The use of slangs and idioms as a methodological strategy to improve the speaking skill of english language with the students of tercer año de bachillerato ‘B’ of aplicaciones informáticas specialty at unidad educativa “Isabel de Godín” during the academic year 2014-2015

Abstract

English has always been seen as one of the most important languages. Our world is connected by English and nowadays it is really relevant for all people to learn and use English correctly. In Ecuador, the teaching-learning process of English as a second language has a huge importance in the new educative guidelines, even though student are still not able to communicate themselves in a fluent, real and natural manner and in this way SPEAKING, that is one of the most important skills of the language, is not being developed completely. There are many reasons for which students can get confused and cannot develop their speaking skill correctly, one these reasons is that every language of the world is composed by a huge number of idiomatic expression that facilitate the interaction of a real conversation among native speakers. English is not the exception, and it has a big variety of expressions that include slangs and idioms; even when they are part of the language and their use is vital because they are appear everywhere, teachers have forgotten them and they are not used in the English as a second language lesson. Along two periods of pre-professional internships at Unidad Educativa “Isabel de Godín” it could be noticed that students of Tercer Año of Bachillerato “B” of Computing Applications Specialty were not familiarized with idiomatic expressions of English language (slangs and idioms) because their teachers have never used the expressions in the classes. For this reason students did not have developed their speaking skill in a fluent and natural manner, they were bored and did not want to practice and participate in the lessons.