Abstract

VELANDIA, Rosalba. The Role of Warming Up Activities in Adolescent Students' Involvement during the English Class. profile [online]. 2008, n.10, pp.9-26. ISSN 1657-0790.

In this article we want to share the experience we had when we applied warming up activities to seven graders at Porfirio Barba Jacob, a public school in Bogotá, during 2004. Our main objective was to get students' attention at the beginning of the class by means of enjoyable and short activities as well as to observe how possible it was to engage them in the steps that followed. We sought to explore students' involvement in the English class while we tried to motivate them through appropriate warm ups. We used journals, students' surveys and field notes to collect data. The analysis of information collected showed us that the use of warm up activities increases students' attention and helps us link the processes of the class.

Keywords : Warming up activities; students' attention; students' participation.

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