Educación Bilingüe a Través de los Centros de Interés

Abstract

Teaching a second language is a constant challenge due to the needs that arise in society as it evolves. Therefore, the implementation of this project was based on improving reading comprehension in English among Grade 11 students at Oxford School, through the implementation of centers of interest an alternative pedagogical method. The research approach was qualitative, with an interpretive scope, applying different research strategies such as interviews to collect information related to the different opinions of various actors in the educational community in the teaching and learning of English and in the same way to know their opinions about the way of teaching students to read and understand texts in English. Likewise, applying participant observation carried out in two stages: observing an English class to identify students' interests and then implementing a class using interest centers based on the information collected in the first stage. The research process began with three interviews with key members of the educational community, which yielded interesting data about the relationship between interest centers and the curriculum, as well as their opinions about teaching and the challenges of teaching how to understand texts without taking into account the level. The opinion of a Chinese student in the same grade was also taken into account to find out her perspective on learning a second language. Through observations, the opinions of the students were taken into account in order to apply it in a class based on centers of interest in a second observation. This yielded interesting results in contrast with traditional English teaching techniques.