English teaching strategies to develop communication skills in Autistic children

The purpose of this research was to explore the strategies used by a teacher when teaching English to a child diagnosed with autism spectrum in the process of developing their communication skills, more specifically their production skills (writing and speaking). The study was conducted at the Santa Rosa de Lima Educational Institution, a public institution in the city of Monteria, with a nine-year-old student diagnosed with Mild Autism. Making a complete description of the process of developing communication skills, class observations, semi-structured interviews with the teacher of the group and the autistic student were conducted to learn more about the educational context and their involvement in their learning process of the English language. In the same way, the didactic guides used by the teacher to teach her English classes and the PEI of the institution were reviewed to find out if the educational institution has the necessary inclusive policies for students with diversity, including autism. The findings allowed us to know the strategy used by the teacher to develop the speaking skill in English, which is the use of technologies focused on online games to achieve the development of the student with the speaking skill. In the same way, it was found that the teacher with respect to the writing skill with Autistic student, analyses are reflected where there is a high percentage of isolated vocabulary teaching with what is observed of the student's development with the writing skill, the student is not capable of developing his writing skill according to the necessary characters that the student must have, guiding us from the institutional documents of the English area related to writing skill. To conclude, this research suggests some references to the work of the teacher and that should be considered for the development of the autistic student in the English subject, these suggestions will help to achieve an environment conducive to the development of the student's learning process in English class. This is with the aim of providing more information on the teaching strategies that can be used by English teachers to ensure that students with Autism favorably develop communication skills and that they can be considered for the development of the teaching exercise when required.

• Autores: Piñeres Polo, Natalia Isabel
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad de Córdoba
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional Unicórdoba
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co:ucordoba/7427
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co/handle/ucordoba/7427
• Palabra clave: Estudiante con autismo; Estrategias; Habilidades comunicativas; Habilidades de producción del inglés; Enseñanza-aprendizaje; Docentes de inglés; Implicaciones pedagógicas; Student with autism; strategies; communication skills; English production skills; Teaching-learning; English teachers; Pedagogical implications
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Copyright Universidad de Córdoba, 2023