Research

USING GAMES AS A STRATEGY TO PROMOTE DOING HOMEWORK IN THIRD PRIMARY GRADERS

A short study done with third graders from Instituto La Paz in 2005 to promote solving homework at home and evaluating them through games in class in order to do homework a committing activity. 

THE PORTFOLIO, A USEFUL TOOL TO CHECK STUDENT PROGRESS

A short study done with sixth graders from Técnico Menorah IED in 2007 to search how important is to have students evidences and give them the opportunity to evaluate their own process and their peers'. It showed how critical can be our students and how important are their perspectives and criteria to evaluate others.

USING STUDENT INTEREST TO IMPROVE THEIR ENGLISH VOCABULARY  

A short study done with eleventh graders from Institución Educativa Juventud del Sur (2006) to increase students vocabulary using their learning styles and social interests in order to scaffold them to have a better reading comprehension process.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: A TOOL TO IMPROVE THE ORAL COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH 

A study done with fourth and fifth graders from  Liceo Moderno Celestín Freinet  in 2008 in order to accomplish with my BA graduation requirements. Using different didactic learning units with activities designed based on MI theory developed by Howard Gardner who said that all people have eight different ways to acquire new knowledge.  This strategy helped students to improve their oral production and their participation in English class.

DEVELOPING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION AND SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING STRATEGIES THROUGH THE USE OF DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECTS

This project was a research, which inquired about the reading comprehension level of tenth and eleventh graders from a public high school (2015). The objectives of this research were to assess how students recognize explicit information in a text to answer questions with the appropriate response through the use of digital learning objects in a blended environment; and to determine if the use of these DLO contributed to improve students' reading comprehension and the acquisition of new vocabulary. This action research used task based methodology in a blended learning environment where thirteen lessons were created based on digital learning objects in a MOODLE platform. These lessons helped students to improve their reading comprehension strategies and to increase their vocabulary.

MY LIFE PLAN (PBL)

(2018) Most of our public school students are just limited for the low number of opportunities to go to the university and study a professional career. In fact, some of them just want to finish the secondary and go to work to help their families bringing money to their homes. Most of them don't know what they are going to do after getting graduated from secondary. So, the idea of this project was  to help them first to know more about themselves. Then, to help them to have a clear and serious vision of their life in order to make their life plan. This proposal pretended to promote ethical behaviors regarding citizenship and living together. That way, students could develop interaction in English class while learning to know themselves; their skills, talents, abilities and weaknesses as well. The idea was to generate consciousness on students to design their real-life plan at the same time improving oral skills.