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T1 Preventing homophobia through English in year 6 of primary education
A1 González, Alejandro
K1 ESL
K1 Primary education
K1 Diversity
K1 Values
K1 Bilingualism
K1 Homophobia
K1 Educación primaria
K1 Diversidad
K1 Valores
K1 Bilingüismo
K1 Homofobia
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB Homophobia is the most common hate crime in our current society and it also exists in the schools. The Spanisheducational system is sensitive to this issue: the law recognizes affective-sexual diversity and highlights theimportance of overcoming sexist behaviour, so that the students learn to respect and value diversity. There isalso homophobic bullying in the last years of Primary education, such as the group of students this projectfocuses on: twenty-seven sixth graders who study in a bilingual state school located in a working class area ofMadrid. Given that this school runs a bilingual program, the objective of this action research project is double:both linguistic and attitudinal: to improve the students’ linguistic skills in the target language (English) whilecarrying out cross-curricular activities referred to the prevention of homophobia and acceptance of diversity.The results show that homophobic attitudes register a lower acceptance from the group of students at the end ofthe project, which also demonstrates that a foreign language can be used to teach values effectively.Keywords: homophobia, bilingualism, values, diversity, primary education, ESL.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá
SN 1989-0796
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25340
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25340
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024