The purpose of this study is to analyze how EFL reading is taught in foreign language coursebooks in Catalonia., Two strategies to make reading more effective are presented: 1) Questioning strategy where questions are ...

Textbooks are still predominant in the English Language Teaching context in Catalonia. They are expected to support learners' process to acquire a foreign language, especially, to support learners to become communicative ...

This research is a case study that has as its main objective to discover and analyse the topics that appear in storybooks for English learning. The study has been carried out through the analysis of the storybooks used in ...

Reading is considered one of the most important skills in the process of learning a second language because it exposes students to a wide range of vocabulary and grammar. This study aims at exploring how reading approaches ...

The present work aims to make visible art as a tool for awakening and conducting any kind of learning. In this case, to promote the understanding of a second language (English) in the early childhood education (3-6 years ...

Drama play is considered to strengthen the bond between thought and expression in language and it provides suprasegmental and paralinguistics features. However, teachers still do not use it properly in their English ...

Recently, an increasing number of schools in Catalunya has bet on increasing the amount of time students spend in contact with the foreign language through the CLIL approach. The present study aims at finding out if it is ...

Storytelling is presented as a cross-curricular, useful, and effective method in the teaching and learning process throughout the second cycle of Early Childhood Education. However, this methodology is particularly important ...

In the last few years, the introduction of English as a second language into Infant Education in Catalan schools has experienced an important growth. A principal reason is because of the belief that young children are ...

The main aims of this study are to describe and analyze TPRS methodology, to identify the aspects implicated in comprehensible input for very young learners and to know the researcher’s point of view regarding the topic. ...