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SECOND LANGUAGE IN SCHOOL

In this blog I am going to talk about teaching a second language in primary education and also how it goes as the time pass. I am going to talk about this because I was doing my placement at Howell’s School teaching Spanish. I started just in primary education, but they want to showed me how they teach Spanish in the different courses and how the pupils begin being better on it until they have their A level’s. they point to factors that influence L2 transfer motivation, and this is important in several ways. ( James, M.A., 2012), for the beginning, this is the main ingredient. The teacher must be a person who shows and offers confidence and motivation to the rest of the students. The foreign language is something new for the students, it is not a subject like mathematics or their mother tongue, which they practice every day, the subject of a foreign language, is something completely unknown to them, so we must start easily, simple and welcoming, so that the students are not bor...
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ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE (EAL).

The National Association of Language Development, 2012, in the Curriculum is the national subject association for English as an Additional Language which defines it like; Children who speak English as an Additional Language (EAL) come from home environments where the dominant language is not English but who are nonetheless educated in English, the majority language. Children who speak English as an Additional Language (EAL) come from home environments where the dominant language is not English but who are nonetheless educated in English, the majority language. The percentage of pupils in English schools aged 5-16 who are recorded as EAL has more than doubled from 7.6% in 1997 to 16.2% in 2013. Just over a million of pupils in England are classified as speaking English as an additional language (NALDIC, 2013). there are different policy about EAL in the Umited Kingdom: The rich diversity of England´s culture, society and language has involved over centuries. This has reflec...
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Teaching a second language with music and games in primary education.

Several studies have revealed evidence of a relation between music and language. Both language and music have perceptually discrete elements organized into hierarchically structured sequences ( Mokari, P.G. and Werner, S., 2018; Patel 2003; Sloboda 1985). In this blog I propose to talk about the use of music and games for learning a second language in school in primary education. Previously, I told you that I did my placement at Howell's School. I have been learning how to give my mother tongue, Spanish, that is, a second language for the students. first of all, a curious fact that seemed to me at school, is that in primary education, they give as a second language Spanish and French, but only give half an hour a week. This schedule makes the students not able to learn much in the sense of grammar or as in a normal class perhaps. Since it is such a short time, the teacher is also not allowed to send exercises so that the students are doing so as not to lose what they have learned....
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CROSS-CURRICULAR TEACHING.

“Cross-curricular learning promotes authenticity in teaching and learning. Authentic learning experiences involve adult and child leaners together.” (Driscoll, Lambirth and Roden, 2015. p. 274). We are living in a world that it is in a continue change where social, instructive and educational functions are three key points in the life and with those functions is how we are going to create the women and the men from the future. On these years the education had changed a lot as the people is trying to ‘create’ people more solidarized, open minds, actives, conscious of their rights, etc. In this case, the education in the XXI century, must face three basic objectives where the Themes or Cross cutting theme have to develop (Gonzalez Lucini, 1993): 1.        First is to awake the pupil’s illusion. That means, the illusion of live the life, fight for something positive and for something that you really want to have and to get in a future. 2.  ...
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WHAT IS THE VALUE OF CREATIVITY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION?

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The creativity is still something that does not have one only definition because is something general and too big for defined in a sentence. There is something that I would like to add, that it is not the same for example, the creativity that we use in an educational way than the one that for example an engineer need to use to create something or look for a solution. In this case I am going to focused in the educational creativity and I am going to explain if it is important and the value of it in a primary school class. First of all I would say that creativity is the base of education, not just in primary, I would say from the Early Years until university studies. A creative person means new ideas about a theme, means new studies and new ideas about something. In the educational way, there is something that I really like and I will try to do as much as I can in my future, and is just ask the children a question about something that we are talking about and listen to the answer...
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SHOULD WE STUDY WITH MUSIC?

“Unless students find ways to come up with own musical ideas, they will have no way of expressing themselves in musical thought and action”. (Woodford, 1996). Music taught is drawn from Western tonal music. (Carlos et al, 2016). Classical music: Never became a long lasting. (Pedro De Bruydiere) . "Every music can be relaxing but did not produce 'super results' or not having any influence." (Wagner and Tilney)  Did you ask yourself any time what should be this world without music? I did, and I cannot imagine this world without music, basically because I am a person which is the whole time with music 24/7. I am that kind of person that puts music to everything, to every moment, to everyone… for me it tells me a lot of things, for example, how you feel. Every type of music means different things, different kinds of moods. A song could tell you lots of things besides the lyrics that it is another message but, the important thing is that the rhythm, the m...
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MINDFULNESS AS A SUBJECT IN PRIMARY EDUCATION?

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What is mindfulness? Knowing directly what is going on inside and outside ourselves, moment by moment.  (Williams, 2018). Mindfulness it is a way to think that now a day is having more contact with the education. People could probably think that it would not work with the pupils at all because it is something that the global think of it is to get concentrate and think on yourself in silence. Mindfulness could surprise us. In my case, I thought that mindfulness would not work with the children because it is something difficult to try with a whole class or with a group of children, but as I saw it, I was completely wrong. Last summer, in 2018, I went to a volunteering for a month in Cambodia, I was being an instructor with an NGO in a summer camp with children from 3 to 17 years old. Incidentally, most of the blogs that I will write, my experience will be include in Cambodia and some placements that I had in a school in Spain two years ago with pupils from 0 to 5 years ol...
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