The document summarizes the English proficiency levels of 77 students ages 5-6 at Logos Preschool based on pre-tests in listening, reading, writing, and speaking. It finds that most students are at a beginning level. It then discusses early childhood development principles and proposes reinforcing English use outside the classroom with concrete, meaningful activities to help students improve.

1. Patricia Caamaño
Denisse Cordero
Natalia Guerrero
Daniela Rohde

2. Background
Logos Preschool
5 - 6 years old children
first basic A-B-C-D
To know in which level
(beginning/intermediate/
advanced)are students
and apply our English
To improve their
program according to
knowledge
their neccesities .
estimulating their
skills.

3. Logos Pre-school
•First Basic A: 20 students.
•First Basic B: 20 students.
•First Basic C: 19 students.
.
•First Basic D: 18 students
•Total: 77 students.

5. English Areas
Listening Reading Writing Speaking
Students identify
Students name
letters and objects or images,
Students
numbers, and Students write answer questions
demonstrate about objects,
read isolated letters, numbers
comprehension describe the use of
letters and , and simple
of simple nouns the objects and
simple words words discuss what is
and adjectives.
aloud. happening in a
picture

6. Pre-test results First Basic “A”
LISTENING WRITING
Advanced Intermediate Beginning
Advanced Intermediate Beginning
0% 0%
15%
50% 50%
85%

7. Pre-test results First Basic “A”
READING SPEAKING
Advanced Intermediate Beginning Advanced Intermediate Beginning
5%
10%
35% 33%
60%
57%

8. Pre-test results First Basic “A”
1"A" TOTAL SCORE LEVEL
Advanced Intermediate Beginning
0%
14%
86%

18. Early Childhood
Development
According to Hernández (2008)
Principles of Educational Context
The boys and girls:
• Learn through social interact between
other children and adults.
• They build their knowledge.
• Learn playing.
• Attention to their differences.

19. Gross Motor Skills
Movement is basic
Psychic and motor
in children
skills interaction.
development.

20. Autonomy
(Guia Portage)
Solve problems
by themselves
Social process
(construction of
knowledge)
Active role on
learning
process

21. Listening and
speaking
• Sing songs, tell
rhymes, dramatize including
gestures (feelings) and body
movements
• Describe behaviors, actions or
functions
• Describe pictures
• Retell a story in sequence
• Understand and answer simple
questions.

22. Reading
Students are able to:
• Recognize some letters to decode some simple;
phonetic words
• Identify and recognize from 1 to 3.

23. Writing
Students are able to:
• write some isolated letters and
numbers .
• Write numbers from 1 to 3.
• Copy simple words from the board.

24. Strategies
• Fine motor skills
• Gross motor skills
• Comprehension
• Listening
• Production

25. Proposal
• Reinforce the importance of using English
language at lunch
time, recess, bathroom, swimming pool
class.
• Familiarize children with the language.
• Elaborate more works out of the classroom.
• Work with concrete and real material.
• Make more activities in which the children
can explore (meaningful activities).