%K COMMUNICATIVE COURSE DESIGN, TASK BASED LEARNING, EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS
%X The key to this final master task, is recognising that the demands of 21st century on society have a major impact on the teaching profession; and it is our responsibility to help our students meet those demands by keeping ourselves updated with changing trends in methodology, technology and the English language itself.Among the multiple proposals for pedagogical innovation, both at a methodological level, resources and ICTs, which are nowadays introduced into the educational community, this work comes to a study on Educational Robotics and its pedagogical approach, as a tool to develop and enhance all the capacities of the students; specifically, as a resource for teaching English as a foreign language.This project considers such a significant and evident society changes like globalization, which practically demands the mastery of English as foreign language, and the impact of new technologies, directly related to students when it comes to learning, communicating, or performing homework.The teaching of English as a foreign language mainly, in the robotics field, may not have any relation with this environment or discipline and that for the same reason could not reach to interpret or decode that mathematical symbology, but it would be based on applied linguistics. Then it is about creating a specific communicative situation in the English language classroom using English as the only means of communication, contributing to the development of the communicative competence. On this course design, a series of activities will be designed for students of 2nd grade of primary education in which, in groups, they must organize themselves to lead the robot in the different missions that are proposed as units of work. The Agent Blip is a floor programmable robot that moves with coding introductory sequences, using mats that work with both vocabulary and grammatical and syntactic structures or even phonics.Through tools such as Agent Blip robot, the students begin to hear and understand the language until they can verbally express what learned. They feel like playing and so they learn a foreign language in a fun and very enriching process.
%A Leticia Conde Montes
%T An EFL PREA1 Starters (YLE Starters) communicative and Task-Based Course Design. How to implement Educational Robotics with primary year 2 students, in a public school in Santander, Spain.
%D 2022
%L uneatlantico1229