PERCEPTIONS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT-TEACHERS OF ENGLISH ON THE USE OF SYNTHETIC PHONICS
This study aimed at investigating the perspectives undergraduate English Teaching students at Federal University of Ceará have regarding the application of synthetic phonics in their classes. The participants were all senior undergraduate students with or without teaching experience. To collect the...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2018 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN) |
| Repository: | Revista Colineares |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.periodicos.apps.uern.br:article/152 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/RCOL/article/view/152 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Phonics Teaching English as a Foreign Language Método fônico Ensino Inglês como língua estrangeira |
| Summary: | This study aimed at investigating the perspectives undergraduate English Teaching students at Federal University of Ceará have regarding the application of synthetic phonics in their classes. The participants were all senior undergraduate students with or without teaching experience. To collect the data, an explanatory video on synthetic phonics explaining how it could be used in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) class was recorded and presented to participants. After watching the video, in which synthetic phonics is explained and demonstrated, the undergraduate students answered a questionnaire about relevant aspects of synthetic phonics and its use in EFL classes. The results indicate that the undergraduate students believe in the efficacy of the techniques as an appropriate means for the formal and explicit teaching of phoneme/grapheme correspondences in an EFL context. In addition, the participants seem to defend the implementation of synthetic phonics permanently at the EFL teaching framework, especially at the beginning of the learning process. |
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