Selective Use of the Mother Tongue to Enhance Students’ English Learning Processes...Beyond the Same Assumptions
This article reports the results of an action-research project that examines enhancing students’ English learning processes through the selective use of their mother tongues with the aim of overcoming their reluctant attitudes toward learning English in the classroom. This study involves forty ninth...
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doaj-070bf901de534c1493d67066fbf589ac2020-11-25T00:35:56ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902014-04-01161137151http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v16n1.38661Selective Use of the Mother Tongue to Enhance Students’ English Learning Processes...Beyond the Same AssumptionsLuis Fernando Cuartas Alvarez0Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, ColombiaThis article reports the results of an action-research project that examines enhancing students’ English learning processes through the selective use of their mother tongues with the aim of overcoming their reluctant attitudes toward learning English in the classroom. This study involves forty ninth-graders from an all-girls public school in Medellin, Colombia. The data gathered included field notes, questionnaires, and participants’ focus group interviews. The findings show that the mother tongue plays an important role in students’ English learning processes by fostering students’ affective, motivational, cognitive, and attitudinal aspects. Thus, the mother tongue serves as the foothold for further advances in learning English when used selectively.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/38661/44503English as a foreign languagelanguage learningmother tongueselective use of mother tongue |
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Selective Use of the Mother Tongue to Enhance Students’ English Learning Processes...Beyond the Same Assumptions |
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Selective Use of the Mother Tongue to Enhance Students’ English Learning Processes...Beyond the Same Assumptions |
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Selective Use of the Mother Tongue to Enhance Students’ English Learning Processes...Beyond the Same Assumptions |
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Selective Use of the Mother Tongue to Enhance Students’ English Learning Processes...Beyond the Same Assumptions |
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Selective Use of the Mother Tongue to Enhance Students’ English Learning Processes...Beyond the Same Assumptions |
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selective use of the mother tongue to enhance students’ english learning processes...beyond the same assumptions |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
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Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development |
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This article reports the results of an action-research project that examines enhancing students’ English learning processes through the selective use of their mother tongues with the aim of overcoming their reluctant attitudes toward learning English in the classroom. This study involves forty ninth-graders from an all-girls public school in Medellin, Colombia. The data gathered included field notes, questionnaires, and participants’ focus group interviews. The findings show that the mother tongue plays an important role in students’ English learning processes by fostering students’ affective, motivational, cognitive, and attitudinal aspects. Thus, the mother tongue serves as the foothold for further advances in learning English when used selectively. |
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English as a foreign language language learning mother tongue selective use of mother tongue |
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