The development of the oral expression skills in english as a foreign language in sixth graders

Abstract

Communication in a foreign language has great social, educational and practical importance. It is a fundamental objective in the National Education System in Cuba. This research studies oral skills of the English Language through the application of teaching activities with the use of teaching resources in sixth graders, where the problem related to the deficiencies in: the development of the oral skills, lack of vocabulary about the units of the program, easily distracted, errors in pronunciation of the sounds in initial and final positions, low use of teaching resources are taken into consideration. The aim of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of the application of the teaching activities with the use of teaching resources to develop the oral skills of the sixth-grade students at ―Remigio Díaz Quintanilla‖ Elementary School in Sancti Spíritus. In the paper, educational research methods have been used: historical-logical; analysis and synthesis; induction-deduction; scientific observation, interview, pedagogical test, survey, documentary analysis and percentage analysis. A set of teaching activities with the use of teaching resources to develop the oral skills is applied.