Development of the speaking skills in third year students of “Bachillerato Superior” at Colegio Nacional Ingapirca through the production and use of a guidebook for tourism for the Ingapirca archaeological complex

Abstract

This work is emphasized on the development of the English speaking skills within the students own context. It is important for students to experience the new language inside authentic situations since they become motivated to learn about their own culture and in that way they might expand their linguistic abilities.

The purpose of this project is focused on providing students guidance for improving the speaking skills by the use of a touristic guidebook about Ingapirca. This thesis will seek to help students to familiarize with touristic terms in order to help scholars to improve their communicative competence as a source of Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Thus, allowing EFL students of the Parish of Ingapirca to learn about their own history and culture is an effective way for arousing their interest to learn. As a result, learners would be eager to transfer their existent knowledge about the Ingapirca Ruins from the native language into the foreign language.