The Language Teaching

7. TITLE
SPEAKING AND PLAYING!

7.1 INTRODUCTION
“Speaking and playing!” is a tool to teaching English as a foreign language, it is based on joyful activities that let students to develop the oral interaction process, and it will also help students to create the habit to speak without be ashamed because they are not used to do it. This project is developed with students of 3rd° Level ofExtramural Courses at Universidad Del Atlantico, in order to strengthen the abilities of students in the speaking process like oral interaction and expressing in English language.
Also, this proposal attempts to develop in the students the desires to speak and to use the different strategies in order to communicate, by speaking the students not only will acquire speaking skills but also they willlearn vocabulary, grammar expressions, they will practice their previous knowledge and the other skills, like reading, writing listening, and also they are going to learn about different cultures enriching their knowledge.
For this reason, by implementing this proposal and by the employment of joyful games to strengthen the oral interaction in English language contexts, it is wanted to do thisprocess more dynamic, students will be able to explore new knowledge and will understand different point of view in order to develop their critical skills.

7.2 JUSTIFICATION
This pedagogical proposal arises from a necessity found in a specific group of students in which that one to investigate after being exposed to a diagnostic evaluation, the result was a lack of motivation for speakingactivities and that problem did not let students to understand the spoken language brought to the English class; for that reason the researcher group decided to create this proposal in order to improve oral interaction in those students, this proposal is basically based in an action plan that will offer the opportunity to interact with a series of games, where students will need to speak and then theyhave to talk about how they felt during the activity in class, is important to have clear that those activities are joyful, because during the investigation, students complained about the monotony and boring activities done in class.
By implementing this proposal the researcher group attempts to find a way to improve as it was said the oral interaction process in the students while playing somegames in English, also this proposal wants to create speaking habits due to the fact that students were not used to do it, and trough this proposal it is wanted that students could be able to know that they are learning which means to develop the awareness in the students in order to promote the improvement of the different skills needed to understand a foreign language, in this case the Englishlanguage, and at the same time that are used those joyful activities to value the understating of the speaking skill, it is improving the lack of motivation to speak in a foreign language found at the beginning of this process.

7.3 METHODOLOGY
The construction of this proposal was not something done from one day to another one, but it was done in a series of phases;
The first one was theplanning, in this phase after doing the diagnostic plan and found the reason of the problem, the researcher group made a plan in order to solve or to improve that issue. The second one was the introduction of the proposal to the students, this presentation was done in a meeting held by the researcher group, in this meeting this group exposed the investigation and the diagnostic plan worked in thestudents and the problem found, after that it was presented the proposal, what it was about, the time this proposal could take, the beneficiaries, the way those beneficiaries could be selected, it was asked if they were in agreement with this proposal, and their own responsibility will get because they should be attentive if they were doing well the activities; also it was heard the opinions these...