Abstract
This article reports on the findings of a qualitative research project, in which an instrumental case study with five in-service English teachers graduated from Universidad Nacional (UNA), Costa Rica was carried out. Hence, a hybrid continuing education workshop was designed and conducted, which was focused on promoting the pedagogical use of pictograms in the design of materials for teaching English. As the main product of the workshop, the participants created and used a teaching material which included pictograms. Among the main results obtained in the research project, the students’ facility, motivation, and speed to communicate their ideas in English by using pictograms stood out.
Highlights
This article reports on the findings of a qualitative research project, in which an instrumental case study with five in-service English teachers graduated from Universidad Nacional (UNA), Costa Rica was carried out
A critical, committed teacher should make use of any resources that boost communication among the participants of the educational process; teaching materials play a crucial role in this regard
The issue investigated was the pictographic representation of concepts in the design of teaching materials by five inservice Costa Rican English teachers
Summary
This article reports on the findings of a qualitative research project, in which an instrumental case study with five in-service English teachers graduated from Universidad Nacional (UNA), Costa Rica was carried out. Let us consider, for instance, students whose native language does not use the Latin alphabet (as in the case of Asian languages); the target language by itself may not be enough, and resorting to the students’ mother tongue excessively might be counterproductive. Those are but a few of the hurdles that EFL teachers have to face on a regular basis, and that is just one side of the issue. Sansone (2015) has been emphatic to highlight that images provide an added aesthetic value, but they are a source of meaning, so they should seriously be considered in the design of language teaching materials
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