Linares de Sermeño, Guadalupe DelurdyMonterroza Avalos, Evelin NataliDíaz Avalos, Jonathan LeonelGarcía Rivas, Carmina YeceniaGómez Martínez, José RobertoLandaverde Figueroa, Susi Licet2024-02-152024-02-152009-12-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14492/22102This research study focuses on the problems and the effects on seventh graders caused by the poor teaching of English at public elementary school levels. This work presents the results of a whole research process to evaluate the necessity to incorporate the teaching of English in Salvadorian public elementary schools to help junior high school students overcome their English learning deficiencies.In order to find out information about the previously mentioned situation, researchers chose different schools of the urban area of Santa Ana where researchers observed and studied different variables concerning seventh graders and seventh grade teachers. Besides studying the variables related to the students, researchers also evaluated the current junior high school English teaching curriculum being used for teaching English to junior high school students.es-SVPublic elementary schoolenglish languageel salvador420Thesis