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PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THEIR
COMPETENCE, SKILLS AND
CHALLENGES IN TEACHING of Morelos (Programa Piloto de Inglés en
ENGLISH TO ELEMENTARY- Escuelas Primarias del Estado de Morelos).
SCHOOL CHILDREN IN The state of Nuevo León began the same
TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, project the following year. Since 1994, fif-
CHIAPAS teen additional states have added English
language programming. Currently, half of
Gisela Cruz Coutiño the 32 Mexican states show some imple-
Antonieta Cal y Mayor Turnbull
mentation of PNIEB and some of them are
about to start similar programs. States such
Introducción
as Chiapas and Quintana Roo are still pi-
Teaching English in elementary public loting the program, since it has not been
schools in Mexico through the Natio- officially been included into the curriculum.
nal English Program for Basic Education Despite the importance of this pro-
1
(PNIEB ) is a growing reality. Since the be- ject, little research has been done on how
ginning of the 90s, the governments of se- the program has progressed, what is its cu-
veral states in Mexico have implemented rrent state of affairs -- and specifically the
certain initiatives to introduce English as a perceptions and challenges that teachers
Foreign Language into the national curri- have faced while participating in the pro-
culum of elementary school starting in kin- ject. Some research studies done are tho-
dergarten. se of Chepetla (2005), concerning the pilot
The first PNIEB project started in Mo- program in Morelos; Diaz (2004) regarding
relos in 1992, with the name Pilot English an English program for sixth graders of the
Program in Elementary Schools in the State State of Mexico, and more recently those
1 PNIEB stands for the acronym and official name in Spanish
of the National English Program for Basic Education [Progra-
ma Nacional de Inglés para Educación Básica]
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas
