sin antes agradecer al Ing. Jerry González quien está administrando el sitio. Rectoría, Universidad Magister. – 2019.

1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER
FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN
CARRERA DE LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
MEMORIA DE SEMINARIO DE GRADUACIÓN PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE LICENCIATURA EN
LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
“A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE ENGLISH LEVEL OF 4th
GRADERS FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AT
CENTRO EDUCATIVO BILINGÜE LLAMA DEL BOSQUE,
DESAMPARADOS.2019”
CAROLINA ALVARADO MORA
TATIANA MARÍN HERNÁNDEZ
ENERO, 2019

2. BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
• Importance of leveling student in English and
decrease the gap between fourth graders from
public and private school.
• Develop an effective program for leveling the
students in English language. Determining
courses goals clarify what would like the
students learn an accomplish.
• Choose the correct contents, which teaching
methods to use, to level students successfully.

3. BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
• It is necessary to include appropriate teaching
tools and teaching methodology that fulfill the
objectives programs.
• The variety of approaches, methods different
learning styles will be the key to fill the gap
between students and reach the proficient of the
language.
• An effective program requires time and
organization in order to improve its development
to achieve in its total the initial desire.

4. PROBLEM STATEMENT
how to identify the gap in English level
between 4th graders from public and private
schools at Centro Educativo Bilingüe Llama
del Bosque, Desamparados, 2019.

5. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To identify the gap between public and
private schools relating English performance
of 4th graders for improving the English level
of the students at Centro Educativo Bilingüe
Llama del Bosque, Desamparados, 2019.

6. VARIABLES
• Gap between English performance of 4th graders
who are coming from public and private school.
• Preference of 4th graders for EFL learning
styles.
• Limitation and scope of teaching English to 4th
graders coming from public school.
• Effective English techniques to achieve meanful
learning in English.

7. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
• INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
• Centro Educativo Bilingüe Llama del
Bosque
• Geographical Location
• English Teaching Program Requirement
• Other Activities

8. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
EDUCATION IN COSTA RICA AND HISTORY OF
ENGLISH TEACHING IN COSTA RICA
• In 1869, Costa Rica made education both free
and mandatory for all its citizens. Since that
time, the country's education system has grown
to include more than four thousand schools.
• Over the last three decades the country has
invested nearly 30% of its national budget in
primary and secondary education.

9. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
EDUCATION IN COSTA RICA AND HISTORY OF
ENGLISH TEACHING IN COSTA RICA
There are public elementary and high
schools in every community.
Public elementary schools consist of six
years of education followed by five to six
years of high school.

10. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
ENGLISH TEACHING IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
VERSUS STRATEGIES- METHODOLOGY
• In Public Schools, the first three years of high school
are dedicated to general education while the
remaining two or three provide students with
specialized training. Upon graduation, students
receive a title in arts or sciences and a Costa Rican
Bachillerato Diploma, which is accredited by the Costa
Rican Ministry of Education.
• Private schools are scattered throughout the country,
some of which offer classes in several languages, and
follow U.S. curriculums.

11. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
METHODOLOGY AND STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH
TEACHING
English teaching methods and providing high quality
English courses is always necessary. The approach to
English language learning utilizes the Communicative
English Teaching Method, a way of teaching that
employs a number of holistic techniques to English
grammar, English vocabulary, spoken English, English
listening, and English reading and writing. This
techniques prioritize the ability to use these English
skills in real-world situations.

12. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
HOW CHILDREN ACQUIRE ENGLISH AS
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Children learn another language naturally and
unconsciously. Children learn without awareness
and can be said to be self-taught when they take a
new language as opposed to adults and adolescents
when they have a great facility to imitate
pronunciation accents without taking into account
rules without reasoning that learning English has
some difficulties what it allows accelerate their
acquisition process

13. TYPES OF RESEARCH
• DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH: Descriptive
research is the procedure used to describe the
characteristics of the phenomenon, subject or
population to be studied.
• EXPLORATORY RESEARCH: The
exploratory research consists in providing
a general reference of the subject, often
unknown, present in the research to be
carried out.

14. APPROACHES OF RESEARCH
Qualitative approach is a method that seeks answers to questions
and involves the collection of evidence.
Quantitative approach emphasize objective measurements and the
statistical, mathematical, or numerical analysis of data collected
through polls, questionnaires, and surveys, or by manipulating pre-
existing statistical data using computational techniques.
Mixed approach The basic premise of this methodology is that such
integration permits a more complete and synergistic utilization of data
than do separate quantitative and qualitative data collection and
analysis.

15. SUBJECTS AND SOURCES OF
INFORMATION
Subjects
The subjects are who the people are objects of study, it is
also known as population or universe.
Sources of information
• Primary sources or primary data is data that is generated
by a researcher.
• A secondary source under investigation is data that the
researcher does not generate.

16. POPULATION AND SAMPLE
Population is the total set of individuals,
objects or measures that have some
common characteristics observable in a
place and at a specific time.
Sample is a sub set that is faithfully
representative of the population.

17. ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATION
• It is observable that students who have
been at Llama del Bosque school since
preschool, have better level than the
others, showing large vocabulary and they
used well the tenses.

18. ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATION
• Students started with a PowerPoint presentation,
as each class has video beam, it is easy to use
audiovisual tools, then students comment about
the video so the relationship between regular
students and first year students is
remarkable due to the participation and quality
of the observations.

19. ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATION
• By observing the dynamics of the groups,
one can notice the constant motivation of
the teacher and the environment itself.
Students move from one class to another
and each class presents activities

20. ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATION
• Communication is the first objective of
teachers who teach a second language.
The students react naturally and interact
with each other using the language. Even
so new students are the ones who
participate the least and those who use
Spanish more regularly

21. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVIEW
The interview was applied to twelve students who
entered the private education system between
2017 and 2018 and who attend levels from third to
sixth grade
It is important to emphasize that the maturity and
personal situations educational experience , reflect
the true meaning of the research, which is to help
these students to level themselves and acquire
knowledge in a meaningful and positive

22. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVIEW
• It is important the role of the teacher as a
motivator and an important guide, which
although an important piece in the
acquisition of knowledge is not the only
factor, the perseverance in the home and
a good attitude of the student, are vital for
the success of teaching and leveling in
any educational area.

23. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVIEW
• According to the teachers, the students in
general enjoy the conversation classes
more. It is justified, since it is a class full of
activities and games, on the other hand
the interesting thing is that the oral part is
the most difficult in the learning of students
from public schools.

24. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVIEW
• Teacher must understand what are the
strengths and weaknesses of the students
to adapt the topics and procedures to their
abilities and that the progress is
significant.

25. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVIEW
• The students are not clear about which are
the techniques that have worked best in
the acquisition of the English language,
but they consider that they have learned a
lot. Students like classes a lot but consider
that they have many tasks and extra class
jobs.

26. CONCLUSIONS
• English performance for 4th grader that
are coming from private school is deficient
,they do not produce structures as the
students who come from the current
school and for consequence , the
development of the language is affected
and it shows a gap between students.

27. CONCLUSIONS
• The feel comfortable with activities that
make the develop listening and speaking
skills that allow them to develop and
strengthen their skills in learning a new
language without counting with their
preferences subjects.

28. CONCLUSIONS
• Taking in consideration that the factor that
can influence in the process of learning a
foreign language, were properly evaluated
by the instruments applied and we
observed an appropriate, pleasant
environment is observed. This allows the
activities to be carried out effectively
achieving the goals set by the teacher.

29. CONCLUSIONS
• Teachers and parents need to be aware
about their students weakness and help
them to identify effective techniques that
work best in their learning process in order
to become more confident and for instance
set up challenges techniques in the use of
the language.

30. COST OF THE STUDY
DESCRIPTION QUANTITY
COST PER
UNIT
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(DOLLARS)
Printing 5 3 800 19 000 41,42
Professional hours
(Colypro)
160 13 602 2 176 416 3.756,54
Transportation 12 40 350 484 200 835,74
Feeding 12 7 000 84 000 144,99

31. RECOMMENDATIONS
According to curriculum accommodations
mix groups by their abilities and level will
give each student to empower to develop
each part that belongs for the team group .
Approach student –center learning
specifically problem base learning case
study and project-based is an excellent
tool where they can develop their
knowledge in the different subjects.

32. RECOMMENDATIONS
• Most of the students with low ability in
group learning often able to improve and
develop team skills after a short period of
time when they were given the task that
empower them to communicative, to
respect ,and also become a good team
member.

33. RECOMMENDATIONS
• The implementation of small projects in
the tutorial classes will develop and
accelerate their own learning styles, no
matter what the subjects is.

34. RECOMMENDATIONS
• To implement a proper remedial plan
through tutorial that review topics of
previous course in order to wide their
knowledge incorporating techniques and
strategies according to their abilities and
preference.

35. RECOMMENDATIONS
• The educational leader must help students
to identify, recognize and teach them how
to apply their appropriate techniques
according to their learning styles that best
fit and for instance make their learning
process pleasant and efficient in their
learning process.

36. PROPOSAL OF AN ADAPTATION OF
THE REGULAR ENGLISH PLAN FOR
4TH GRADERS FOR STUDENTS
WITH LOW ENGLISH
PERFORMANCE

37. GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE
PROPOSAL
To create an alternative strategy to adapt the
objectives for the annual plan for the fourth
grade in Centro Bilingüe Educativo Llama
del Bosque, 2019

38. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To develop a set of activities that suit students
with little or no previous knowledge in the
English language.
• To use effective techniques for the leveling of
students in the area of English.
• To bring strategies to teachers and students to
give continuity to language objectives in a
meaningful way.

39. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSAL
The Proposal begins by analyzing the
teaching experiences on the conditions in
which a student is received from public
schools and have done to face the
unevenness that this represents.

40. COMPREHENSION OF THE
ENVIRONMENT IN WHERE STUDENTS
WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS ARE
INVOLVED
The first part of the development of the
project is the observation of the educational
context and how the lessons are developed.

41. SELECTING THE TOPICS FOR THE
MANUAL
The second part of the project is developed
starting from the grammatical themes of the
annual plan and developing objectives that
adapt to the possibilities of knowledge of the
students.
A practical approach to the objectives is
made by differentiating the capacities to
produce and recognize, and trying to unify
objectives for the end of the course.

42. DESIGN OF STRATEGIES FOR
ADAPTING THE REGULAR MANUAL FOR
THE NEW POPULATION
With the established objectives, we proceed to
establish the practices focused on the different
objectives that seek to establish the scope of the
objectives that can be used in all the students.
Practices are divided into low and high difficulty
according to the objectives and are applied with a
monthly plan within an annual plan.

43. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MANUAL
The Plan produced is annual and contains different
objectives for students who do not have the
required knowledge in the area of English,
however the subject and the development of the
lesson is the same and all students participate in
the activities in the same way.

44. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MANUAL
The plan has many annexes of the same subject
but with different difficulties, this in order to level
the students without the others falling back and
being able to join the subject successfully.
The document has ideas and teaching methods
suitable to face the challenge of the teacher to
level a student in an advanced classroom.

45. COST OF THE PROPOSAL
DESCRIPTION QUANTITY
COST PER
UNIT
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(DOLLARS)
Printing 5 1 200 6 000 10 614.00
Pasty 5 2 000 10 000 17.79
Professional hours
(Colypro)
16 13 602 217 641 387.26
Transportation 2 25 500 51 000 90.75
Feeding 2 8 000 16 000 28.47

46. SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTH
It is very useful both for teachers and for students,
since it facilitates meaningful learning and helps to
guide the educational process in an effective way,
also presents activities that allow the participation
of all students regardless of the level of language
they present.

47. SWOT ANALYSIS
WEAKNESSES
The attitude, the bad disposition and the fear of the
students can be mentioned as a weakness that
usually appears in students who unknowingly face
a bilingual class.
There is no guarantee that the program will be
beneficial for all students, nor that all teachers can
handle flexibility in the same way, since many
factors can affect the process.

48. SWOT ANALYSIS
OPPORTUNITIES
The main opportunity of this project is to provide
the opportunity for other teachers to modify it if
they wish to be applied in other subjects, grades or
objectives, taking into account the number of
bilingual centers in Costa Rica.
It also provides the opportunity to expand the plan
to adapt it according to the level and learning
capacity of the students, which creates the
possibility of creating different plans for different
levels.

49. SWOT ANALYSIS
THREATS
The disposition of the students and the teacher is
a factor that must be taken into account.
Most times the education focuses on the attitudes
of the student, but it is not always the student that
of the bad attitude, many times the teachers refuse
to accept students that generate educational
challenges and, this marks a precedent in the
educational trait and limits the success in the
acquisition of language.

50. IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSAL
• It can be determined that this proposal can be a
beneficial tool for all the teachers who work in
private educational centers and who receive
students from public educational centers that
come to be leveled from very poor bases.
• This can be effective for students to gain
confidence and improve day by day with
adequate guidance to meet the educational
needs of any student.

51. OTHER STUDIES DERIVED
• English language improvement plan for
indigenous students of magister university
• Leveling plan for foreign students with low
academic level