bachelorThesis
Teaching a second language to students with down syndrome
Autor
Buestán Alama, Ivania Selene
Quezada Contreras, Diego Felipe
Institución
Resumen
The purpose of the current research synthesis was to recognize what strategies
are helpful to teach a second language to students with Down syndrome. For this
exploratory bibliographical research synthesis, twenty-two empirical research studies
were selected by means of online sources and categorized based on the aims of this
paper. There were no limitations related to the design or year publication of the selected
studies. In order to address the purpose of this research synthesis, the strategies to teach
an SL to DS students, the effects of each type of strategy, and teachers’ perceptions
about teaching an SL to DS students were analyzed. The results revealed that various
strategies were effective when teaching an SL to DS students. Therefore, these
strategies were organized into shorter categories such as intrinsic, extrinsic,
technological, and motivational. Moreover, the results demonstrated that students with
DS could learn an SL by applying different teaching strategies. Thus, the most
predominant teaching strategies were intrinsic and motivational. Also, regarding
teachers’ perceptions, this paper remarked the importance of training, curricular
adaptations, collaborative work, classroom environment, and motivation.