Reinterpretación del currículo sugerido para un programa ELT en la escuela rural IED Quiba Alta

Abstract

Colombian education has made attempts to reach a bilingual country, starting by creating strategies, so students can improve their results in this subject and get a proper result on reports of the ICFES, Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education (Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento y Evaluación de la Educación Superior by its name in Spanish). However, according to the analysis of Benavides (2021), these strategies have not been enough to help students to get a good outcome considering the scale given by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) since 87% of secondary students had a Level A, meaning they are not able to communicate effectively. Colombian Ministry of Education has worked towards the construction of a curriculum that solves all the needs students have to cover to be able to communicate their ideas in a foreign language. In 2016, they published a study conducted by experts in English teaching that gave as result a Suggested Curriculum. It is a tool that helps teachers to elaborate their programs and lessons according to the expectations published by the Government. This study aims to adapt the Suggested Curriculum for students in the third cycle, which includes the sixth and seventh grades, being mindful of the model they follow, and the hours they have in English classes to strengthen their use of the English language.