The method of bilingual partial immersion teaching and the method of intensification for the teaching of English in general and specific skills in sixth grade students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33539/consensus.2017.v22n1.992Keywords:
General abilities, specific abilities, bilingualism, bilingual partial immersion method, second language intensifying teaching-learning method.Abstract
The study seeks to determine the effects that two training programs types for foreign
language as represented by the partial immersion bilingual program to a program of
bilingual education intensification of a second language have on the development of
student cognitive abilities,. The study has been carried out with 130 students in the sixth
grade of elementary school. The results show global differences in the general and specific
abilities of the evaluated student with a better performance of the group that studies
with a methodology of intensification. The study distinguishes differences in the areas of
attention and concentration, adaptation, reading accuracy, spelling phonics, arithmetic
and mathematical problem solving, standing out comparatively higher scoring students
who study following a method of intensification. The areas that show no differences are
the reason reading comprehension, reading speed and visual and regulated spelling.
The research leads to value the importance of teaching a second language from primary
education through the use of communicative methodologies that respect the consolidation
of the mother language in learning and encourage the linkage with a second language in a
utilitarian, practical and experiential way.
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