The use of didactic material applied in class by the english teachers and its incidence in the meaningful learning in the students of 8th, 9th, and 10th, basic year of the “27 de Febrero” technical high school of Loja city, academic year 2007 – 2008

Abstract

The present research work entitled: THE USE OF DIDACTIC MATERIAL APPLIED IN CLASS BY THE ENGLISH TEACHERS AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE MEANINGFUL LEARNING IN THE STUDENTS OF 8TH, 9TH AND 10TH BASIC YEAR OF THE "27 DE FEBRERO" TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL OF LOJA CITY, ACADEMIC YEAR 2007 - 2008., has been made with the purpose of discovering the role of the didactic resources in the meaningful learning acquisition.

In the development of the work we have made use of the scientific method as a general one which has helped to find out the real situation about the researched object. And as particular methods we used the descriptive to describe the data, the analytic-synthetic to analyze the results and the explicative to explain the phenomena and to elaborate the report.

In the field work we applied the instrument of the survey to the teachers and the students, to process the information we have used a logical analysis with descriptive statistics that helped us to describe the results in tables and graphs.

Among the main results of the research we found that the teachers most of the time work with permanent material. We also have discovered that they do not take didactic resources to support the teaching of the English Language. There is sub-utilization of some experimental material and they do not elaborate illustrative resources so that they do not get meaningful learning with the students in the English language.

Therefore, we have realized that in the researched institution there are serious problems with the teachers and students because of the frequent use of permanent and informative material and the lack of experimental and illustrative one by part of the teachers who have not gotten a good learning with their students.