Emotional intelligence tales as a tool to promote reading and writing skills in visually impaired students in an inclusive EFL class

Abstract

Education is a universal right, and it should be considered as one of the most important. Knowledge is light and guide for everyone, that’s why considering everyone’s necessities and requirements is key for an inclusive and complete system. This internship project will be carried out in a public school in Bogotá; it aims to improve writing and reading skills with emotional intelligence (EI) tales with visually impaired secondary students. Being aware of the lack of material, teacher's training, visually impaired students left behind and lack of research about this topic. The main motivations are to provide resources, improve literacy skills, contribute to the inclusive education field and boost academic achievement in students. The project is carried out with a project-based learning method, from a humanist and significate learning approach. It is expected for students to share their emotional experiences creating their own tales, improving their inner and literacy skills and providing the opportunity to know students' perspectives. Emotions are in everyone and working with them at early ages provides skills for a better life development. The instruments to evidence students' progress are field notes, artifacts, and class observations. Finally, this internship space wants to improve teamwork, empathy, self-esteem, cooperative and collaborative spaces.