Nepbe teacher’s opinions about working with or without textbooks in a communicative socio-cultural approach context: a case study
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2014-04
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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"This thesis reports on a quantitative and qualitative study concerning NEPBE (National English Program in Basic Education) teachers’ opinions about working with or without textbooks in a communicative socio-cultural approach context. NEPBE is based on the social practice of the language. The communicative actions have to be accomplished in concrete situations besides the production and interpretation of oral and written texts. For that reason, there are appropriate teaching-learning methods in the socio-cultural approach; such as, the communicative method, where in most cases teachers will use authentic materials, communicative language use, real situations, among other, in order to motivate students. According to the aims of the NEPBE, teachers could feel that textbooks may restrict negatively in the teaching process. This study was carried out in one of the biggest cities in central Mexico where the NEPBE program has been piloted in different public elementary schools. The schools’ characteristics are very similar; in most cases there is a large population of students that might complicate the English learning-teaching process. The research data were collected via open-ended questionnaire and focus groups. Thus this research is qualitative because it is mainly focused on teachers’ opinions".
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