Methodological strategies and techniques implemented by teachers in the teaching-learning process of English in Spanish-speaking students

This article, a research product, analyzes and reflects on the impact of the methodological strategies and techniques implemented by elementary school teachers in an official educational institution in Barranquilla (Colombia), regarding the teaching-learning process of the English language in Spanish-speaking students. The theoretical review of the literature is based on the contemporary methods of active pedagogy, the study is descriptive, from a rationalist epistemological approach and a complementary paradigm. Data collection was based on non-participant observation directed to teachers and a survey applied to students. The results show that in the development of the pedagogical processes, teachers apply conventional methods, so it is concluded that teacher qualification is necessary to improve the educational processes of English language teaching in elementary school students with innovative didactic mediations that favour the learning environment and the active participation of students, the use of authentic didactic materials, and the articulation of technological resources that become a tool that enhances the teaching and learning process at all levels for the development of communicative competencies in the English language.