Communicative approach in the development of oral skills in english

In Ecuador, despite educational reforms, the teaching strategies used for teaching English as a foreign language have not been sufficient to solve the existing problems. This article examines the communicative approach in English language learning, emphasizing the importance of oral skills and aimed at developing a strategy consisting of a set of actions to improve oral communication. For this qualitative research, methods such as analysis-synthesis and inductive-deductive with a descriptive-documentary approach were used. The study used instruments such as interviews and classroom observation cards for data collection and culminated with a socialization workshop to evaluate the proposal. The population consisted of 200 students and the sample consisted of 50 first year BGU students and six English teachers. Among the results obtained, it is highlighted that teachers recognize the importance of using different strategies to motivate students, the need to use the context to develop communication. The research concludes that the communicative approach is essential for the effective development of oral skills in English by favoring exchange through communicative functions and meaningful classroom tasks such as the actions proposed in this research.