Depicting Young Learners' Construction of Social Awareness through Language Learning Strategies

Abstract

Violence in the classroom is an issue that has been strongly studied in the last years. This matter makes English language teaching a difficult task in which the teacher is not only responsible for teaching the English language, but to keep the order and manage different conflict situations that might occur in the classroom. Following this further, this action research attempts to characterize the students’ responses in regards to their initial process of social awareness from social values implemented in the English class through learning strategies, these responses were collected and analyzed through field notes, video recordings and interviews. Data revealed that social awareness in second graders emerged from two main aspects, perceptions towards their own actions in the school and familiar contexts and how they perceive partners’ actions at school.