Description of the English Learning and Teaching Process with a Curriculum Deficit at Gimnasio Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza.

Abstract

This research emerges from the reflection on the importance of an English-language curriculum design for the development of English classes and how this can positively or negatively affect the teaching-learning process of the language. Its objective is to describe how the teaching-learning process has been approached from the perspective of the community of the Colegio Gimnasio Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza (stakeholders, teachers, students), having as its main characteristic the absence of an English curriculum. This research constitutes a case study developed from the teacher and coordinator interviews, a questionnaire, a group focal discussion, and some class observations. This description frames two fundamental aspects such as the class methodology and the planning of an English class. Each of them addresses important characteristics such as the use of grammar as a teaching base methodology, the role of teaching materials, planning based on the curriculum, the scope and sequence of content, and timing and pacing in the content application. From it, important findings were obtained such as the recognition of the curriculum as a fundamental basis in the educational process, and how its absence directly affects the teaching-learning process.