Active teaching techniques for the development of communicative competences in basic education

Abstract

Active teaching techniques maintain a balance in the educational process because they improve the concretion of knowledge, on the other hand, communication skills are essential for the development of the human being in all its contexts, handling verbal and non-verbal aspects in specific situations. The problem identified is that the use of active teaching techniques applied to students of Basic General Education, together with the development of communication skills, has not yet been estimated. The objective is to evaluate the use of active teaching techniques in the development of communication skills of basic education students. The hypothesis that sustains that the use of active learning techniques increases the development of communication skills in students of Basic general education is proposed. The quantitative methodology has been used, since quantifiable data have been obtained, carried out on the subjects under study, in this case the 33 students of the sixth grade A, through a pre-test, consecutively the active teaching techniques were reinforced and applied, Subsequently, a post test was carried out, in the case of the 5 teachers, the application of active teaching techniques and the knowledge of their relationship with communication skills were evaluated. The results obtained show that the value of Student's T statistic is 0.000, less than 0.05; therefore, the proposed hypothesis is accepted, to verify the impact of the intervention, the Cohen's D statistic was used, obtaining a value of d=0.59, thus the intervention has an impact of medium magnitude. It has been concluded by ratifying the importance of the use of active teaching techniques to improve the concretion of knowledge in students in the development of communication skills.

Keywords: Communication skills, development, teaching, active techniques, test.