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ACTIVITY 2
-Collection of initial evidence to define and justify a Research Statement-
RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Jorge Álvaro Núñez Bernal


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Lic. Sandra Rodriguez.
-Submitted through Virtual Campus-

UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMAS


VUAD
EDUCATION FACULTY
B.A. IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
2018
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FOR DATA COLLECTION: Observation in the Research Context (Adapted


from Dörnyei, 2007)
Format 1 -Observation
Institution Universidad de Los Llanos -Instituto de Idiomas-
Group of participants Teens Waystage A Students (19)_afternoon 12-4pm.
English level of education – A2
CEF-
Class Topic_Activity -Past Progreesive / Simple Past Questions & Answers warm up
activity.
-Online exercises Task setting.
-My Last Vacations socialization video Task setting.
Observation No. 1
Student’s name Jorge Alvaro Núñez Bernal
CAU Villavicencio
Date March 17th 2018

General Description

-Development of context; institution, environment or participants-

Unillanos is a Public institution from the city of Villavicencio, which has an extension that
belongs to the Eduacation and Arts faculty.

The English courses are open to all ages public, belonging or not to the University and relatives
from University workers –with especial fee due to “social action”; or anybody who is
interested. Fares are very convenient compared with other private institutions, and all the
processes are certified under international patterns, such CEF (A1 to C2).

Participants are mostly children, teenagers and young adults from 2-4 stratum from the city
of Villavicencio and surrounding areas; that makes the environment free of pressure and most
of the students take the courses due to personal academic purposes, since they also get
English certifications of the levels they study and approve.
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a-Classroom Organization *1

The classroom is a well- aired and full of light classroom on a four-floor of a building belonged
to the University. Has the students desks and are generally organized; the front desk is located
in the left side of the classroom.

b-Level of English

The level of English of the class is A2 according to ECF, the name of the course is Teens
Waystage A.

c-Materials Resources *2

We have in the classroom desks, a board, a main or teacher´s desk, a 42” tv Set –audio visual
aid-, a laptop and a fan.

d-Role of the teacher

As the teacher, I intend to be a mediator; to be the one who help students to take the lead
during classes. My main concern is that students can interact and lead the class, though an
active participation; to set the rules of the class thru different activities and to evidence
activities development; as making comments and corrections – mostly possitive input- and
encourage students´ participation.

e-Interaction Among Participants

During this first Session and having already seen the topic, along with the use of the text book
and its different activities, They are aware about the differences between Past and Past
Progressive tenses. After that I let them practice not only grammars, but the correct
pronunciation of some verbs -i.e. irregular verbs in present-past /i:/, /Id/, /t/.

With that purpose I Have set Three different activities, some developed in the classroom, some
other they must develop online, buy the mediation of EDMODO, a blog application, similar
to Facebook, but for academic purposes.

1-Warm Up.

Students are divided into two groups -A & B- they must ask questions and the
other group answer the questions; each time a student answers questions, the
group receives a point. This activity allows them to practice and make corrections along it.
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2-Online Excercises *3

This task was set to practice at home. They should post the results in Edmodo and
the due date of this activity Was set to
March 21st.

3- Task setting *4

Socialization about “My Last Vacations”. Video Uploading to EDMODO.

Another task that was set is “My last Vacations”; a set of pics of their
last vacations, and their explanation using sentences like “ This Was my mum
swimming in the sea” or “I danced a lot that night”, for example.

This activity first was initially planned to be developed in class, but since my work
intends to use the mediations of ICT tools, like EDMODO, saving up class time on
correcting socializations, -among others- I gave them an additional +,5 on their final
Term´s grade for uploading a video on You tube or directly to the blog. The Due
date for this is March 24th.

f-Use of English /Spanish:

1-Warm up -The activity was performed entirely in English.


2- Since I told them about EDMODO app. and the grading derived from the
Blog participation, I explained this part in spanish.
3- “My last vacations” When setting this task I put as an example my own last
Vacations1

g-Conflicts

1, 2-No conflicts Were observed during these two stages of the class.

3- Some Questions arose regarding the Uploading of the video, questions that
were answered and solved
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h- Significant experiences

1-Students found interesting Warm up activities, since allow them to be relaxed


and practice, make mistakes and re-think on their mistakes, while they have
fun, “eenie-meenie miney mo” is a classic, fun and exciting for them, this kind
of activities Foster group and invdividual participation.

2,3. Both activities Online Exercises and the Uploading of the socialization
encourage them to not only practicing english during the week, but, to have
a change of the regular classroom routin activities; they seemed interested in
participating in the activity.

EVIDENCES *

1-Class room organization -Traditional front-left sided desk, the teacher stands in front of the class;
sometimes the class is organized in a round shape, according to the activity-.
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2-Materials resources
42”TV Set-Audiovisual aid-

LAPTOP
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Board

In Sync Book_ Folder with Class Diaries


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Syllabus_Lesson plan
The lesson plan, and course syllabus is entirely based by the textbook, which brings the
guidance about topics and some activities.

Class Diary

These are my notes and my personal way of preparing classes, there are aspects such as
sequence of the activities, timing, and description of the activities.

Class March 17th – Observation #1 Class March 24th- Oservation # 2


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3-Online excercises -screnshot -


Explanation about URL and location of exercises in the site.

4-Task setting
The teacher explains how to use the Blog and how to post videos, also gives a practical
example about how to do it.

https://youtu.be/7tYjSGx3_dQ
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Institution Universidad de Los Llanos -Instituto de Idiomas-


Group of participants Teens Waystage A students (19)
English level of education A2
Class Topic_Activity - Past Progreesive / Simple Past; class room checking of online exercises
- Socialization video check.
Observation No. 2
Student’s name Jorge Alvaro Núñez Bernal
CAU Villavicencio
Date March 24th 2018

General Description

In this second session of work I Focussed on reviewing those who did the task, who posted the
excercises and the videos; the advantages and constraints found by them.

a-Classroom Organization

The classroom organization was similar to the first session.

b-Level of English

The level of English of the class is A2 according to ECF, the name of the course is Teens
Waystage A.

c-Materials Resources

We have in the classroom desks, a board, a main or teacher´s desk, a tv Set –audio visual
aides*, a laptop* and one fan.

d-Role of the teacher

The teacher Iintends to be a mediator; to be the one who helps students to take the lead
during classes. The main concern is that students can interact and lead the class, though an
active participation; to set the rules of the class thru different activities and to see how things
develop, make comments and corrections – mostly possitive input- and encourage students
participation.
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e-Interaction Among Participants

1-Online Excercises

This task was set to practice at home, Edmodo blog and the posting of this
activity was announced, the due date for hand-out this activity Was set to
March 21st. The main idea of these exercises was to let them practice for today´s
Witten Term´s.

2- Task Review *2

Socialization about “My Last Vacations”. Video Uploading to EDMODO.

Those who didn´t upload the video must socialize in class, some questions were
asked to them, from the teacher, and from the students, in simple past tense and
past progressive.

f-Use of English /Spanish:

2- During the task review- Students ask their own made questions, during the
socialization of a student; they must ask among them questions in simple pasta nd
progressive, this part pf the class is entirely in English, except wen they are writing
the questions and they have some doubt about any vocabulary, they are told so
to ask with the “How do you say” sentence.

g-Conflicts

- 3 students had problems when creating an EDMODO account-


- 2 Students could not Access the ONLINE Exercises.
- All of them manifested a long time waiting for Uploading the Videos.

h- Significant experiences

1.. Both activities Online Exercises and the Uploading of the socialization
encourage them to not only practicing english during the week, but, to have
a change of the regular classroom routin activities; they seemed interested in
participating in the activity.
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Evidences
1-Edmodo Class
For ICT mediation activities the Blog was created; for posting tasks, comments, quizzes,
surveys, also Foster students participation and english practice during the weekdays- since
this class only takes place once per week, on Saturdays.
a-Instructive for account creation

b-Blog
Evidences of the Blog and its members
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Members of the Blog- Class Teens A

2- Tasks Evidences
Description: Here are the picturs and evidences of the tasks posted by students.
Online exercises
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My last vacations video posting Works –Done by students-.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=PJMFZn699aE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=5JiEc6_wJ8o
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INTERACTION WITH PARTICIPANTS IN THE RESEARCH CONTEXT

INTERACTION WITH PARTICIPANTS IN THE RESEARCH CONTEXT

Date: March 22nd 2018 Institution: Unillanos univ./ Ideas Univ.


Interviewed: Teacher Frainory Gomez.- English . .
Teacher at Unillanos Univ.; Acad. Coord. Ideas Univ.

Questions: The aspects that called my attention were from slights to


some relevant aspects; many things could be considered
in order to do Research, from QUAL & QUAL research to
the phenomena occurred when interacting teacher and
students, many other aspects as well. as Dorney said,
there is no order in this conversation, just a meaningful
interchange.”

Script conversation held at


2:07pm.

FRAINORY
JORGE

Is the best thing in the world, very difficult in our


What is your opinion about
Colombian context, sometimes, for instance the public
being a teacher?
University has to invest more in physical resources and
Research.
How do you describe your
experience of teaching
Anyway, we have to do our best…
English and learning in this
context?
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The region is very rich, but politics and policies are not the
Is possible really teaching adequate, for example, there are many teachers here, that
here? because of political favors are teaching, and for me, are
no good teachers.

What´s that mean? That people, good teachers, cannot


work, or is more difficult, is corrupt, in any way you see it.

why did you choose this Because you do not work for them, you work for teaching
profession? itself.

Fortunate or Unfortunately, learning English is significant


What are your interests for nowadays, but, only a few have the chance to have
English Teaching and contact with this language and some teaching methods,
learning? good ones, extremely expensive, should be a national law,
learning a second language. Especially English; so my
interests parted from my likes about it, and therefore
became a passion to teach, of course I have to carry on
with my formative process

What aspects you like about Unillanos has good and bad aspects, good, the good will
or you don´t like about the of the institution, bad: The facilities of the English Institute
institution or the English are Insufficient, for that amount of students, there is no
classroom? air conditioning, then, some days is difficult for working.

Ok, My Teacher. Thank you,


very much Ok, Mr. Nuñez.
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REFLECTIONS

Reflection 1 Reflection 2 Reflection 3

-About the warm Up- -About the Online Exercises- -The main task-

Eventhough this áctivity doesnt This activity is directed related The main task is called “My Last
have to do directly with ICT´s, - with the practice and work Vacations”, in this task, students,,
which is the main objective of my though an ICT environment should through the application
Research-, Is important as a part of mediation, related directly with of Past progressive and simple
the topic´s aquisition – Simple Past the topic seen in class and, as a past; socialize and record
tense/ Past Progressive- and support for making the main themselves showing their last
practice –that would eventually activity described here: The vacations.
support and complement the ICT´s Video uploading of a
mediated activities proposed for socialization called “ My last This video posting and
this work-. vacations”. production was fun for them and
the mediation of an ICT
-Is a amusing way for them to According to suggestions done environment such as EDMODO,
practice and learn. by the tutor, is not just finding dynamizes the class, and help
activities in te net and posting a them to work in a different way,
link; that is precisely what I did. In this definitevely enriches the
further activities, I would like to learning experience and Oral
design my own ICT tools, but not practice.
by now.
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