Communicative activities to enhance speaking skills in the EFL classroom at the tenth level of basic education at San Francisco de Sales High School

Abstract

ABSTRACT Communicative activities must be taken into consideration when developing the target language in the students. However, most of the English teachers only focus on the grammar area which causes that the class becomes routine and boring. Through a survey presented to fourteen students and an interview presented to four English teachers, the research teacher could collect important data that served to find out the level of the students as well as the most appropriate activities that students like to perform in the class. In this way, communicative activities were proposed to be developed as extra material for English teachers. Thus, they might use them in order to develop and improve the use of the target language in different tasks where learners must use the speaking skill with the purpose of expressing their thoughts and ideas in a clear and concise way.