Lady Johanna Tapias Listening preschoolers

CONTENT CONTEXTUALIZED LISTENING MATERIAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN PRESCHOOLERS EFL LEARNING PROCESS

In this project we want to report on a research pedagogical experiences we will carry out in a preschool’s classroom in a public state school during a year. As these students are real beginners in the process of learning English as a foreign language we attempt to see what would be the advances in the EFL classroom when teaching English following the natural language learning process that we follow with our first language acquisition process. It is important to mention that we do not pretend our students to follow exactly the same process in the EFL learning process but to look for a proper sequence, tasks and listening input in which students could learn English more easily and avoid the anxiety and frustration when they are asked to do something they are not able to do yet. To do so, we are going to design, adopt, and adapt listening materials and tasks that can allow these pre-schoolers to have a natural EFL learning process.

During our last experience teaching preschoolers we could face a lot of difficult classes were we did not know even how to teach them because we had been trained to teach primary or secondary students but never preschoolers. Another problem we had was when looking for material to teach them as mainly that material was created to teach in bilingual schools or in English spoken countries but not for pre-schoolers from a public school were they are just exposed to English class no more than two hours per week, what of course is not enough for them to have a process as a bilingual school pre-schooler.

Therefore, this would be our research question, sub-question and objectives:

Research question

What contributions can be presented in pre-schoolers EFL learning process when teaching through content contextualized listening material?

Research sub-question

How does listening input as first step take place in preschoolers English as foreign language learning process?

Research objectives

To analyse what contributions can be presented in preschoolers EFL learning process when teaching through content contextualized listening material.

To document  how listening input ,as first step, takes place in English language learning process of pre-schoolers