DIRECCIÓN DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y POSTGRADO

FORMULARIO PARA TESIS DE LICENCIATURA

1. Datos del participante

VILMA ESTELA PALACIO BROWN

Nombre Segundo nombre Apellido Paterno Apellido Materno

Femenina 1-26-1881 65851983 vilmap2867@gmail.com

Cédula de Teléfono celular Correo

Identidad electrónico
Personal
Licenciatura en ingles X cuatrimestre Facultad de humanidades David

Licenciatura que Periodo que Facultad Sede

cursa cursa

FIRMA DEL ESTUDIANTE: Vilma palacio

2. Datos del Docente-Investigador sugerido

Nombre Segundo nombre Apellido Paterno Apellido Materno

Sexo Cédula de Teléfono celular Correo

Identidad electrónico
Personal

ACEPTACIÓN Y FIRMA DEL DOCENTE

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 3. INVESTIGACIÓN A DESARROLLAR

1. TÍTULO:(15 palabras máximo)

Analysis of the problems that make it difficult to learn English in eighth grade students
from las 30 school of las 30 in the district of changuinola
2. Línea de Investigación

The existing research line will consist of a MATRIXLINE named LANGUAGE

SCIENCES and four sub-lines, namely:

l Subsection 1: mother tongue and foreign language teaching (including all classroom
projects and foreign teaching practices).

l Subsection 2: mother tongue and foreign language studies (where subject projects
and related applied language practice will be recorded).

l Subsection 3: Native and foreign language literature studies (projects of relevant

subjects and applied language practice will be included).

l Sub-line 4: Evaluation of the foreign language teaching process.

ASPECTOS GENERALES

1. Situación actual del problema

The eighth graders at Escuela de las 30 have a high rate of failure in the
English language. It is probably because this would be a third language that
they try to learn in the classroom. These students mostly have their mother
tongue and apart from that they learn Spanish at the same time. We will try to
analyze how this reality influences the result of their qualifications. And what
means would favor to improve its performance.

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 2. Planteamiento del Problema

Learning a language is a complex process. For some people this occurs without
major setbacks, however, others do not perform well and their learning
encounters multiple difficulties. Various researchers in the area of foreign
language learning have identified that problems such as pronunciation,
vocabulary, grammar, spelling, punctuation and study strategies are key in the
development of learning. In addition, these students are hampered not only with
one language but with two at the same time. Based on the fact that most of the
cases are teachers who transmit the English language, but from the perspective
of Spanish and it is not done from the concepts of mother tongue that would
congratulate their understanding. Causing the student to get lost in a world of
unknown words.
Due to the different types of attitudes in students, as well as the poor
performance in English that occurs in many cases that have been established,
there are some causes that highly affect the learning of a foreign language, it is
necessary to inquire about these problems and explain the relationship they
have with learning English.
• Pronunciation problems
• Vocabulary problems
• Grammar problems
• Spelling and punctuation problems

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 3. Objetivos de la Investigación

My main objective is to find a possible efficient way to teach English in this

eighth grade group, in addition to finding ways to do it directly from the mother
tongue. In other words, create resources in the mother tongue to teach English
classes.

3.1. Objetivo general

• To analyze some causes that affect the learning of the English language in
eighth grade groups.
3.2 Objetivos Específicos

• To identify English language learning problems.

• To analyze the problems that make it difficult to learn the English language.
• To apply oral written tests among others to determine English language
learning progress.

4. Justificación del estudio

The linguistic competences in this research are important since they contribute in the
secondary schools of our country; in the training of boys and girls to develop skills,
practices and language management, whose main objective is to awaken interest,
motivation and love for the English language. This research work is based on the
English language learning problems that we can observe in students in the English
present in eighth grade classrooms. We have been able to perceive in eighth grade
students: fear, nerves, discouragement and grief when speaking English in and out of
the classroom. Which is very worrying that children of that level present negative
attitudes towards this language. For this reason we have begun the search for these
difficulties that hold students captive in not learning the language well.

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 5. Diseño de la Investigación

It is a documentary research study that will be based on data obtained from

permanent observation in eighth grade students. It is a non-experimental -
cuantitive retrospective research, since it will be carried out without deliberately
manipulating variables, that is, it is an investigation where we do not
intentionally vary the independent variables, but rather observe phenomena as
they occur in their natural context, in order to then analyze them. "The study
time will be one academic year.

5.1 Universo

 students from bocas del toro

5.2 Población

 Students at escuela las 30

5.3 Muestra

 The study will work with 100 of the students in Rooms eighth A, eighth B, eighth
C, where they will carry out written and verbal assignments and exams, talks,
dramas and murals. All this from the perspective of your own mother tongue.
 Population level is 100
 Confidence level 95%
 5% margin of error
Sample size 80%

6. Referencia Bibliográfica

Constancia de la Biblioteca de no duplicidad

Fecha de recibido y firma

Fecha de aprobación

Designación de código
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Firma

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