Language, in the world, is the essential means of communication, both for intellectual and for social messages. It is also an extremely complex and challenging system of rules and principles, which nevertheless children and young people acquire with apparent ease with great rapidity. The learning of any language, its nature, function and development, can provide insight into human modes of thought and social interaction.
             Based on what I have stated above, I consider that, within this modern world, the learning of English plays an important role in the development as well as in the improvement of the students' educational training. In this regard, it is highly important to think over the way we can help out to its enhancement and growth.
             The following study is concerned with the teaching of English in Private schools of El Alto, and the main purpose is to present a general illustration about the level of effectiveness students of the 4th secondary level attain in the English language learning.
             Founded on my own experience, I consider worth saying that through the time I have been teaching English, I have noticed the deficient outcomes that a great number of students have been obtaining year after year. This fact made me wonder about the way I had been teaching the language and how my students were acquiring it.
             After having questioned myself I decided to conduct a previous survey (March, 2001) in three private schools of El Alto. I got surprised and upset with the results it released. A great deal of students considered the teaching of English a waste of time. The response illustrated clearly that there might be various reasons why most of the students revealed such negative attitude towards the language.
             The survey was also valuable to perceive that lots of students are aware of the limited knowledge they acquire and hint that during the time they were expected to learn the language, they have simply been repeating the s...