Survey of English Teachers (primary school age)

2010-05-04 18:57 | Monika Knapkiewicz

Primary school teachers of English:
please help us with our research project:

Investigating Global Practices in Teaching English to Young Learners

If you teach young learners – primary school children aged 7-11, we would like you to contribute a few minutes of your time to this project.

Please complete an on-line questionnaire about your work at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TEYL

The questionnaire should only take about 20 minutes to complete. Your answers are completely confidential and will be used only as summaries in which no individual’s answer can be identified.

Please pass on this information to all your colleagues who teach English to 7-11 year olds.

“Investigating Global Practices in Teaching English to Young Learners” is a research project supported by the British Council ELT Research Award Scheme. We are interested in finding out about primary school teachers’ experiences of teaching English, the activities they use and the challenges they face. The project is being run by Dr Sue Garton and Dr Fiona Copland from the School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University and Professor Anne Burns from the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney. Results from the project will be used to help us to better understand primary school teaching around the world. We will publish our findings with The British Council so that primary school teachers can learn about each other and to discover how solutions to teaching problems developed in one context may be effective in another.

You can find more information about the project at  http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/news-events/news/news-2010/march/young-learners/

If you would prefer to receive the questionnaire as an e-mail attachment or in the post, or if you have any questions about the project, please contact one of the researchers below.

Thank you very much for your help.

Sue Garton, Aston University (s.garton@aston.ac.uk)
Fiona Copland, Aston University (f.m.copland@aston.ac.uk)
Anne Burns, Macquarie University (Anne.Burns@ling.mq.edu.au)