How to improve the Students’ Language Performance Through Effective Coherent Classroom Task Instructions?

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study was an AR project focused on how to improve the students’ language performance through effective coherent classroom task instructions, aiming to know different strategies to be applied in third grade´s English classes at the school Vida para todos. The results of the research were collected through class tasks, observations reports, logs-pictures, interview/ transcription, inquiry for students and CT, videos and lesson plans. The methodology of the action plan was based on “The Floor Plan Module” (Mager, 1997) that proposed an instructional sequence to be systematic, clear, concise and consistent in the moment to explain a task or an activity to students. Even though the action plan allowed fostering an English environment in the class and students were used to read and follow instructions; there was a difficult that affected the process, it was the interference of the students’ modern tongue, which was faced using the code switching as a way to generate a meaningful communication inside the class.