Alfaro Martínez,, Sindy Estefany and Amaya Grimaldy, Lizandra Aracely and Ramírez, Silvia Nohemi (2017) The Effect of Using Audiovisuals in Communicative Activities in English Learners to Activate the Speaking Skill. Case: Saturday English Program for Kids, Year 2016, University of El Salvador. Bachelor thesis, Universidad de El salvador.

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The present undergraduate project has been done to determine the impact of using audiovisuals in communicative activities in the classroom to activate speaking in students of two levels, level I and level III from beginner‟s English students into the English teaching and learning process in a free course. There are two main categories of authentic materials, prints and auditory. The print authentic material is the one that the researcher team used in few times, we use magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, calendars, report cards, etc. the team developed some topics to put into practice those strategies in order to they got the class‟ objectives. Each activity was designed according to the topic. For an instance, many examples gathered from the theory of the audio-visual material were developed in every single class that the team shared with students. One of the activities developed to carry out this research was when the researchers introduced the topic “Wild Animals”. In this case the team used auditory and prints authentic materials because the researchers worked with movies, videos and DVDs, podcasts, taking into consideration an authentic practice. Also, it is important to mention that a “gallery art” about animal was interactive since students had the opportunity to move around the classroom and listen, talk, know and ask interesting information about each animal. The strategies were adapted with the only purpose of students to learn. Another example of this strategies is when the team played a video in a class the video was related to a birthday party, they learned different ways to ask for a dessert and drinks by watching a video, then having the practice with a real party in the classroom using the vocabulary learned from the video.

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