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1. MAGISTER UNIVERSITY
“The Use of Ludic Activities to
Encourage English Learning at the
High School Level”
Bach. Ma.del Carmen Díaz M.
Bach. Vivian Martínez B.

2. GENERAL ASPECTS
• The growth of the world has increased the
society demands.
• Costa Rican educative system is living a crisis.
• The inclusion of English as a second language
demands an effective and successful process.
• Teachers’ motivation towards students’ needs.

3. OBJECTIVE
• To promote students’ interest and
participation through the use of
ludic activities in English
Teaching.

4. ¨LUDIC ACTIVITIES¨
Refers to :
¨Dynamic strategies that promote
active learning involving students in
doing things out of the routine and
thinking about what they are doing¨

5. BENEFITS OF LUDIC ACTIVITIES
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Affective
Cognitive
Class dynamics
Adaptability
The use of games in class time.
Importance of fun and relaxing atmosphere.

6. TYPE OF INVESTIGATION
• It is focused on a qualitative research.
• The purpose :
To collect information
and data about the results of the
research for the improvement of the
English teaching methodologies.

7. VARIABLES
• Lack of ludic activities in English
teaching.
• Teachers’ academic formation and
teaching experience.
• Effectiveness of the English language
from high school.

8. Graphic Analysis of Students
Graphic #4: Activities that I like in the English class.
5%
Tejar, El Guarco, Cartago.
November 2010.
11%
35%
49%
Playing
Talking
Listening
Reading

9. Graphic #8: What kind of activities does your teacher use?
Tejar, El Guarco, Cartago.
3.33%
November, 2010.
0%
6.66%
10%
5%
18.33%
16.66%
Visual aids
Readings
Games
Books
Photocopies
Dialogues
Role plays
Expositions
80%

10. Graphic #9: I suggest to the teacher...
Tejar, El Guarco, Cartago.
10%
November 2010.
13.33%
Less use of the
board
Speak more in
English
Use more visual
aids
61.66%
15% Not use only book
Apply more dynamic
activities
13.33%

11. Graphic Analysis of Teachers
Graphic #4: In your opinion, what is the biggest difficulty (if any) to teach it?
Tejar, El Guarco, Cartago.
November 2010.
30%
40%
Time
Syllabus
Sources
10%
Students
interest
Amount of
students
40%
30%

12. Graphic #6: Before taking part in this research, had you ever used any ludic
activities in your lessons?
Tejar, El Guarco, Cartago.
November 2010.
0%
20%
Always
Sometimes
Almost never
80%

13. Graphic # 9: Which positive aspects provoke in students learning?
Tejar, El Guarco, Cartago.
November 2010.
20%
Better scores
40%
Successful learning
30%
Catch students
attention
40%
Establish a closed and
nice relationship
between teacherstudent

14. CONCLUSIONS ABOUT STUDENTS’ SURVEYS
• For question number three “Activities that I like
in the English class”, the majority of the
students assert about two activities; talking and
listening.
• For question number eight ““What kind of
activities does your teacher use?”, it is clear
from the students answer, the use of the
traditional material.

15. • For question number nine “I suggest to the
teacher to…”, certainly it is concluded that the
students suggest to the teachers “apply more
dynamic activities”.

16. RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT STUDENTS’ SURVEYS
• For question number three“Activities that I like
in the English class”, as teachers it is essential
to realize what kind of activities students like.
• For question number seven “Your teacher uses
activities during the English class…” facing
the consideration of the students who qualify the
activities “boring”, it is recommended the use of
different activities, techniques and strategies.

17. • For question number ten ¨Ludic activities
contribute to motivate and improve academic
performance and learning in the second
Language Acquisition because¨ , students
think about the benefits of the ludic activities for
a better academic performance in the acquisition
of a second language.

18. CONCLUSIONS ABOUT TEACHERS’ SURVEYS
• For question number four ¨ In your
opinion, what is the biggest difficulty
(if
any) to teach it?¨, it is concluded that there is a
variety of troubles when teaching English.
• For question number six ¨ Before taking part in
this research, had you ever used any ludic
activities in your lessons?¨, it is important to
mention that most of the teachers apply the use
of playful activities sometimes.

19. • For question number nine ¨ Which
positive aspects do ludic activities
provoke in students learning?¨, it is
concluded that teachers consider ludic
activities positive aspects which facilitate
the students’ learning process.

20. RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT TEACHERS’ SURVEYS
• For question number four ¨ In your
opinion, what is the biggest difficulty (if any)
to teach it? ¨, it is suggested to The MEP to think
on certain changes to improve English teaching.
• For question number six ¨ Before taking part in
this research, had you ever used any ludic
activities in your lessons?¨, it is recommended
for teachers to look and search for new
techniques.

21. • For question number nine ¨ Which positive
aspects do ludic activities provoke in
students learning?¨, it is suggested that the
educative institutions focus on the importance of
adopting strategies which improve the teaching
quality.
• About the teachers’ formation it is suggested to
the universities which have the challenge to
prepare English teachers to improve the
programs in two important aspects.

22. PROPOSAL
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
• To contribute in the improvement of
the English teaching lessons with
ludic activities.

23. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To establish the importance of using ludic activities
in English teaching for a successful learning.
• To suggest some ludic strategies, techniques and
activities for developing the four skills in English
teaching.
• To appoint some recommendations in order to get
better results when playful activities are used.

24. PURPOSE
To make conscious about the need of using ludic
activities to get an effective learning when
teaching English for high school students:
• Be proficient in the process of teaching English.
• The promotion of a favorable environment of learning.
• To improve students’ skills without been bored.

25. EXAMPLES

26. •
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Telephone
Running dictation
Listen to a song
Listen a story
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•
Listening
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•
Write now!
Run and Write
Write a dairy
Describe pictures
Speaking
Writing
The Hot Seat
Spin the coin
Role play
Speeches
Reading
• Sentence Jumble
• Janken Slap
• News Papers and
magazines
• Free readings

27. ¨In every real man a child is hidden
that wants to play¨
Friedrich Nietzsche
(Philosopher, poet)