Teaching and learning english: adaptation of authentic materials to teach english in primary education

This project is going to take a deep look at the task-based learning approach (TBL) and the use of authentic materials adapted for teaching as a tool to implement TBL. Firstly, we will justify the chosen topic and will see in some depth the characteristics of task-based learning. This approach allows the students to use the language before studying any grammatical aspects. In the research section, we will verify the suitability of authentic materials for providing meaningful tasks to learn languages. The research will focus on the use of authentic materials to learn Spanish as an L2. For that purpose, we have selected five girls and three boys from Year 2 at St Mary’s Preparatory School, in Liverpool, and the development of the research itself has been carried out in four sessions of fifteen minutes each, and an extra one for assessment.