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Developing Students' Emotional Competencies in English Language Classes: Reciprocal Benefits and Practical Implications

Publication date2022-05-26
Abstract

Learning a foreign language involves a wide range of cognitive, social and affective skills. The present article gives ideas to develop socio-emotional competencies in English courses: the capacity to identify the emotion, to understand the causes and consequences, to express their emotions and to do so in a socially acceptable manner, to manage stress and to use their emotions to increase the effectiveness of thinking, decision making and actions. Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a dual approach aiming to develop both language and academic subject knowledge. It may be gradually introduced, embedding it at three levels: into the classroom (routines, organization, pupils’ behavior), the school and the curriculum. Successful learning in CLIL remains based on (1) communication, (2) ways of engaging in the learning process and (3) the use of meaning-making strategies. We propose a pedagogical sequence (several courses) to learn a second language based on the social and emotional learning approach, and the English coursebook MORE! 7e for primary school pupils (aged 10–11). We combine the specific language learning of the unit—talking about ourselves, people and their feelings—with the development of pupils’ basic emotional competencies, and discuss advantages and disadvantages to consider in order to successfully implement such lessons.

Keywords
  • CLIL
  • Socio-emotional competencies
  • Academic performance
  • Foreign languages
Citation (ISO format)
GAY, Philippe et al. Developing Students” Emotional Competencies in English Language Classes: Reciprocal Benefits and Practical Implications. In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022, vol. 19, n° 6469, p. 1–12. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19116469
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