Pedagogical Implications

6. IMPLICATIONS

This chapter discusses the pedagogical and the research implications that evolved from this early sequential bilingual project conducted during the early years. The implications are based on the performance of the bilingual educators, the early childhood teachers and the children involved, as well as the materials employed to carried out this implementation. 6.1. Pedagogical Implications There were some implications identified after the implementation of this early sequential bilingual project. Here, it is portrayed how the different factors evidenced in these implications impacted the three to five-year-old English lessons.

To begin with, during this implementation, the participation of the early childhood in-service teachers

Hence, the bilingual pre-service educators' profile and training were crucial in terms of motivation, creativity and the lesson planning itself. During this bilingual implementation, it was evidence how the bilingual educators' behavior in terms of their charisma and compromise affected children's motivation. If children perceived that the bilingual educators were taking part of the activities by modeling, singing and dancing enthusiastically, they were more engaged and eager to participate in the activities proposed. Also, in the observations it was noticed that the emergent bilinguals were engaged through longer periods of time when they were exposed to colorful and creative material, as well as kinesthetic activities. Though their attention span may be extended at times and activities may vary in nature; it is recommended to follow a scheme of a settling and then a stirring activity where the layout is modified, given that they may get bored when sitting in the same position for longer periods of

6.2. Research Implications

As previously disclosed, this project's implications not only addresses the didactics of teaching and learning during the early years; they also evidence the implications of conducting research and their role.

Firstly, for further studies it is recommended that the research group gets established from the beginning and with enough time so that their profiles could be scanned to ensure their commitment towards the research journey. Furthermore, all members: both the main researchers and the co-researchers must be in synergy. Their roles should be delineated and disclosed to all, they should be clear what the aims of the study are, its objectives and how it should be conducted. And they should compromise and be devoted to fulfill their role and the deadlines proposed, given that if one does not comply with what was assigned, other ends up taking up extra responsibilities and this provides an unnecessary burden.

Likewise, all data collection methods should be supervised, tested and approved by the main researchers before executing them. Also, it is recommended that data not only gets collected at the beginning and at the end of the implementation, but in the middle as well in order to determine and address the aspects that need improvement. This way the bilingual implementation impact could be boosted up, and its evolution could be reflected in the