Communicative strategies and the english academic performance of the fifth-year secondary school students at the Educational Institution N ° 88320 San Bartolo – Santa 2018

Abstract

Communicative Language Teaching approach got importance thanks to the development of four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) equally. Likewise, Communicative strategies develop English at a communicative and functional level which improve the student’s performance in English as a second language. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the influence of communicative strategies in the academic performance in the English language course of fifth-year secondary school students of the educational institution N° 88320 San Bartolo – Santa, for which the following problem was formulated: How do the communicative strategies influence in the academic performance of English language of fifth-year secondary school students of the educational institution N ° 88320 San Bartolo - Santa? The present research used the quantitative approach, an explanatory scope and a quasi-experimental design, Data was collected through a pre-test and post-test; and observation guides from 65 students who were in the fifth grade of secondary school. From the statistical treatment, we could infer that the communicative strategies caused a significant effect in the academic performance in the English language course in fifth-year secondary school students of the educational institution N° 88320 San Bartolo with 2,296 of positive, strong variance, and a significance value lower than 0,05.