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T1 Primary teachers` beliefs about teaching English to young learners
T2 Las creencias de los profesores de primaria sobre la enseñanza del inglés
A1 Roothooft, Hanne
K1 Teachers’ beliefs
K1 Attitudes
K1 EFL
K1 Primary education
K1 Creencias de profesores
K1 Actitudes
K1 Inglés como lengua extranjera
K1 Educación Primaria
K1 Ciencias sociales
K1 Educación
K1 Education
K1 Social sciences
AB While there is a growing belief that English shouldbe taught from an early age in order to achievebetter results, little is known about the practices andattitudes of primary school English teachers in Spain.Therefore, a qualitative study based on interviewswith 22 primary school teachers of English wascarried out in order to investigate teachers’ beliefsabout teaching methodology, the use of group workand the use of the mother tongue. It was found thatall the teachers believe in following a communicativeapproach which focuses mainly on speakingand listening and in which the explicit teaching ofgrammar plays a minor role. Most of the teachersalso claimed to use only the target language in classand to make frequent use of group and pair work.One of the aspects which seems to have influencedthese teachers’ attitudes is their own negativeexperience as language learners in traditional,grammar-based classrooms.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Escuela Universitaria Cardenal Cisneros
SN 1577-0338
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/32341
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/32341
LA spa
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024