The role of comprehensible input in fostering speaking turn-taking with first grade students

Abstract

One of the most common problems in English classes is making students speak, even when the most common way to communicate with others is by speaking. This is reflected on 1st”D” students of the Secondary School “Benjamin Hernandez”, for whom is difficult to interact with their partners due that they do not count with enough vocabulary to comprehend instructions or expressing ideas, but also because they have problems to interact with others in general, even in their mother tongue. This represents a problem for a good development in the English classes, but also for their own social and human development, as communication is the key of social interaction; especially in a society that is recovering itself from the impact that COVID-19 and the pandemic left on people and the way they communicate.