Quality teaching with minimal resources: integrating warmers into chilean EFL teachers practices

Abstract

The research study intends to optimize the pedagogical competences of the teachers of English who participated, by integrating motivational strategies at the beginning of class in order to strengthen and encourage a meaningful and inspiring learning environment to acquire a second foreign language. The research design implemented is quasi-experimental from which samples were taken from a population of teachers, male and female, between the ages of 35 and 50 years old with more than ten years of classroom experience and who work in semi-private schools in Santiago, La Serena and Concepción with the first year of high school´s students. The results obtained and further analyzed indicate that teachers who undergo the specific training on motivational strategies to perform effective warm-ups are capable of enhancing their teaching skills, achieving a more efficient and empowered practice.