“IMPLEMENTATION OF A PROTOCOL FOR GUIDANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE UTM BOTANICAL GARDEN PERIOD 2015-2016, TO STRENGTHEN THE SKILLS OF SPEAKING AND LISTENING

Abstract

The present research was directed to the design and implementation of a protocol guidance in English in the UTM Botanical Garden period 2015-2016 to strengthen the skills of speaking and listening. The teaching of these skills is essential for English language acquisition, being closely interrelated as well as a fundamental part of linguistic expression. However, in the teaching of foreign languages, speaking and listening practice, both extra- and intra classroom, are usually something rare or poorly reinforced. The skills of reading and writing in the new language are often the points of interest of teachers or students, which leave aside the real world skills that are so valuable for language fluency. And that is why due to lack of practice around the skills of listening and speaking in the students of the Languages and Linguistics Major, there is the need to establish a strategy that will serve to help this task. Therefore the design and implementation of a bilingual protocol guide at the Botanical Garden of the UTM is an appropriate proposal because it involves some keys to improving the aforementioned skills. Thus, with the completion of this community work, students, teachers, members of the ecological area and the general public have benefited from the implementation of the proposal that not only encourages learning but also reinforces ecotourism.