Guía metodológica de la estrategia del sociodrama como herramienta de enseñanza del idioma inglés en los estudiantes del cuarto nivel de la Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí.

Abstract

This research is meant to stablish a creative, innovative, and formative methodology in Teaching English to undergraduate students at Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí. This motivating strategy of self learning involves ludic resources where the role of the students is active and participative, where the student not only enjoys but also loses fear of speaking in public or present ideas using other forms of expression. Role playing is presented as a didactic tool in the classroom in which its positive aspects will be identified throughout the development of the project and at the same time will be a proposal of a guide for a bilingual theatrical pedagogy in graduate programs, and at the moment of achieving the goal of the proposal, the main beneficiaries will be the students for being part of a proposal that will develop interpretative, adaptive, and autonomous communication abilities, given that this will allow students to be in charge of their own creative process. This will be a field research which involves a mixed method, and the population to be taken into consideration involves undergraduate students enrolled in Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí, and data collecting instruments supported in focus groups will be used along with surveys that will allow the students being interviewed to speak openly about their expectations and motivation with regard to the use of dynamic and active activities inside the classroom, which will create an effective skills development, and a cooperative environment between teachers and students, transforming the english Language Teaching into a necessary tool of communication.