My Research Project.

We find that teaching the English language more like a learning process, is a style of life that today, we must assume it as a challenge, knowing, mastering and interacting is the project we want to achieve and not just a single sector, to a single group of people or students, is also to provide education to an entire population including illiterate people.

The education in Colombia is one of the principal motivations that as person we need and is the way for reach goals, and be professional and have an establish live. We know that this education includes learn a new language that in this case is English as a second language and day a day all the institution privade and public keeping working in reach an excellent level.

But in Colombia we have a considerable percentage of illiterate student that need reach the dream to study and be part of Colombia´s education.

So, next you will see the purpose of teaching the English language and research on techniques or methods that can help us teach English as a second language to illiterate students, who also want and have the right to have a second language.

Task 1. Identifying Problem.

Step 1. Problem:

Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Illiterate Adult in Colombia. 

Step 2.  Justify:

According as my experience as a teacher in vulnerable population I have adults student who never have studied in a school, that`s means that they don`t know to write and neither know to read. So taking in count that problem its necessary to get new plan lesson, strategies, and didactic method, that help them to undersant and make easy learning English as a second language. 

In Colombia there are 1.857.000 Illiterate in the year 2017, which permit to analysis the importance about teaching English and have a pedogical structure to apply, its important to highlight that they want to learn and in this procces in necessary to be aligned with the Spanish board, though sometime is difficult because we have to be carefull in don`t create confuse and teach the most basic things.  

Spet 3. Q&A 

1. What is educational research?

Education research are methods, strategies, and solution for education, which permit to advance in the teaching process and learning process.

2.  What is the relation between educational research and the course Research

Project?

The relation is that both include researching, studying, and analyzing make solution about education.

3.  How can educational research and the course Research Project help you in your

professional field?

As I mention in the last answer educational research and research project help me desing a project, develop a project, and justify a problem, delimit problems and how to structure a final project with their respective investigations.

4.  Which are the ECEDU research lines?

• argumentation pedagogy and learning
• Education and human development
• Ethnoeducation, culture and communication
• Bilingualism in distance education mediated by technologies
• Childhoods, education and diversity
• Visibility, knowledge management and education:
• Philosophy and education line
• History and prospects of open and distance education
• Intercultural and inclusive education
• Factors associated with the quality of distance education
• Pedagogy, didactics and curriculum line
• Mediated pedagogies

5. Why do you need to know the ECEDU research lines?

It`s important to know it, because expand the research project and give us different alternative in which we can select and study; so the idea is to increase the investigation focus in the learning and teaching process taking in count that as future teacher we need to develop and apply. 

6. What are other grade alternatives the university offers you besides the research

project?

• Applied Project
• Investigation project
• Monograph
• Deepening diploma
• for grade
• Graduate credits
• Internship.

7.  Which degree alternative would you choose and why?

I would like to choose a deepening diploma, because increase my knowledge and give me experience as student and professional and it`s add to my final degree, but I want to make the internship too. So both give me knowledge and experience. 

Introduction 

Education in Colombia is one of the principal motivations that as a person we need and is the way to reach goals, and be professional, and have an established life.

We know that this education includes learning a new language that is English as a second language and day a day all the institution's private and public keeping working in reach an excellent level.  

But in Colombia, we have a considerable percentage of illiterate students that needs to reach the dream to study and be part of Colombia`s Education.

Theorical Framework

The process learning of English as a second language is one of the most important process in which strategies have been created for pedagogical process that help at the education to continue increase, The cognitive process in fundamental for understand how to carry this learning process and how to analyses the different alternative for teaching and learning.

Different methods have permit to stablish strategies for facilities the learning process, method that speak and explain the implementation the tools for learn English, but what is the method or the strategies that can help to teach English in illiterate students?  

Those are some of methods that have been teaching during the years and practice during the education for example:  Direct Method, Audio lingual Method, Cognitive approach to academic language learning, etc. 

All that methods have helped in all our process and each one of this have good result for example: 

1. Communicative language teaching

¨Richard & Rodgers (1986:72) point out that although CLT does not subscribe to any specific theory of language learning the practices associated with it imply several underlying theoretical principals that they describe as follows: 

1. 1. the communication principle: Activities that involve real communication promote learning 
   2. the task principle: Activities in which language is used for carrying out meaningful task promote learning
   3. The meaningfulness principle: Language that is meaningful to the learner supports the learning process (Fernando Rubio) 

     2.  Audio lingual Method. 

¨ The audio-lingual method or audio-lingual method had its heyday during World War II. It is based mainly on the acquisition of a language through repetition, emphasizing oral expression and pronunciation. The teacher focuses on speaking in English (or the language to be taught) while the students acquire speech patterns through repetition and analysis of oral language.

The characteristics of this method are:

• Habit formation through repetition.
• Great importance is given to the development of oral expression and comprehension before writing.
• The mother tongue is not used, it is always spoken in the language that is intended to be taught.
• Grammar is taught indirectly, with students learning it by listening.
• Use positive reinforcement to form good habits.¨. (UNIR)

Both methods  

Statement of the Problem

Teaching English as foreign language is a challenge, because the need to use a good method or strategies for develop the class, involve that as a educator transmit an implement good methods, currently there are a lot of methods that help that process but for this project select a specific method or strategies will be the purpose, because as I mention before, the problem that I have is to find the pedagogical method for teaching English to illiterate students. 

We saw in the framework the different method that there are, and I think that searching or comparing and applying the correct method for help that kid of students, we will have the answer and the correct process. 

We know that teaching English to not illiterate student, its easy because remember that they already know a modern language, that means that there are a previous knowledge and the process to interact and speak and practice is going to be evidence and the time to learn is not long.  

But a illiterate students, have another process, in which we have to be connect at same time with their native language, So the process to learn English its going to be slow and not all the teaching method of English works.

Research objectives 

1. To stablish the method and the strategies that is going to apply in the process to teaching English to illiterate students, helping to speed up the process and the same time help in their native language.  

Significance of the Study 

Teaching English for illiterate students and have the correct method and strategies, is a research that permit to study all the process that it entails and that for years has tried to advance and improve the teaching process in general.  

Looking all the investigations, all the influence that methods have had,  its make that now teaching English have guide and horizontal process, but trying to teaching English to illiterate students is different, the process change,  the cognitive skills is difficult,  because the students have to study a mother tongue and at the same time learn a new language, of course that process of learning its going to be different and have challenge as a student and teacher.  Its for that reason the need to find and integrate a good method that help and better this learning process. 

For me this project make think that not all is writing, that as educator and researcher still need go deeper and think about all the teaching possibilities and kind of students. 

Step 2: Part Two:  Literature Review

According to my statement problem that is find a pedagogical method for teaching English to illiterate students, I found some factor that don’t permit to students learn English, also some articles that spoke about method that help that process.

This document that is going to mention spoke about a real fact.

¨ There are emotional factors considered as obstacles that are described and studied in this investigative work. Factors that one way or another they show greater influence in the English learning process as a foreign language. (Sanchez, 2016)

This documents show us another reality that our students live when facing a new language, and it is the emotional and many times we put this fact aside and we only focus on finding good methods for learning.

Another article that allows us to investigate and take as a reference is about strategies that exist to be able to apply them in our teaching.

¨6 Essential Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

1. cultivate relationships and be culturally responsive, teach language skills across the curriculum, emphasize productive language, speak slowly—and increase your wait time

. differentiate—and use multiple modalities, incorporate students’ native languages—and don’t be afraid of technology¨ (Kaplan, 2019)

Another document that was essential for my investigation was the different teaching methods.

¨The direct method, The Grammar Translation Method, The Audio lingual Method, The Structural Approach, Suggestopedia, Total Physical Response, Communicative Languange Teaching.¨ (Elizabeth, 2004)

All these resources have allowed me to establish a point of reference for the teaching of the English language in illiterate students, reaching an offer that all the procedures are different and each one is linked to the development and understanding of learning.

Today we can see that all institutions focus on English in a transversal way, this means that the more contact with English we can have greater results.

However, there is still no document or project related to the development of learning in only illiterate students, but this leads us to the conclusion of continuing to investigate the teaching and learning processes of the English language.

Previous Studies:

The following studies related to the teaching of a second language to illiterate people, gave points of reference throughout the teaching process, from inclusion to the management of new strategies and ways of teaching.

The following quote mentions a story that develops through the need for communication:

Robinson Crusoe's loneliness seemed to end the day he found another human being on his island. She couldn't believe that her dreams were finally coming true, having someone to share her hardships with, to talk to. And although it was clear from the first moment that it was not going to be easy to understand each other, since they did not speak the same language, he continued to feel grateful for this finding. Robinson, as a good castaway and civilized man, set about solving this small difficulty by making the newcomer learn his language: «... I let him know that his name was Friday, which was the day I saved his life (...) also I taught him to say Master , and then I let him know that this was my name ”(1974: 139)

The objective of this research was to show two important points within development, the literacy process and the communication process.

In the process of literacy they do it through the following methods.

Pure synthetic method . It is one of the oldest that have been used in the learning of literacy. It is applied following a very precise sequence:

Analytical study, first, of the vowels and then of the consonants.

Reading simple texts.

This sequence is long and it takes the learner a long time to complete a comprehensive reading. For this reason, learning with this type of method constitutes a long and abstract process that can be tedious and even frustrating when the previously prescribed results are not achieved 7 . However, it is very attractive to many educators, given the facility it presents to develop systematic schedules.

Synthetic method mitigated . In pure synthetic the apprentice was presented with each letter and forced to pronounce it correctly: m ... eme. In this way, no relationship was established between the graphemic and phonemic planes, so the modifications to this method were oriented towards syllabic or phonetic analysis. In the first, the process begins with the study of the syllable and its possible combinations to form words, ending with the synthetic reconstruction of these in sentences. A didactic resource, widely used in this proposal, was the photosyllabic deck.

Pure analytical method . Also known as Decroly global or natural method. In it, a process is proposed that starts from the study of the sentence, its decomposition into words, to analyze the simple elements in these and to be able to reconstruct them through synthesis. To justify this procedure, psychological principles such as interest, globalization and visual perception are used 8 . It is understood that the student can only feel interest in what he perceives as a need 9and that, in the case of reading, is related to the desire to communicate with others. The problem has been that not all educators have adopted the same strategies to link and develop this communicative need of the participants. On many occasions, the starting phrase has been understood as a mere pretext for subsequent work, ceasing to be meaningful and close to the student's experience. The pedagogical principles that inspire the method assume that the texts that are brought into the classroom start from the group's own productions and are organized around centers of interest according to group characteristics. (GARCÍA)

So this work, let me see a real interpretation and what the most important is in teach to illiterate students as a conclusion:

Talking about literacy as an activity forces us to specify its objectives based on the characteristics and needs of the participants. If we think of the illiterate as the person who cannot read or write, or if we define literacy as the teaching of the basic rudiments of reading and writing, we will be being very partial and imprecise. We are not defining what we understand by knowing how to read and write, nor what is the degree of effectiveness that allows us to consider such knowledge acquired. Similarly, we do not explain how these resources are to be used; nor what type of texts are going to be read or written (GARCÍA)

Metodology. 

During my research, one of the methodologies that I applied was the quantitative method to be able to carry out surveys and have more information about the teaching of the English language in illiterate students, prior to this, I had a lot of information through books, documents, articles that talked about it. project, which helped me a lot to be able to develop and complement the project objectives.

Let us remember that the quantitative methodology is

In the process of literacy they do it through the following methods

In other words, a quantitative method is one that uses numerical values ​​to study a phenomenon. As a consequence, he obtains conclusions that can be expressed mathematically. ... It is also known as the empirical-analytical method and as the positivist method . (Concept, s.f.)

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1. Hypothesis of your research

If the teaching methods for teaching English have been effective for learning, can it be said that these methods can also be used for illiterate students?

         Result of the Project Survey. 

The results in general have 80% ignorance regarding the teaching of the English language to illiterate students, showing ignorance of techniques and methods that can be implemented for the development and teaching process, however, most of the answers in Regarding the environment and the skills that must be taken into account, they are aimed at a completely bilingual environment and all skills such as writing, listening, speaking must be used in the learning process.

I believe that this survey allows us to study in more depth the teaching methods and techniques that can be developed to apply them and become part of the teaching of illiterate students, however I consider that everything is a process of search and intention, I think that if You can achieve meaningful teaching with good results, being clear about how it should be taught and how to allow a good development within the classroom.

         Conclusion

We can see that every day there are more people who need to learn a new language, which has led to the processes of teaching a new language to develop new strategies and methods that carry out development and evolution. However, this project is focused on those students who are embarking on the new path of knowledge. Which this includes teaching processes and methods that are linked to illiteracy.

This is why the interest and research in being able to establish a methodology or strategies that help and contribute to the teaching process.