A Motivating Path to Achieve Fluency

Abstract

This final dissertation leads with the idea of motivating students through real context and developing their communicative competence while teaching English as a foreign language. It is designed for the 1st course of Bachillerato in a Canarian high school. The teaching programme will cover 9 learning situations where the main focus is on developing students’ speaking fluency. For this reason, new methodologies play an important role. Active methodologies are included in the learning situations since they are more inclusive and attend different types of learning due to the fact that not all students learn in the same way, neither have the same capabilities. Therefore, it is important to include different registers in order to get to all students. Moreover, teachers have to be the guide in the learning process, and consequently, they have to provide the necessary scaffolding and multileveled activities in order to make their students feel comfortable and secure in their learning process, which will help them to keep motivation updated and improve their self-stem. In addition, they will elaborate a learning diary in a blog, where they will upload some works of each learning situation, so they will be able to see their progress and develop their digital competence, which is essential in their times. Equality is found in diversity, so for this reason all students need to be included in the class, and teachers have to make sure of it. Therefore, the evaluation process will be continuous, formative and differentiating. Given that, self-evaluation is significant because students will reflect about their own learning process to foster self-regulation. Finally, an integral formation attends to education in values with the aim of enhancing students’ critical thinking.