Incidence of total physical response method in the teaching second language program applied at "Isabel de Godin" High School at Third Secretarial Bilingual Baccalaureate year during the first term 2006-2007

Abstract

Education of mean-level students must be oriented towards the objective of contributing to create a society that respects its intrinsic cultural values and their identity, but simultaneously diverse and; in addition, it must stimulate the capacity to interrelate with people from different nations and cultures. Therefore, students need appropriate and effective communication mechanisms. The English National Program issued by The Ministry of Education and Culture of Ecuador states that learning more than one language is advantageous for all, for that reason, the attention to the necessities of the citizens and communication, which is the most important in this globalize world, must be a feature in the modern education. If it is considered that the challenge of the contemporary education is to contribute to develop the competitions of the students to coexist in their local community and in a near world-wife community, it could be stated that the knowledge of several languages, in special of the English language as it was recognized mainly like the universal language. The Ministry of Education and Culture of Ecuador, coherent with these premises, considers to the English language as a tool of work for professional that today are getting prepared in the classrooms in quality of students and, therefore, one of the important elements is their integral formation. The programming of the English subject for the eighth, ninth, the tenth grades from Basic Education and three from Baccalaureate, has a functional - communicative approach, it is expected that the students develops the receptive linguistic competitions of listening and reading and the productive competitions like primary approach and in a narrow relation with aspects of socialization, development of values and development of sub-skills, those that are of utility in the studying process and in the future professional exercise.