Teaching english language at an elementary level to sisto ten years old children at Centro de orientacion Femenino de obrajes La Paz city

Abstract

The present Guided Work is oriented to teach English Language at an elementary level to six to ten years old boys and girls, these children live with their mothers, who are confined at the Centro de Orientación Feminino de Obrajes (C.O.F.) This work seeks to support these children in education; that is to teach them elementary English by using different techniques and strategies.

The project is composed of four section. Section one provides a general introduction or a background in which the project was applied the significance to develop this study, the objectives and delimitation.

The second section contains the theoretical framework, reviewed literature related to children who live with their parents in jails. The education at the Centro de Orientación Femenino de Obrajes, the appropriate age to start to learn a foreign language for a child, benefits of learning a foreign language during childhood, theories of learning, methodologies of teaching and conceptual framework about learning strategies and teaching techniques.

The third section presents the methodology which explain the development of the present work. We mention who participated and who were the beneficiaries from this work. Next we explain the importance of administering a diagnostic evaluation to take into account children’ needs, potentialities or limitation. Then, we present the way we evaluated children during the process of teaching and learning. The results that we got through the present project. It also provides the syllabus design for all the English course program, the lesson plans for each unit and the different activities with a detailed description.