Pedagogía hospitalaria: fomentando la escucha y el habla en efl a través de mitos y leyendas colombianos

Abstract

This research focuses on the need for pedagogical intervention in English as a foreign language in hospital classrooms for those children who are hospitalized and cannot receive the necessary educational support in that area. The purpose of the study is to develop an intervention to foster listening and speaking skills using Colombian myths and legends, translated into English, to immerse five students/patients of two hospitals in Bogotá within the oral and written culture found in those stories through a foreign language. The implementation of the study would take an action research design, using semi-structured interviews and observations as instruments to collect data. This proposal intends to be a contribution to the studies related to hospital pedagogy in Colombia in the EFL area and its impact on students/patients’ promotion of communicative skills.