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Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación
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Pedagogía en Lengua y cultura Inglesas
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Jornada Vespertina

Teaching English to Adult Learners through the Use of Videos to develop Listening Skill
INFORME DE PROYECTO DE SEMINARIO DE TÍTULO PRESENTADO A LA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN DELA UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE CHILE, PARA OPTAR AL GRADO ACADÉMICO DE LICENCIADO EN EDUCACIÓN Y AL TÍTULO PROFESIONAL DE PROFESOR DE INGLÉS.

Students: Joyce Chavarría
José Díaz
María José Gonzalez
Paolo Molina
Estefanía Rodríguez
Yamil Zerené
Advising Professor: Rubén Muñoz V.

Santiago, Junio 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT 4
CHAPTER I
PROBLEMATIZATION1. TOPIC 6
1.1 TOPIC ANALYSIS 6
2. RESEARCH QUESTION 7
3. APPROACH 7
4. CATEGORIES 7
5. SUBJECTS OF THE STUDY 7
6. OBJECT OF THE STUDY 7
7. COLLABORATOR SUBJECTS 8
8. PARADIGM 8
9. ASSUMPTIONS 9
10. GENERAL OBJECTIVES 9
11. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 9
10. EMPIRICAL BACKGROUND 10

CHAPTER II
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

1. ADULT EDUCATION 13
1.1 How do adults learn? 13
2. ENGLISHLANGUAGE LEARNING 15
3. AUDIOVISUAL AIDS IN EDUCATION 16
3.1 Types of audiovisual aids 16
3.2 The educational use of video 17

4. LISTENING SKILL 19

CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
1. APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY 21
2. METHODOLOGICAL STAGES 21
3. SAMPLE 22
4. DESIGN 22
5. INSTRUMENTS OR DATA COLLECTING 23
6. SCIENTIFIC RIGOUR 23
7. DATA ANALYSIS PLAN 24

BIBLIOGRAPHY 24

ABSTRACTThe following research will be focused on analyzing the impact generated by the use of educational videos, in order to know if these elements have any effect on adult learners in their listening skill development.
This research will be carried out in two different adult educational facilities where the researchers are developing their internship process. One of them is the institute calledCreando Futuro, and the other one the public school called Fermin Vivaceta.
Among the methodological instruments to be used are lesson plans, interviews and questionnaires. They will be validated by judge experts.
It is expected that at the end of the study the data collected may show the results that indicate what is the real impact of the use of audiovisual aids, specifically videos, focusedon the listening skill of a group of adult learners.

CHAPTER I
PROBLEMATIZATION

I. Topic of study
Teaching English by the use of video to adult learners

1.1 Topic Analysis
This research arises from our experience of both being students at an evening program of English pedagogy, and having the opportunity of developing our professional practicum at institutions during the evening time.What inspires us to research this topic is the fact that it has not been studied in detail. This gives us the motivation to get to know more about the subject in order to incorporate new practices that can help to develop English learning in adults.
Now, the subject of the English language learning comes from the concern that we, as future English teachers, have about the students being able tolearn and understand the target language.
From the research that we have made, we have not been able to find information about relevant works regarding the study of adult teaching strategies. Authors in general, explain the development of children and young learners, however we have not found any authors who specify how processes of learning in adults are.
This is why this study is interesting,because of the fact it is something new and it has not been studied profoundly. We know that this thesis, in some way, will impact in readers because of its high investigative content. Also, we think this study will be helpful for those wanting to work in this area, because it attempts to explain some learning strategies which would be useful for teaching adults.

It is expected that, at the...