EFL motivation in primary school students : American films to enhance motivation for EFL learning at school.
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2015
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The following research accounted on how authentic resources, specifically films, motivate more than traditional resources for FL learning. Thus, the origin of the investigation is the point of departure of every learning process: motivation. The context of this study is primary school education, particularly chosen because as they start their education in the language, the objective is that they do not think of English as a school subject rather of how it should be taken, as a language. For the same reason, one of the objectives was exposing students to the FL communicatively so as to present it as it is in real life.
The means by which English was presented to students attempted to change the traditional resource of the textbook to films which they were interested in. In this regard, the language would be learned because it was more appealing and even considered as fun rather than an obligation because it was school. Even though the fact of them to be entertained was at all the end, the fact that they took it as that helped the investigation in the sense that there were more possibilities that they learned the language incidentally rather than intentionally which is the regular and imposed manner of learning at school.
In the end, the main objective of the investigation was to prove that when learners are motivated learning comes without, or at least with fewer, complications since they are interested in what they are being exposed to. In this sense, the methodology would be in the first place simulating what occurs in reality with the manner language is conveyed, that is, by communicating we learn language. Though the school setting cannot be compared to real life instances at least it can be simulated, and what better than doing it with encouraging resources as films.The following research accounted on how authentic resources, specifically films, motivate more than traditional resources for FL learning. Thus, the origin of the investigation is the point of departure of every learning process: motivation. The context of this study is primary school education, particularly chosen because as they start their education in the language, the objective is that they do not think of English as a school subject rather of how it should be taken, as a language. For the same reason, one of the objectives was exposing students to the FL communicatively so as to present it as it is in real life.
The means by which English was presented to students attempted to change the traditional resource of the textbook to films which they were interested in. In this regard, the language would be learned because it was more appealing and even considered as fun rather than an obligation because it was school. Even though the fact of them to be entertained was at all the end, the fact that they took it as that helped the investigation in the sense that there were more possibilities that they learned the language incidentally rather than intentionally which is the regular and imposed manner of learning at school.
In the end, the main objective of the investigation was to prove that when learners are motivated learning comes without, or at least with fewer, complications since they are interested in what they are being exposed to. In this sense, the methodology would be in the first place simulating what occurs in reality with the manner language is conveyed, that is, by communicating we learn language. Though the school setting cannot be compared to real life instances at least it can be simulated, and what better than doing it with encouraging resources as films.
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Tesis (Magíster en Lingüística Aplicada al Inglés como Lengua Extranjera)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2015