Developing the reading and listening skills through the use of fairy tales with children of sixth level of basic education at "José Peralta” elementary school”

Abstract

Fairy tales are fantastic and imaginary stories of an unreal world created for children. Most of the time, these tales contain creatures of fantasy and amazing adventures. In addition, these kinds of stories give us a message to be learned. The fairy tale is a genre of literature which is recognized as one of the most important. In this project, the creation, application, and analysis of material based on the fairy tale Cinderella will be presented. This work was done with the purpose of helping in the teaching-learning process of reading and listening at “Jose Peralta” Elementary School in Cuenca, Ecuador with students of Sixth Level of Basic Education. The material was applied during forty-five-minute classes. During the activities students were able to use their creativity and imagination. Teaching them the values reflected in this fairy tale was also an important goal to accomplish through this project.

The data were collected by using two questionnaires and an interview with an expert. The questionnaires were given to students of the sixth level and an English expert in order to get information on the topic.

This research project looks at the application of various methods and techniques to show the importance of tales and how they can be used by motivated teachers in their English lessons. The findings demonstrate that tales support learning and contribute to the enrichment of children`s knowledge in different ways. They also allow us to make some suggestions about how fairy tales might be taught more effectively in the future in English lessons.