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Learning English as a foreign language : eliciting young Chilean children’s views

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Tabali, Pía (2019) Learning English as a foreign language : eliciting young Chilean children’s views. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

The teaching and learning of English has become a major issue around the globe. In light of the current reality, many countries have decided to include within their school policies the teaching of English as a subject from an early age (Pinter, 2006; Kolb, 2007). But so far only a limited amount of research has been conducted in primary English contexts and specifically, little is known about how young learners perceive English in the curriculum, what they think about it, what are the things they prefer when learning and those aspects children are not really fond of. Little research regarding these issues has been conducted with children (Kolb, 2007) overall. This longitudinal study attempts to implement an intervention in two schools in Chile with 7-8-year-old children with the aim to discover to what extent and how children could reflect about the ways they learn and are taught English in primary school in Chile. The use of different participatory activities was employed as a way to encourage children to reflect about learning English. The data drawn from this study revealed that children as young as seven and eight years old were very enthusiastic and were able to clearly reflect on their own processes to learn English as well as to talk about the importance of English for them. During my fieldwork, I designed active learning tools for collecting data. This study provided great contributions to adding empirical insights relating to issues underlying researching with children. Furthermore, this study also provides a general understanding of how young learners make sense of learning English the primary level in Chile. Lastly, the implications of this study can helped inform current practice for teachers and a point of start for developing appropriate pedagogies for young learners of English in Chile.

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PE English
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Chile -- Foreign speakers, Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching (Elementary), Language acquisition -- Age factors
Official Date: 2019
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2019UNSPECIFIED
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Centre for Applied Linguistics
Thesis Type: PhD
Publication Status: Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: Pinter, Annamaria ; Smith, Richard (Reader in linguistics)
Format of File: pdf
Extent: 215 leaves : illustrations (some colour)
Language: eng

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