Teachers and students´ perceptions of teaching English in small classes in Ecuador

Abstract

The topic of this research Teachers and students´ perceptions of teaching English in small classes in Ecuador has the purpose to discover teachers and students’ perceptions of teaching and learning English in small classes. This study answered the questioning of how the number of students influence the learning process, the interaction, the strategies to be used, and the benefits teacher and students from small classes have in a private high school in Quito - Ecuador as a specific case. Surveys to teachers and students were applied, as well as observations of classes with a few students were carried out in the field research. This analysis proved that a small English as a foreign language class could be beneficial and productive for teaching - learning process. This research enabled to show that a limited number of students in a class eases the teaching and learning process of English as a foreign language