Research Proposal
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The document discusses students' difficulties with speaking English despite having strong writing and reading skills. Teachers focus on writing and reading activities and allow students to speak in their native language in class. As a result, students understand grammar and vocabulary but cannot hold fluent conversations in English. One of the most important skills for improving a language is speaking, as it allows students to effectively communicate messages. For students to fully develop their English skills, they must be pushed to produce precise, coherent messages in conversations to negotiate meaning, similar to the comprehensible input hypothesis.
Research Proposal
- 1. What are the students difficulties when they have to express their ideas in English language? We have noticed students of English language work on writing English very well, they write and understand almost everything of English when it is given in writing form, but when it has to be listening or speaking it starts to be complicated. Teachers do not push the students to talk in English, they just focus on writing and reading activities and when students participate in class they do it in Spanish and teachers allow this behavior. We can find this kind of problem almost in every single place where English classes are taken, even at the university, the students know everything about structures, verbs, and language rules, but they can卒t develop a fluently conversation in English. One of the most important skills to improve a language is the speaking skill; it allows the learner to convey, interpret messages and negotiate meanings and so achieve the main goal of language which is the communicative competence. the meaning of negotiating meaning needs to be extended beyond the usual sense of simply getting ones message across. Simply getting ones message across can and does occur with grammatically deviant forms and sociolinguistically inappropriate language. Negotiating meaning needs to incorporate the notion of being pushed toward the delivery of a message that is not only conveyed, but that is conveyed precisely, coherently, and appropriately. Being pushed in outputis a concept parallel to that of the i +1 of comprehensible input. Indeed, one might call this the comprehensible output hypothesis. (Swain, 1985, 248-9). The aim of the research is highlight the problems students faced when they have to speak English and also improve their motivation to use the language. Harold Arbel叩ez Fl坦rez 051300072009