
process in a multilevel class.
To identify the different English levels students from
seventh grade have.
To compare positive and negative aspects of teaching
English in a class of students from different English
levels.
To establish the characteristics from the CLLA which
are useful to deal with students that have different
English levels.
To propose some techniques to deal with a Multilevel
Class.

9. VARIABLES
Factors
English Levels
Teaching Process
Cooperative L. L. Approach
Strategies

10. METHODOLOGICAL
FRAMEWORK
Method
Type
Subjects
• Empirical and Analytical
• Exploratory and Descriptive
Research
• Seven Grade Students

11. INSTRUMENTS
Questionnaire
Check List
Check List
Survey
Questionnaire
Survey

13. Students who had received English
Lessons in elementary school
24%
YES
76%
NO

14. Amount of years attending
to English Lessons
26%
46%
15%
13%
6 years
5 years
4 years
Less than 4 years

15. Understanding of Familiar Names,
Words and Simple Sentences
16
14
12
10
8
Number of students
6
4
2
0
almost always
sometimes
rarely
never

16. Ability to Interact in Simple Conversations
12
10
8
6
Number of students
4
2
0
always
almost always
sometimes
rarely
never

17. Students in class participation
33%
67%
Sometimes
Rarely

18. DIFFERENCES FOUND IN SEVENTH GRADE
STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE DUE TO USE OF COOPERATIVE
LEARNING
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
Help each other
Feel comfortable advantage from their classmates No answer
Take

19. What Cooperative Learning Is?
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
An approach
A strategy
No answer

20. CLASS ACTIVITIES ARE
INTERESTING
NO DECIDED
6%
AGREE
32%
TOTALLY DISAGREE
6%
TOTALLY AGREE
56%

21. DO STUDENTS FEEL MOTIVATED TO LEARN AND
USE ENGLISH WITH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY
AGREE
29%
TOTALLY AGREE
71%

22. ACTIVITIES, ACTIONS, MATERIALS, OR
STRATEGIES THAT WORK BEST FOR THE
STUDENTS
DIBUJOS
9%
EXPLICACIÓN
9%
JUEGOS-VIDEOS
38%
COMPUTADORA
12%
LIBROS
9%
MÚSICA
23%

23. CONCLUSIONS
 Incomplete
English Learning Process at School
 No Contact with English
 Few Time Dedicated to Study
 Different Levels of Learning
 Non- Effective Students’ Participation
 Teachers’ Insufficient Variation of Activities
 Students like use of Technology
 Teachers lack of knowledge about CLLA

24. RECOMMENDATIONS
 More
English Teachers
 Motivate Students
 Opportunities of English Courses
 Reinforcement Lessons
 Better Lesson Planning
 Guidance to work with Multilevel Groups

25. PROPOSAL
“DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERINSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION
MODEL AND A SET OF TECHNIQUES
TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF THE
MULTILEVEL ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
STUDENTS IN THE TUCURRIQUE
HIGH SCHOOL”

26. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To develop a cooperative inter-institutional
model and a set of techniques that can help to improve the teaching
learning process at the Tucurrique High School.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. To develop a cooperative model where university
students give conversational English lessons to school students in
order to reduce the problem with multilevel classes.
2. To give teachers a set of techniques that help them to deal with a
multilevel English classroom.
3.
To promote the creation of basic English courses for parents.

27. Techniques
UNDERSTAND
STUDENTS
LEVELS (USL)
TEACHING
MIXED
ABILITY
LANGUAGE
(TMAL)
INTERINSTITUTIONAL
COOPERATIVE MODEL
(ICM)

28. BUDGET

$8.500 to $11.000
INITIAL
INVESTMENT

$1000
IMPACT

Academic

Economical

29. DERIVED STUDIES
1. Differences among
public and private
education.
3. The advantage
of include English
for conversation
in primary school
educative
curriculum.
2. Education in
rural areas in
Costa Rica.

30. UNIQUE AND INNOVATIVE
No programs of cooperation among schools and universities regarding the
use of the TCU to give English lessons to elementary school students.