Intervention to strengthen fourth-grade students' oral production in English through Emotional Pedagogy.

Abstract

This qualitative action research project was carried out with 30 fourth graders in an EFL classroom at the CEDID Guillermo Cano Isaza School. This research was designed to implement an intervention focused on improving English oral production with the strategies proposed by the Emotional Pedagogy which involves not only the emotional intelligence aspects, but also the interaction into the curriculum being aware of primary, secondary, and background emotions and learning how to regulate them according to the situation To do so, questionnaires, field-notes and workshops were used to collect information through the process. Four stages were implemented to determine an issue, check previous studies, propose and work on a possible solution; and see the process, results, and future considerations. This project endowed students and teachers with strategies to manage their emotions in favor of learning, improving their oral production management.