Report of the innovation learning unit for English teaching and learning process in primary school: “Lets clean my school”

Abstract

Within the framework of the Project of Innovation in the Teaching of Oral Interaction of Non-native Languages of the UNAE (National University of Education of Ecuador), a pilot experience is designed, implemented and evaluated by a pedagogical pair of 6th cycle students in pre-professional teaching practices for the teaching of ELE in general basic education.

This experience, with a participatory action research approach, is designed according to the project's methodological lines, which mainly highlight the importance oral language and strategic competence in the process of learning, through task-based and the oral approach; with activities that promote peer interaction for the development of communication skills. These activities are framed in the institutional principles of Good Living (Constitutional ‘Buen Vivir’), that guide  the pedagogical model of UNAE.

The didactic sequence is implemented in the educational institution of basic education Daniel Córdova Toral: a rural institution of the parish of Zhullín, that at the time of the practices of the students did not have a teacher specialized in the subject of English.