Ainhoa Ugarteburu
Amaia Zabaleta
Interview information
Organization responsible for the interview: Errotu
Country: Spain
Occupation: English teachers
Small bio / CV:
Ainhoa Ugarteburu: English teacher, with more than 20 years of experience. She has been a teacher of both adults and children, and currently teaches children between 10 and 18 years old.
Amaia Zabaleta: English teacher, with more than 15 years of experience in various schools and academies. Although she has taught children of all ages, she currently teaches teenagers between 14 and 18 years old.
Date of the Interview: 27.04.2024
Short Summary of the interview:
Foreign language teachers acknowledge having little or no knowledge of the needs that students with learning difficulties may have, and they lack both knowledge, adequate materials, and methodologies to teach these children or to be able to integrate them into their regular classes.
They use traditional technology, they feel the need to innovate in this area.
They also would like to have more time and less students to be able to give them a more personalized training.
Most important statement
They think that digital game-based methodologies can be a really useful tool to stimulate their students, both with or without special needs. But they feel they need to have certain knowledge about the needs of students with disabilities first.
