Publicación:

Implementación del debate como estrategia didáctica para favorecer la competencia comunicativa en estudiantes de quinto grado.

Resumen

The following research implements debate as a didactic strategy to improve communicative competence in fifth-grade students in a public educational institution. This study has a quantitative approach and is designed with the research-action method. This research was divided into 3 phases. The diagnosis, implementation, and results analysis were applied to 27 participants. Where in the first phase an entrance test was implemented to know the opinions of the students when speaking or expressing their ideas in public, knowing this information during the second phase 9 workshops were developed that worked on topics related to the debate, which would be analyzed in the practical part during the third phase, in this certain criteria were taken into account, such as the organization, synthesis capacity and persuasion of the participants during each debate. It was evidenced that the students made adequate use of the language and domain of assigned topics. As has been observed, the students achieved good management of communicative competence through the workshops carried out in this way, the students realized the importance of this competence in different aspects of their lives. The debate as a didactic strategy, not only improves communicative competence but also helps to develop critical thinking that will favor other aspects in the same way, the academic one of them.