Resumen de From bonfire right to hawaiian lei day: the importance of an all-year-round intercultural education from the efl perspective
Cynthia Couriel, Amparo Fernández Ortiz
In this article, it is our intention to highlight the key importance that the subject of English as a foreign language has in raising the cultural awareness of our young primary and preprimary students. We can choose among many actions and perspectives from which raise this cultural awareness but as our interest is mainly set on the education of young learners, we have opted to develop a frequently simplified aspect in the official Curriculum of the Foreign Language area: festivities. After a revision of the most important Primary English textbooks in the Spanish market, we realized that festivals were treated as a residual content. They are frequently presented in the last pages, for teachers to use them as �gap fillers� in their sessions and with no meaningful activities. So, we not only intend to invite the readers to a reflection on this issue but also want to show how we can use festivities to work beyond vocabulary or grammar by sharing the main findings and conclusions of a real school experience where an intercultural approach through festivities was carried out along the school year 2014-2015.
