Sexual identities in EFL at primary school levela pre-service teachers' perspective from Spain

  1. Barozzi, Stefano 1
  2. Guijarro Ojeda, Juan Ramón 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Journal:
Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

ISSN: 1697-7467

Year of publication: 2016

Issue: 25

Pages: 9-20

Type: Article

DOI: 10.30827/DIGIBUG.53885 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This article is principally inspired by queer theory and is based on the evaluation of a questionnaire on sexual identity issues directed to ten Spanish pre-service primary school EFL teachers. It aims to show their knowledge of queer issues and their opinion on introducing and discussing sexual identities in EFL at primary school level. The main results highlight the participants’ lack of training in this field and a willingness to treat these issues in primary school education. In the paper, sexual identities are generally referred to as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersexual as well as heterosexual people. It is the first research study realised in Spain that combines primary school education within sexual identity issues in English language teaching.

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