Assisting Your Child's Learning in L2 Is Like Teaching Them to Ride a Bike: A Study on Parental Involvement

Autor/inn/en	Castillo, Rigoberto; Camelo Gámez, Linda Catherine
Titel	Assisting Your Child's Learning in L2 Is Like Teaching Them to Ride a Bike: A Study on Parental Involvement
Quelle	In: GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, (2013) 7, S.54-73 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1692-5777
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Parent Participation; English (Second Language); Parent Role; Observation; Interviews; Web Sites; Parents as Teachers; Parent Education; Parent Child Relationship; Elementary School Students; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Homework; Parent Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Communication Strategies; Action Research; Colombia (Bogota) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Elternmitwirkung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Parental role; Elternrolle; Beobachtung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Web-Design; Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Fragebogen; Hausaufgabe; Elternverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Kommunikationsstrategie; Projektforschung
Abstract	This article deals with parental involvement as a strategy to assist young learners in their efforts to learn an L2. It discusses an 18-month experience involving ten young learners, their parents, and teachers, in the development of another language (L2). The parents had expressed that they were unable to support their children's development in L2 because they "did not know English." Classroom observations, analysis of class work, and interviews motivated the authors to pursue this inquiry. The pedagogical innovation consisted of educating parents in what it means to learn an L2, and in training them and their children to tackle assignments. A website was also developed to support this endeavor. The results suggest a positive change in the home environment as a place to learn with parental engagement. The data from this study suggest that training the parents not only facilitated children's L2 study but contributed to their literacy development as well. The evidence also indicates that the quality of communication between children and parents, the organization of assignments, as well as the quality of written expression improved. When assisting one's child to learn an L2, fun is as important as it is in learning to ride a bike. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01