{"id":181,"date":"2025-06-05T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:15:38","slug":"abstract-melg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/abstract-melg\/","title":{"rendered":"ABSTRACT Mario E. L\u00f3pez Gopar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Learning from and with Children: Classroom- and-Research-Based Stories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mario E. L\u00f3pez Gopar (Professor)<br>Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Benito Ju\u00e1rez de Oaxaca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, language education of Indigenous and low-income children in Mexico and in North America at large is considered to be in a problematic state, since their school achievement is much lower than that of mainstream children. Often, the blame for this \u201cproblem\u201d falls on the children, their parents, or their cultures, which are seen as primitive and colonial (L\u00f3pez-Gopar, 2016). Within this panorama, and based on my own experience as a kindergarten and elementary-school teacher and as a teacher-educator of pre-service \u201cEnglish\u201d language teachers in Mexico and USA, and following from my own research studies involving English-language education, multilingualism, applied linguistics and decolonial theories, I narrate and analyze different classroom and research stories (Bruner, 2004) that challenge colonial views with respect to teaching English and other languages to young learners in diverse settings. Specifically, I address issues related to (multi)literacies, social constructs, linguistic identity and research on and with children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning from and with Children: Classroom- and-Research-Based Stories Mario E. L\u00f3pez Gopar (Professor)Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Benito Ju\u00e1rez de Oaxaca Currently, language education of Indigenous and low-income children in Mexico and in North America at large is considered to be in a problematic state, since their school achievement is much lower than that of mainstream children. Often, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3070,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}