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1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGÍSTER
FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN
CARRERA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
TESIS DE GRADO PARA OPTAR POR LA CATEGORÍA DE
LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
“GAMES IN ENGLISH TEACHING AT ELEMENTARY LEVELS”
KARLA DANIELA BORBÓN BARRANTES
SONIA ISABEL SERRANO HERNÁNDEZ
ENERO, 2011

2.  Introduction
 Background
 Justification
 Objetives

3. General Objectives
• To describe the way games can serve in the process of teaching
English
• To propose appropriate games to use in English language.

4. Specific Objectives
•
To identify different approaches in which games take an important role
•
To analyze the role of games in English teaching
•
To identify the interests of the students in games during the process of
learning English
•
To demonstrate the Importance of games in the first cycle in elementary
classes
•
To demonstrate the advantages of games in the process of learning
English

5. Type of
Investigation
Sources of
Information
Variables
Investigation
Description of
Elementary
Technical
School
Instruments
Description
Techniques to
Obtain the
Data

6. Sources of Information:
 Primary
 Secondary

7. Elementary School Description
 Location
 Background
 Facilities
 Population and Sample

8. Techniques to Obtain the Data
 Students Questionnaire
 Teacher s Interview
 Teacher s Observation

9. Description of the Technical Instruments
 Students First Cycle Survey
 English Teacher Interview
 English Teacher Observation

11. 5.How often your teacher uses games in the class?
Always
Sometimes
Never
0
6
16
Source: Borbón & Serrano“Games in English Teaching at Elementary Levels”

13. 7.Do you like to participate during games?
Always
Sometimes
Never
4
12
6
Source: Borbón & Serrano“Games in English Teaching at Elementary Levels”

15. 8.Do you understand better the topics using games?
Always
Sometimes
Never
4
12
6
Source: Borbón & Serrano“Games in English Teaching at Elementary Levels”

16. Variables
Concepts and Definitions
 Approaches
 Students Interest in Games
 Games

17. Conclusions
• By playing different games students develop different skills such as:
individual and group work, social skills tolerance, respect and wise
non verbal communication deeper knowledge among students
cooperation and participation. Relevant for second language
learning.
• Understanding that participation is a relevant point in the use of
games, it is showed that the majority of the students like to
participate.
• In the first cycle the topics from the syllabus are easy to relate with
different games, and it is clear that students have a better
understanding of these topics by using games. Because of some
factors such as age, and attention spans.

18. Recommendations
Teachers should be aware of the importance to promote English as
a fun subject instead of make it look as a tedious and even boring
subject for most of the students.
Teachers should take into consideration the likes and dislikes of the
students in order to apply games that will call students
attention, while they are learning. By taking into account students
opinion the teacher will make students feel important during the
process.
The teacher should notice the benefits of using games regularly in
the process of teaching. Games constitute a break from the
classroom routine, allowing them to participate and get engaged in a
communicative activity which main purpose is to give them the
opportunity to use the target language.

19. Proposal
 Objetives
 Introduction
 Description of the Proposal
 Samples

20. Samples from the proposal
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