Speak Up! Fostering Oral Communication in the English Classroom Through Dialogic Musical Meetings

• 作者: Judit Palencia Gutiérrez
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: Second Language Acquisition oral COMPETENCE English instruction DIALOGIC learning
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（4）
• 页码范围: 143-151
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: H

摘要

This study, carried out in Spain in 2016, proposes new dialogical pedagogy techniques based on deeply rooted in constructivism to improve the level of English education in Spanish high schools. Spain is the second worst country in the European Union when it comes to English command, especially with regards to oral output, as a consequence of several factors, such as the deficient preparation of teachers, cuts in the education budget or dubbed films. This paper will present the outcomes of a Second Language Acquisition innovation project carried out in the North of Spain. After analyzing data collected to study their low command of the language, the participants, more than 20 students from the Spanish equivalent for US high school 10th grade, performed tasks that prepared them with insight and training to then participate in a musical meeting, where they, without the intervention of the teacher, listened to English music and discussed in the targeted language about some songs and their lyrics. These meetings were recorded to posteriori analysis with the students.