Estrategias para la enseñanza del idioma Inglés en la educación media con miras a mejorar el resultado en prueba SABER 11

Abstract

The teaching-learning process of the English language in Colombia can be difficult in most cases for many learners, considering that it is a foreign language, and even more complex for eleventh grade students who must respond to the standardized test SABER 11. From there, arises the problematic that was developed in this work about the incidence of the strategies that the teacher implements during his/her classes, to obtain a proficiency of the English language in the students of eleventh grade, which has allowed them to get better results in the SABER 11 test. This study starts from a background that serves as a reference material and an argumentative bases, to deepen the research topic and a meticulous study of the theoretical framework of the teaching of the English language, which becomes the main thread of this work. A detailed analysis of the results of the SABER 11 test of the last three years (2014, 2015 and 2016) was carried out, which showed a progressive improvement in the results of the test and the fieldwork carried out at the Santa Ana Educational Institution , which allowed us to understand that the process of teaching of this language requires a variety of strategies aimed at the development of linguistic and communicative skills, as well as the different competences that are evaluated in the SABER 11 test, without forget the real context and the needs of the students