Promoting critical cultural awareness in ESL classes through rock and roll music content based workshops

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an action research study based on the implementation of a content based workshop with rock and roll to develop motivation and a critical cultural awareness in ESL teenage students from the private institution Colegio Antares. The data was collected with two surveys to students, class observations and teacher´s diary. The steps suggested by Robinson, (2011) Rock and Roll English Teaching Content-Based Cultural Workshops and language learning. The recommended structure of the workshops is: 1. The beginning: Roots and influences 2. The middle: Decades of change 3. The end: Rock and social distortion in the United States.where they develop a critical thinking about a specific culture, in our case The United States and England.

• Autores: Osorno Palacio, Juan Pablo
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/10711
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/10711
• Palabra clave: Pensamiento crítico; Critical thinking; Enseñanza de idiomas; Language instruction; Inglés - enseñanza; English language - study and teaching; Investigación acción en educación; Action research in education; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept17110; http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept59
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/