General rules of emphasis in eighth grade Distance Education in the community Dipina, Waslala, 2016

Abstract

This research was carried out at the "Isabel Amador" school, located in the community of central Dipina, from the city of Waslala, Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Coast (RACCN). The problem affecting the application of general rules of accentuation in eighth grade of distance education have been identified, which includes: the design of an action plan to facilitate learning, the application of general rules of accentuation and the implementation of innovative methodological strategies. The population was of 40 students plus 2 researchers and the sample, 20 teachers. The instruments used were interviews and documentary review of the different strategies implemented: analysis and word puzzle, pie and study circles.

We verified the negative factors that affects the students, such as lack of interest and habits of reading-writing, therefore, this causes the absence of practicing the general rules of accentuation. The student population presents difficulties in all the items that was evaluated and that are related to difficulties in the conceptualization of oxytone words, paroxytone words, proparoxytone and propoparoxytone words, and this is demonstrated with a disapproved percentage of 90% at the beginning (diagnostic) and a decrease of 15% at the end of the investigation. As for teachers, we checked the absence of the use of innovative strategies.