Students’ Beliefs About Their English Class: Exploring New Voices in a National Discussion
The main objective of this study was to identify 6th to 11th grade students’ beliefs about their English class in a public institution in Armenia, Colombia. By means of interviews, drawings, and focus groups with 30 students, four beliefs were established. It was found that students’ beliefs are att...
- Autores:
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Villarreal Suarez, Jessica
Muñoz Taborda, Jully Vanessa
Perdomo Santacruz, Jorge Mario
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66922
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66922
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67950/
- Palabra clave:
- 37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Beliefs
classroom environment
English language learners
qualitative research
ambiente del salón de clases
creencias
estudiantes de inglés
investigación cualitativa
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | The main objective of this study was to identify 6th to 11th grade students’ beliefs about their English class in a public institution in Armenia, Colombia. By means of interviews, drawings, and focus groups with 30 students, four beliefs were established. It was found that students’ beliefs are attached to the experiences they have lived in their English class; the discipline, the monotony, the lack of interesting material, and the impact of foreign language learning are the main related aspects. Implications and recommendations for further research are proposed based on the necessity of giving students a voice in the development of current national policies of language learning and also in the debate about the effectiveness of these policies and their impact inside schools. |
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