The responsibility value through the english lessons in fourth graders

Abstract

The current research deals with the students‟ education in responsibility value as an important aspect of teaching around the world and, mostly, in elementary level which is essential to set the proper bases to form better human beings. The aim of the present research is to evaluate the effectiveness of the application of a set of didactic activities to reinforce responsibility in fourth graders from “Remigio Diaz Quintanilla” elementary school. In the study, some scientific methods and instruments from the different levels have been used. From the theoretical level, the historical and logical analysis, the inductive and deductive and the synthetical and analytical analysis were used; from the empirical level, the pedagogical observation guide, the documentary analysis, the survey and the interview, from the mathematical-statistical level, the percentage calculation. These instruments provided the necessary information to determine the theoretical and methodological fundamentals that sustain the work with values in general and, particularly, the education on responsibility and the application of didactic activities to carry out to the sample during the English lessons to reinforce the responsibility value as a necessary part of the educative process and to motivate students to involve them in a conscious participation in school activities