Los beneficios de implementar patrones nativos del idioma inglés en el acento y la pronunciación como una herramienta en el mejoramiento del aprendizaje de la pronunciación estándar del inglés en estudiantes de cuarto grado de la escuela Eco Centro B

This project encompasses the benefits of implementing native accent and pronunciation tools with the purpose of improving the English standard pronunciation. This research is carried out at Eco Centro Braulio Carrillo located in San Jerónimo, Moravia, San José. The main objective is to present tools and activities that can be implemented to improve the English accent and pronunciation, determining the benefits that will be contributed to the students. The methodologies implemented to accomplish the objectives of this investigation are based on different instruments applied to collect information, such as a pretest, a Likert scale directed to English teachers, a post-test used to compare results with the pretest, a survey direceted to the students; and finally, a journal to record qualitative aspects.The main results show evidence of interferences and transfers that the mother tongue brings to the foreign language learning process, as well as the different limitations that students show according to the characteristics of the local Costa Rican Spanish language. Also, different activities applied during the research are mentioned, due to the evidence of the improvement of the English accent and pronunciation in the participants after they were implemented.