EL USO DE JUEGOS DRAMÁTICOS Y DIBUJOS PARA EXPLORAR LAS REPRESENTACIONES SOCIALES DE LOS NIÑOS Y LAS NIÑAS ACERCA DEL APRENDIZAJE Y LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS/THE USE OF PRETEND PLAY AND DRAWINGS TO EXPLORE CHILDREN'S SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT LEARNING AND TEACHING ENGLISH/DESSINS ET DRAMATISATIONS SIMULÉES POUR EXPLORER LES REPRÉSENTATIONS SOCIALES DES ENFANTS SUR L'NSEIGNEMENT ET L'PPRENTISSAGE DE L'NGLAIS

• Published in: Íkala : revista de lenguaje y cultura Vol. 19; no. 3; p. 287
• Main Authors: Múnera, Isabel Cristina Cadavid, García, Juan Carlos Vásquez, Mejía, Juan David Botero
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Medellín Universidad de Antioquía 01.09.2014
• Subjects: Animal migration; Children; Data collection; Education policy; English as a second language learning; Owls; Second language instruction; Colombia; United States > US
• ISSN: 0123-3432; 2145-566X

This research with and for children is a subject that has not been widely explored within the field of foreign language teaching and learning in our context. In this article, the authors have presented the reasons, data collection instruments (drawings and pretend play) and the analysis processes involved in their research project called La mirada de los ninos y las ninas sobre la ensenanza y el aprendizaje del ingles in which they learned about children's social representations concerning learning and teaching English. They finally concluded that research that considers children as participants, not as objects of a study, implies the design and implementation of data collection instruments that coherently respond to the children's affective, cognitive and social characteristics. Children's voices have usually been left out of the decision making processes concerning educational policies, hence more research of this kind is needed in order to include their perspective about the strengths and weaknesses of the educational environment they are immersed in.