Pre-schoolers bilingual literacy adopting Montessori’s principles in Remote English lessons

Abstract

During the lockdown due to COVID-19, the traditional educational processes
have moved to a remote environment, generating new challenges, and realities. This
qualitative documentary research between a student and a professor who belong
to students’ a research seedbed called RELATE of the bachelor in English as a
Foreign Language of Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios seeks to examine
the implementation of Maria Montessori’s principles in children’s bilingual literacy
before and during confinement caused by the pandemic. The articles reviewed were
released in 2020 and 2021 in the data basis ProQuest and the peer-reviewed journals
Childhood development journal, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and Childhood
development. The analysis was done on 50 articles to determine the development
of children`s bilingual literacy in remote learning environments and to what extent
Montessori’s principles could be identified. Findings show that the principles such as freedom and a child-friendly creative and resourceful environment of Maria Montessori’s theory are applied in some of the articles and some teaching practices actually foster children`s bilingual literacy before and during COVID 19 pandemic.