A Research about the Development of the Speaking Skills in Advanced EFL Students with Active Learning Methodologies.

Sara Eunise García Morales

Resumen:

This project purposes to demonstrate that using active learning methodologies and having the students involved in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing in an effective way, it will foster understanding, autonomy, greater involvement and control over their learning and giving them skills to foster lifelong learning in the future. On the other hand, some difficulties which are commonly confronted by teachers and students in speaking activities and the proposed strategies along communicative activities will be discussed further in this paper. The project also pretends to show that using active learning activities, students experience learning by engaging in authentic learning activities, that is, ones that replicate situations or problems they might encounter in real life or in a work situation.