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- Title
"My theory is intact; however …": Reflections on Teaching Spanish to Fifth Graders.
- Authors
Brooks, Frank B.
- Abstract
The article relates the author's observations about teaching Spanish to fifth-graders as part of an elementary school's afternoon enrichment program. According to the author his one-semester experience of teaching Spanish to fifth-graders was transformative for it makes him to reconsider the nature of what he now considers to be the rather sanitized foreign language methods courses in undergraduate teacher-preparation programs. He also discusses some ways that he intends to change his approach to the foreign language methods course, simultaneously raising questions and making observations about classroom practices.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE experience approach in education; LANGUAGE teachers; FOREIGN language education; LANGUAGE &; education; LANGUAGE &; languages; SPANISH language; FIFTH grade (Education); ELEMENTARY education; TEACHING
- Publication
Foreign Language Annals, 2002, Vol 35, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0015-718X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1944-9720.2002.tb01833.x