Exploring students’ perceptions about the use of songs in english classes in third grade of a junior highschool
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2015-02
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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"Teaching English in secondary school has been one of the most relevant challenges in
my teaching experience. I have been an English teacher in different levels. I have taught
both High school and University students. However, I have faced many problems when
teaching English in Junior High school. The reasons may be because of the different factors
that influence students at this stage. Ellis, (2003) mentions that “the ways in which
learners differ are potentially infinite as they reflect the whole range of variables related
to the cognitive, affective, and social aspects of a human being” (p. 35). He names those
factors as “immutable”, those that are fixed such as age and “mutable” those that are
variable such as motivation (ibid). Those two factors are relevant to consider when
teaching English in Junior High school. On one hand, Brown (2001) states that teenagers live a stage of “transition,
confusion, self-consciousness, growing, and changing bodies and minds” (p. 65). Due to
the different changes in this stage of transitions, students might be affected physically,
psychologically or affectively. For this reason, Junior High school students may experience
negative attitudes or lack of motivation."
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