Leidy J. Ramirez Gaitan

HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH VOCABULARY USING IMAGES TO ILLITERATE STUDENTS IN THE THIRD?

OBJETIVOS

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To design and applying a strategy focused on using visual Aids to teach vocabulary in English to illiterate people at Jose Maria Cordoba School.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

To design and applying a survey to characterize the adult population in the third grade at Jose Maria Cordoba.To design specific pictures to teach vocabulary in English to illiterate people in the third grade in elementary school at Jose Maria Cordoba School.To identify students’ writing skill using images as a strategy for learning English as a foreign language.

SIGUIENTE

Institutional Context identification

Principes

Self esteem, respect for the difference, autonomy with responsibility, think

before speak and act, belonging sense, honesty, generosity, commitment,

obedience.

Mission  The Jose Maria Cordoba School offers formal education to child, teenagers and adults in elementary, basic and media-high. The institution offers

axiological, cognitive, technological, ludic and esthetic process and

experience for developing student’s potential.

Vision The Jose Maria Cordoba School will be recognized by the dynamism and the ability to adaptation required by the society. This institution will promote the respect by the human being and the environment. The institution will contribute to training of citizen with ethical, competent principles useful for the communication, participation social and political and the job.

Objectives

• To reinforce in people the self esteem, using respectful and the responsibility values.

• To form a culture that identifies the institution members from sense of belonging, the respect about other and the nature.

• To encourage the democracy and the active participation of the community in the educative process.

• To develop activities that stimulate the creativity, the research, the technological develop the free time and the human relationship.

• To develop the basic competitions (communicatory, mathematics, scientific) belonging to citizen.

Diagnostic

We applied a first diagnostic test I, which students had to associate the correct image with the correct name in English. Checking the answers we could identify that this population has difficulties to read and writing because some of them are illiterate people in their mother tongue, but then we applied a second diagnostic test in that they had to identify the correct image about place of the city with the correct profession, in that activity they did not have to write and the result was successful. In that diagnostic they showed that they have enough disadvantage about English vocabulary meaningful.

In this first diagnostic we evaluate over ten, like the maximum score, where four students had the lowest score that was 0,1 while just two students got 0,7 and the others seven student obtained 0,3 it means that most of the students had problems in writing and reading, but for the final diagnostic we can appreciate how the students increase their English level respect to their writing and reading skills, like shows the following picture:

Seven students had 0,8, three students obtained 0,7 and the rest of the students, equivalently to three students had the lowest score that was 0,5 this final diagnostic means that most of the student increase their communicative skills, in this final all the students could read and understanding the English meaning from five professions images at less.