Is the Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) approach an efficient methodology for Infant Education students?

Abstract

Teaching a foreign language from very early ages, in this case, English, has to be a crucial aspect to take into account by English language teachers as it can have an influence in the motivation of the students as future learners. This teaching proposal involves a curricular plan based on the use of tales as a foreign language methodology for the acquisition of English in the Infant Education stage, emphasizing for an innovative, efficient and suitable methodology for this stage. Thus, it has adapted the Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling approach of Blaine Ray. The methodology of this teaching proposal allows working in a multidisciplinary way all the areas of the curriculum potentiating the meaningful learning and the motivation of the students. Furthermore, the activities presented are focused on the students’ interests and needs and place them in the center of the learning-teaching process, having an active role.