System of activities to develop oral communication strategies in starter students at the university of Matanzas.

Abstract

The training of highly qualified professionals demands the fulfillment of certain requirements like the communicative competence in English language. To fulfill that objective, the Cuban System of Higher Education gives great importance to the mastery of English language in different majors. In this context, oral communication strategies are highly valued in the English Language Teaching literature due to its usefulness to make oral interactional communication more effective and possible, even for speakers with low levels of linguistic competence development. However, students finish their studies without using them in their communication, a fact that limits their success in learning the English language. To solve this problem, the present degree paper’s aim is to elaborate a system of activities to develop oral communication strategies in starter students at the University of Matanzas. It encompasses some general aspects of oral communication strategies in order to understand this matter. A system of activities was included as well as oral and written model texts analysis, in which students are encouraged to identify the relationship between oral communication strategies and their language forms. The research proposes the bases, and practical fundamentals to the application of the scientific result. It is guided by the materialist-dialectical method as the general methodology of the scientific cognition process, which allowed the application of different methods from the educational sphere related to the theoretical and empirical levels in order to characterize the object of study and arrive to the necessary conclusions about the importance of oral communication strategies in language learning.