The use of prosody elements and the total physical response method for the listening comprehension strengthening in englis language

Abstract

According to a diagnostic test applied, students from third and ninth grade from the Educational Institution Gimnasio del Pacífico presented a very low level in the listening comprehension skill in the English language. In brief the principal objective in this study is to strengthen the listening comprehension by using TPR method and some Prosody elements which were approached in order to adapt them to the English classes; games, songs, activities outdoors, nursery rhymes, stories, mimics and other workshops were performed to achieve the explained goal related to the strengthening of a skill based on TPR method and Prosody, and at the end, some results were taken out to study the differences and similar points regarding to both populations. This study revealed some important aspects about a different way of teaching to improve a deficiency.