Resumen de Catalan Immersion Teachers: Principles of Language Teaching
This article describes the ‘teaching principles of Catalan, L2’ applied by two teachers of an immersion programme (kindergarten, three years of age). It contains the results of an analysis based on the approach called ‘teacher thinking’. Two researchers and two teachers have together reflected on teaching method by observing a representative sample of the curricular activities at this schooling level. The activities have previously been defined by the researchers and the teachers and later recorded on video and viewed. The teachers’ ideas explained in these two situations have been recorded on tape. The viewpoints of the teachers which are reflected in this material have allowed the researchers to define the ‘teaching principles of Catalan’, meaning the general strategies that these two teachers follow to teach the language. The work aims to provide information on the practice of these types of programmes and provide material for reflection for teachers.
