Increasing Fourth Grade Students’ Engagement through Multimodal Resources in a Public EFL Classroom

ABSTRACT: This action research study presents the incorporation of multimodal resources into the flow of an EFL classroom as a means to increase students’ engagement. Research teacher’s journal and students’ self-reports on behavioral, emotional, agentic, and cognitive components of engagement construct were analyzed. Results show that multimodal resources, especially those related to sounds and rhythm, contributed to increased engagement. Also, emotional disengagement was associated with low levels of behavioral and cognitive disengagement. Finally, a learning environment was characterized as enabling students’ understanding and learning; where a teacher knows how to teach, explain, and listen; and which have fun activities, good class relationships and group work.

• Autores: Vanegas Torres, Sara
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/34796
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10495/34796
• Palabra clave: Action research; Public schools; Enseñanza pública; English as a foreign language; English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers; Learning environment; Entornos de aprendizaje; Inglés como lengua extranjera; Investigación accion; Multimodalidad; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000722; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108801; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept9414
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/