Methodological factors that affect the development of listening and speaking skills in the students of sixth grade at primary school madre cayetana alberta during the second semester 2015.
The present study covers a general overview of the speaking and listening skill; it also investigates the parameters of effective methods in teaching speaking and listening. Moreover, it introduces some strategies that promote those skills and improves students' proficiency. In this study there was adapted a descriptive methodology of investigation with regard to the requirements of the presents research work. The main objective is identifying the factors that affect the development of both listening and speaking skills. The population is composed of sixth grade students and teacher at primary school Madre Cayetana Alberta Pureza de Maria. The most significant findings of our research work can be summarized in: first, the teacher explains class in Spanish, he only uses textbook as a workbook, and he uses inappropriate the few strategies; second, most of the students are not able to use common expressions in class, They are not demanded to speak English during the class, most of the students have not developed the English Speaking skills due to the few strategies applied by the teacher. However, during our investigation we have encountered some difficulties in relationship to the lack of teachers in service training in oral expression, the limited time which is allocated to the oral expression course, the lack of application of the strategies and developments that characterize the teaching of the speaking and listening skill. On the whole, our research brought many benefits to the students and teachers of primary school Madre Cayetana Alberta.