Describing features in children´s visual attention: a qualitative focused description research on feature integration theory

Abstract

This research is a description of visual attention features found in children in fourth grade through the implementation of Naturalistic Intelligence activities at Liceo Español Pérez Galdós it was done in 2006 I. The most important objective was to find out what characteristics could describe fourth grade children?s visual attention. Other objectives were: To find out the features that reveal students? visual attention, to find out what students? perceptions about their own attention were, and to apply lessons which allow students to be in a Naturalistic environment. There were many reasons I decided to do this research. I will mention three of them. First, because as a teacher I have faced several times what, from my perspective, was lack of attention from children during English lessons. I wanted to learn more about students? attention and through research I thought I could find answers related to how it could be visible and how it works in children.