The Use of Authentic Materials to Improve the English Language Skills

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This action research was conducted to learn how using authentic materials helps students improve their language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, in a group of 11th graders at a public institution INEM Jose Felix de Restrepo in the city of Medellín. The data collection instruments included journals, surveys, student artifacts, focus group, CT interview, and advisor observation report, showing the necessary evidence of how the students, through the use of authentic materials like videos, articles, and comics could improve their language skills except for reading since lack of time and another obstacles that made impossible to implement more activities to deepen this skill.