New perspectives in Teaching English in Primary School: an Intercultural Approach

ORDEN ALFABÉTICO. BARBONI, SILVANA; BEACON, GRISELDA; PORTO, MELINA

Buenos Aires

Encuentro; The Universidad de Belgrano English Language Roundtable; 2007

Universidad de Belgrano

This paper describes how we developed an ELT curriculum design for primary school with an intercultural perspective for the context of the Province of Buenos Aires in Spanish-speaking Argentina in Latin America. This was done through the ways in which its components were organized and developed. Our task as curriculum developers was to find ways in which this perspective was both explicitly and implicitly stated in the document. On the one hand, explicit information was conveyed with reference to intercultural issues in the introductory part, the objectives, the content, and the teaching strategies presented. On the other hand, there was an implicit treatment of diversity in classroom practices in terms of the ways in which children are expected to learn and teachers are expected to teach from the point of view of a process based methodology.