Las representaciones sociales en el aprendizaje del inglés en estudiantes de grado octavo. Un estudio de caso

Abstract

Currently, the English language has taken great importance in professional and personal aspects that have triggered society has a particular interest in learning this language. Thus, this research project arose from the interest in the difficulties that appear in the teaching-learning processes of English as a foreign language in eighth-grade students of three different educational institutions, hence it became necessary to analyze the social representations understood from Jodelet’s perspective as the set of ideas that promote the actions within a social group and that in the case of English are influencing the learning of young people. Finally, following the methodological route: establishing the sample, information gathering, analysis, and codification of data and reflections and impressions; allowing to identify those tastes, beliefs, ideologies, and traditions with which the students arrive to the classroom.