Class reflexions

🔥👉 FOURTH WEEK INTERVENTIONS 👈🔥 FROM NOVEMBER 11 TH  TO 16 TH The first intervention of the week was carried out face-to-face on November 11th from 7:35 am to 8:25 am at the University of El Salvador during tear Intermediate English class. To do this, a member of the research team previously contacted the teacher in charge of the group engaged in the investigation, who kindly accepted to give the second half of his class to do the intervention. In face-to-face activities, the students showed more enthusiasm and participation while developing the activities, and it was a precious opportunity to have more interaction with the students of the target sample.  This class was designed according to the teacher in charge's directions, but he gave the opportunity to adapt the class according to what the team is investigating. So, this time the class began with a warm-up, which was a speaking activity and all the students participated giving their opinions and responding the propose...

     After the results of the first week of class delivery to students, and the  observations developed later in the last meeting, a new week of classes was scheduled from October 28th to November 1st. As it was suggested in the previous reflection meeting, the researchers assigned to the classes designed activities with the aim of  involving the students in learning the use of present perfect in written activities. In this week, a new written practice was applied, fill in the blanks.  During this meeting, the researchers concluded the following:        The research team observed that class preparation improved significantly this time, with more time spent researching additional resources and organizing activities to better align with learning objectives. They noted that a brief review of previous material at the beginning could have further supported students in making connections to new content. The classes were logically structured, p...

       As a team, researchers prepared thoroughly for the first sessions, tailoring the pre-test  and a small questionnaire on Wednesday to gauge students' baseline understanding of the present perfect tense. This allowed us to structure Friday’s introductory lesson .       In the present action-research project, the researchers met on October 25 at 5 p.m. through the Google Meet platform to reflect on the first week of classes given to students of group 3 of Intermediate Intensive English I. In this meeting, the researchers first reflected on the participation of the students and how they could motivate them to join classes through more dynamic activities. On the other hand, the researchers analyzed that in order to motivate the students to participate in classes and carry out the practical activities, the students should be presented with an explanatory video about what they will do during the activity. For example, in the first class, the ...