Using technology as a teaching tool to develop oral communicative competence in tenth grade students

Abstract

The educational system in Cuba is facing some changes related to the senior high level students’ formation process , that main objective is related to better the Cuban socialist project .Then , professors have a great challenge too, because they have to prepare them to fulfill the objective stated. These students should have the necessary English language skills also they should have a great knowledge about the use of technology for the development of oral communicative competence in fact; they should have an appropriate technical level to face all the challenges of the contemporary world. The Major Paper is oriented to the elaboration of didactic activities that permit the integration of ICTs in the teaching learning process of oral communication in tenth grade students. The dialectic and materialist approach as the general method and some research methods were applied in the investigative process to confirm the real state of the development of oral communicative competence so as to evaluate the proposed didactic activities. The scientific novelty is seen on the proposals activities provided which are characterized by being creative, place the students close to real life situations, varies in complexity and can be applied on different moments of the teaching learning process in the senior high level.