El compromiso de la comunidad y el método "Learning by Teaching": Un proyecto piloto para abarcar el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras desde los primeros días

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bilingüismo, participación en la comunidad, aprender-enseñando, educación infantil, monolinguismo

Resumen

El Proyecto Niños y Niñas Bilingües y Biculturales (NNBB), consolidado gracias a la colaboración del centro de educación infantil en la University Child Development Center y el Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, combinó los objetivos de aprendizaje de dos cursos de español avanzado con los beneficios de aprender una segunda lengua a temprana edad. Los estudiantes universitarios desarrollaron un programa de tres semanas de duración centrado en la enseñanza de vocabulario básico, geografía, y aspectos culturales de países de habla hispana para niños angloparlantes y monolingües. El objetivo de este estudio es comprender como el programa en la comunidad afectó a) las percepciones de los estudiantes universitarios sobre su participación en la misma comunidad; y b) las percepciones de los estudiantes universitarios sobre el aprendizaje de lenguas a una edad temprana. Los ensayos personales escritos por los estudiantes indicaron que este programa los incentivó a participar proactivamente en la comunidad y les ayudó a experimentar de primera mano la efectividad en la habilidad que poseen los jóvenes aprendices para adquirir una segunda lengua. Los padres de los niños en el programa indicaron en el cuestionario una disposición sistemática y consistente para implementar un programa de segundas lenguas en el currículo de preescolar en el centro.

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Lucía Osa-Melero, Duquesne University

Dr. Lucía Osa-Melero is an Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Duquesne University. She teaches upper-level Spanish community-engaged courses and co-leads the lower-level Spanish program. She holds a PhD in Language Teaching from Universitat de València (Spain) and an MA and an MAT in Foreign Languages Teaching from the University of Iowa.

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2021-06-23

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Osa-Melero, L. (2021). El compromiso de la comunidad y el método "Learning by Teaching": Un proyecto piloto para abarcar el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras desde los primeros días. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 27(1), 37–57. Recuperado a partir de https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/1324