Mexican english teachers´ narratives about the teaching of english in public primary schools
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2014-04
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"The implementation of English in public primary schools has increased significantly
in different countries around the world. In China, for instance, there were about 8 million
primary school children studying English in 1998, and that number has been increasingly
rapidly, with an increase of one million every year since 1994 (Liu & Gong 2001, p. 36).
Today´s globalized world requires competitive human beings. English represents for many
people their aspirations in quality of education, an economic status, and often a symbol of
power. Thus, some countries have developed and supported policies for maintaining
English in primary schools, as a strong and important language of communication.
Additionally, in the last decades English has become a necessary language of
communication in certain everyday activities. Therefore, English Language Teaching in
primary school aims at preparing students to communicate, not just in school, also in
different situations and purposes of their lives."
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