The Methodology and the use of supplementary material and their influence in the learning of the English Language with the students at “Pío Jaramillo Alvarado” high School. Morning Section. Academic Year 2010-2011.

Abstract

The present research work entitled: The Methodology and the use of supplementary material and their influence on the learning of the English Language with the students at “Pío Jaramillo Alvarado” High School. Morning Section. Academic year 2010-2011, has been developed with the purpose of researching about the methodology and the use of supplementary material that teachers use in the learning of the English language of the before mentioned high school.Within this objective we wanted to analyze the influence of the methodology and the use of supplementary material in the learning of the English Language with the students at “Pío Jaramillo Alvarado” High School. Morning Section. Academic year 2010- 2011. In the development of the present research work we have made use of the scientific method as the main one which has helped to find the true about the researched object. And we also used as particular methods the analytical – synthetic method, inductive- deductive method, statistical method and descriptive method.To develop this research work we applied the instrument of the survey to the students and the English teachers, to process the information the researchers have used the descriptive statistics which had helped us to represent the information in a descriptive way. The main results of the investigation are: the English teachers do not have a good knowledge about methods, techniques and strategies in teaching the English language, besides in the researched institution there is a little use of supplementary didactic material by teachers in their classes for that reason the majority of the students do not like this subject and some of them feel tired, stressful and bored during the class period.