Abstract
This Bachelor's Degree final project is intended to trace the process of developing aservice-learning experience hand in hand with another student teacher, Ivet Pintó
Calderer. Pursuing the objective to meet some of the needs of a secondary school,
the following pages bear witness to our overall learning process. In spite of its
changing nature, the ultimate aim of this inquiry-based and cooperative servicelearning has maintained its essence. That is, to design teaching materials to assist
EFL learners at IES Federica Montseny in Badia del Vallès. Therefore, I am in charge
of creating Year 1 learning material whereas my colleague is responsible for providing
English support materials for Year 2 students.
With this in mind, the development of our contribution should be considered a clear
sign of cooperation and academic growth. As a consequence, the written project also
embodies this decision. It is split into two main sections, entitled “a common road” and
“individual path”. The former is the result of collaborative work, therefore it is the same
for Ivet Pintó Calderer whereas the latter is a product of personal writing in order to
develop autonomous learning strategies, to assume individual responsibility as well as
to fulfil the requirement of this Bachelor's Degree final project as an individual
assignment.
In short, the rest of the paper is organised in the following way. On the one hand, there
is a brief justification of school’s demands, together with our personal needs; followed
by a rationalisation about the school’s context. This first part also presents the
bachelor’s thesis organisation and its evolution, since several modifications have been
made regarding the initial proposal. On the other hand, the individual path introduces
the settings and conditions under which the design of the materials has been
undertaken. The remainder of this part lays out the theoretical dimensions of each
project and justifies the didactic decisions made in each case.
A SHARED SERVICE-LEARNING EXPERIENCE Amina Khyat El Acham
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Needless to say, this Bachelor's Degree final project has also been affected by the
spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from the constant changes in our servicelearning experience, the final teaching materials have responded in such context to
ensure their implementation at this challenging time. All in all, we incline towards
depicting this written project as a metaphor of a journey, with starting and finishing
points as well as with its ups and downs. Under our eyes, everything boils down to
education as the endless process of improvement and adaptation.
| Date of Award | May 2020 |
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| Original language | English |
| Supervisor | Maria Dolors Masats Viladoms (Director) |