Incidence of didactic material for the English language learning of tenth year students of basic education at TELMO HIDALGO DIAZ high school, in SAN PEDRO SANGOLQUÍ, third trimester, school year 2008-2009

Abstract

To educate means to create situations of learning, this means, to create reliable conditions so the student assimilates something (knowledge, skills, attitudes). When the teacher plans and teaches, he disposes naturally of a plan of studies, of educative principles and auxiliary didactic material. The objective of the education is to prepare the individual for the different exigencies that the reality of life will show to him, as far as the society is concerned as to him. Actually, the didactic material almost always is lexicon-visual; this is, as the text and the illustrations are interconnected. In principle, the reality can be presented of three distinct manners (ordered in decreasing sense according to the facility of comprehension); the own reality, the images (in movement and in repose) and the words (oral language or text). There are several possibilities of combining didactic material in order to represent the reality. Naturally, there are cases where it is presented material of teaching in form only of text or only oral. The pedagogical works of research and development were concentrated in a consistent draw and in one experiment of pedagogic systems based on didactic elements (combinations of different didactic elements, set of didactic material ). That involves on better adaptation of the scholar activity to the goals established in study plans: the pedagogic system based in combinations of didactic elements guaranties the achievement of positive results. One system of that kind is the teaching of the English Language. The contributions of the teacher are also essentials to the adaptation of a certain pedagogic system based in didactic elements and to the group of students that are under his charge. Teachers can improvise and use didactic materials to build an atmosphere of creativity, even when there is no budget. The text plays a part of vital significance in the man s life and in its professional activity, since it is a half fundamental of knowledge and communication. Reading in foreign languages also has great social, educational importance and practice. By means of the reading of periodic publications in a foreign language one can know the activity economic, scientific and cultural general of the origin country. In the educational field, the process more important is the teaching- learning and this is related with the help of a text as a guide, becoming a very beneficial result as much as the teachers like for the students, is for this reason that in nowadays, its use has become essential.