Abstract

ARIAS SOTO, Luz Dary  and  GONZALEZ GUTIERREZ, Yury Andrea. Digital Literacy and Basic Self-Regulation Habits in Early Childhood Learning of English as a Foreign Language. Folios [online]. 2019, n.49, pp.177-196. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.49-9404.

This article is a report on how a group of young learners improved their speaking skill and sub-skills and enhanced their self-regulation by means of digital literacy in their process of learning English as a foreign language (EFL). The main goal of the investigation was to determine the possible effect of using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools on overcoming the difficulties that a group of first graders had when expressing progressive actions orally. The study was done with a group of first graders in a private school of Bogotá. Data was collected by means of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, voice recordings and a form to be completed by the students' parents. The results indicate that the students improved their speaking skills, particularly in regards to intonation, pronunciation, and extent when expressing continuous actions, besides fostering some basic self-regulatory attitudes.

Keywords : young learners; digital literacy; speaking skills; self-regulation; EFL (English as a foreign language).

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