AOLE 2 Silvia Babe Villanueva 2018

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...

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...

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....