Pre-schoolers bilingual literacy adopting Montessori’s principles in Remote English lessons
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Bilingualism, preschool literacy, Montessori method, bilingual education, remote learning
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During the lockdown due to COVID-19, the traditional educational processeshave moved to a remote environment, generating new challenges, and realities. Thisqualitative documentary research between a student and a professor who belongto students’ a research seedbed called RELATE of the bachelor in English as aForeign Language of Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios seeks to examinethe implementation of Maria Montessori’s principles in children’s bilingual literacybefore and during confinement caused by the pandemic. The articles reviewed werereleased in 2020 and 2021 in the data basis ProQuest and the peer-reviewed journalsChildhood development journal, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and Childhooddevelopment. The analysis was done on 50 articles to determine the developmentof children`s bilingual literacy in remote learning environments and to what extentMontessori’s principles could be identified. Findings show that the principles such as freedom and a child-friendly creative and resourceful environment of Maria Montessori’s theory are applied in some of the articles and some teaching practices actually foster children`s bilingual literacy before and during COVID 19 pandemic.
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Bernal, A., & Monsalve Gaviria, Y. T. (2022). Pre-schoolers bilingual literacy adopting Montessori’s principles in Remote English lessons. Shimmering Words: Research and Pedagogy E-Journal, 11, 6-30. Retrieved from http://revistas.ustatunja.edu.co/index.php/shimmering/article/view/2460
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1(1), 758-764
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Learning Example with International Projects Integration, Conference:
International Conference on Teaching, Learning, Innovation and Educational
Technology At: Singapore P 212-225
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COVID-19 Lockdown on Bilingual Singaporean Children’s Leisure Reading.
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of English. International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 14(2), 99-120. Retrieved from https://searchproquest-com.ezproxy.uniminuto.edu/docview/2114227045?accountid=48797
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para la enseñanza instrumental. Estudios sobre Arte Actual, (7), 99-105.
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net/publication/42793046_Teaching_Languages_to_Young_Learners
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práctica y reflexión en educación infantil. RELAdEI. Revista Latinoamericana de
Educación Infantil, 85-96.
Carrillo, C., & Flores, M. A. (2020). COVID-19 and teacher education: A literature
review of online teaching and learning practices. European Journal of Teacher
Education, 43(4), 466-487.
Creswell, J. (2012) Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative
Research. Boston. Editorial Textech International.
Cruttenden, N., 2019. La adquisición de idiomas en la etapa crítica: estudio del aprendizaje
del inglés (L2) en la infancia. Doctorado. Universidad de Córdoba. https://helvia.
uco.es/xmlui/handle/10396/20187
Díaz-Bajo, M. P. (2019). Panorama actual de las pedagogías alternativas en España.
Papeles salmantinos de educación, (23), 247-281.
Doughty, C & Long M. (2003). The handbook of second language acquisition. https://
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470756492
Engen, B. (2019). Understanding social and cultural aspects of teachers’ digital
competencies. Comunicar, 27(61), 9-18.doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.uniminuto.
edu/10.3916/C61-2019-01
Faryadi, Q (2009) Performance Evaluation of Montessori Instruction to Teach English
as a Second Language: An Experimental Research. MASAUM Journal of Open
Problems in Science and Engineering, Vol.1, No.2.
Ferdig, R. E., Baumgartner, E., Hartshorne, R., Kaplan-Rakowski, R., & Mouza, C.
(Eds.). (2020). Teaching, technology, and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field. Waynesville, NC: Association for the Advancement
of Computing in Education.
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Development of digital competence in secondary education teachers’ training.
Education Sciences, 8(3) doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.uniminuto.edu/10.3390/
educsci8030104
Gass, S & Selinker, L (2008) Second Language Acquisition. An introductory course
Third edition. https://blogs.umass.edu/moiry/files/2015/08/Gass.SecondLanguage-Acquisition.pdf
Ghaffari, M., Kashkouli, S. M., & Sadighi, F. (2017). Montessori and conventional
teaching methods in learning English as a second/foreign language: An overview.
Journal of Applied Linguistics and language research, 4(5), 209-218.
Godhe, A. (2019). Digital literacies or digital competence: Conceptualizations in nordic
curricula. Media and Communication. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.uniminuto.
edu/10.17645/mac.v7i2.1888
Gómez-Ramirez, I., Valencia-Arias, A., & Duque, L. (2019). Approach to M-learning
acceptance among university students: An integrated model of TPB and TAM.
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(3)
doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.uniminuto.edu/10.19173/irrodl.v20i4.4061
Gordillo, A., López-Pernas, S., & Barra, E. (2019). Effectiveness of MOOCs for teachers
in safe ICT use training. Comunicar, 27(61), 97-106. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.
uniminuto.edu/10.3916/C61-2019-09
Guzmán Gámez, D., & Moreno Cuellar, J. (2019). The Use of Plotagon to Enhance the
English Writing Skill in Secondary School Students. Profile: Issues in Teachers´
Professional Development, 21(1), 139-153. doi: https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.
v21n1.71721
Holland, A. A. (2019). Effective principles of informal online learning design: A theorybuilding metasynthesis of qualitative research. Computers & Education, 128, 214-
226. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2018.09.026
Jian, C. K., & Pane, W. S. (2020). Teacher’s Challenges in Teaching English to Young
Learners using Montessori Method. Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2(1), 1-13.
Juškevičienė, A., & Dagienė, V. (2018). Computational thinking relationship with
digital competence. Informatics in Education, 17(2), 265-284. doi:http://dx.doi.org.
ezproxy.uniminuto.edu/10.15388/infedu.2018.14
Khamsuk, A., & Whanchit, W. (2021). Storytelling: An alternative home delivery of
English vocabulary for preschoolers during COVID-19’s lockdown in southern
Thailand. South African Journal of Childhood Education, 11(1), 1-13.
Kolak, J., Norgate, S. H., Monaghan, P., & Taylor, G. (2020). Developing evaluation
tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the
UK. Journal of Children and Media, 1-21.
Kuhl, P. K. (1994). Learning and representation in speech and language. Current
opinion in neurobiology, 4(6), 812-822.
Labrador, C. (1998). María Montessori y la Educación Infantil. Padres y Maestros/
Journal of Parents and Teachers, (238), 35-39.
López, J. P. F., & Blanco, L. F. (2020). Maria Montessori (1870-1952)–Caroline Pratt
(1867-1954): Dos vidas en paralelo y la pasión compartida por la autonomía de la
infancia. RELAdEI. Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Infantil, 9(1), 29-41.
Milan, T & Basurto, N. (2019) Teaching English to Young Learners in Mexico: Teachers’
Perceptions About Their Teaching Context. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.
php/profile/article/view/82105
Mily, M., & Sará, G. (2017). Review and Analysis of the Colombian Foreign Language
Bilingualism Policies and Plans Revisión y análisis de las políticas y planes
colombianos de bilingüismo en lenguas extranjeras * Background of Foreign
Language Bilingualism in Colombia’ s. 24(1), 139–156.
Ministerio de Educación Nacional. (2009) Desarrollo infantil y competencias en
la Primera Infancia. https://www.mineducacion.gov.co/primerainfancia/1739/
articles-178053_archivo_PDF_libro_desarrolloinfantil.pdf
Ministerio de Educación Nacional. (2014) Dirección de Calidad para la Educación
Preescolar, Básica y Media. Subdirección de Referencias y Evaluación de la Calidad
Educativa. https://www.mineducacion.gov.co/1759/articles-342767_recurso_3.pdf
Ministerio de Educación Nacional. (2016) Mallas de aprendizaje de inglés para
transición a 5° de Primaria. https://aprende.colombiaaprende.edu.co/sites/default/
files/naspublic/colombiabilingue/dbacurriculo/cartillas_mallas_aprendizaje/
Mallas%20de%20Aprendizaje.pdf
Muñoz, J. Álvarez, F. Osorio, B. Cardona, P. (2006) Objetos de Aprendizaje Integrados
a un Sistema de Gestión de Aprendizaje. Guadalajara MX. Universidad de
Guadalajara. https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/688/68800310.pdf
Nikolayev, M., Reich, S. M., Muskat, T., Tadjbakhsh, N., & Callaghan, M. N. (2020).
Review of feedback in edutainment games for preschoolers in the USA. Journal of
Children and Media, 1-18.
Pascual, D. (2019). Learning English with Travel Blogs: A Genre-Based Process-Writing
Teaching Proposal. Profile: Issues in Teachers´ Professional Development, 21(1),
157-172. doi: https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v21n1.71253
Rivera Pérez, J. F., Hart, R., & Lund, E. (2020). Vocabulary-learning cues used on
children’s bilingual programming. Journal of Children and Media, 1-19.
Rotenberg, L. (2021). Made for this moment: how PBS KIDS navigated the crises of
2020 in the US. Journal of Children and Media, 15(1), 73-76.
Spante, M., Sofkova Hashemi, S., Lundin, M., & Algers, A. (2018). Digital competence
and digital literacy in higher education research: Systematic review of concept use.
Cogent Education, 5(1) doi:10.1080/2331186x.2018.1519143
Starkey, L. (2020). A review of research exploring teacher preparation for the digital age.
Cambridge Journal of Education, 50(1), 37-56. doi:10.1080/0305764X.2019.162586
Wright, T., Einhorn, K., Labin, D., Perez, S., DiSalvo, J., & Truglio, R. (2021). Sesame
Workshop’s international response to COVID-19. Journal of Children and Media,
15(1), 60-64.