Laura Ospina- Yuranis Lara Interpersonal relationships

UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSE DE CALDAS 

Names:  Laura Camila Ospina Godoy 20091165033, Yuranis Paola Lara Garcia 20082165024

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES DURING THE ENGLISH LEARNING PROCESS

RESEARCH QUESTION

How to foster 5^th graders interpersonal relationships during the English learning process through recreational activities?

ABSTRACT

This project will be developed with 5^th grade children in a public school. We will focus this study to foster interpersonal relationships among students using a set of different recreational activities into the classroom in a foreign language context, it means, that we will based this study on improving not only the English learning process in children but also the social aspects in the classroom through cooperative learning.

Key words: interpersonal relations, English learning process, recreational activities. 

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The situation emerged from some observations that we made to a group of students in a public school of Bogota (I. E. D Policarpa Salavarrieta). Before to started the pedagogical project we had the opportunity to observe some English teachers while they were giving their classes to 5^thand 6^th graders, during this observations we could notice a lack of interest in the students because of the dynamic of teachers in classes: the classes were based on grammatical topics and there was no interaction in the foreign language among students, due to the classes consisted on learning only vocabulary and grammatical structures. The classes were very monotonous, there was no interaction between student - student or teacher - students, not had this enthusiasm for learning. Teachers gave a worksheet to the students and they had to find a solution individually, it could take at least three sessions per worksheet, we realize it was not interesting and that they get boring because they could not interact with their classmates. When we started the pedagogical experience, we realize that students interact with a few of their classmates and often in groups of the same gender. In this case, we have to highlight the lack of interpersonal relationships among students, during the English learning process. During these observations we saw that students had no good relationship between them, because of this and to others things that we wrote before, we decided to make our work on how to improve interpersonal relationships in students during the English class through recreational activities where they feel involved and interested.