This action research study reports an inquiry based learning process in which fifth graders worked collaboratively by examining a local topic (free school snack) from their school context. Collaborative inquiry was used as a way to promote elementary students’ reflections in the EFL classroom drawing on Vygotsky’s ideas about learning mediated by social and material contexts (Lee & Smagorinsky, 2000). The EFL curriculum was organized around students’ communities and realities as relevant resources for language learning (Sharkey, Clavijo & Ramirez, 2016). Lessons were organized around students’ knowledge about the free daily snack that school provides to all children and what they wanted to learn about the topic. In this sense, Dewey’s (1997) idea of learning as experience was implemented through an inquiry curriculum with students. Findings suggest that through a classroom project, fifth graders developed inquiry skills and digital, visual, oral, and written literacies while learning together through collaboration. Inquiring in the language classroom evidenced the use of languages (Spanish and English) as the means to learn about meaningful content beyond English grammar lessons. It also led to individual reflections about the challenges of working together as well as about school coexistence understood as the way all the members of an educational community relate to each other.

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EFL课堂中的协作式探究：与五年级学生探讨与学校相关的主题

这项行动研究报告了一个基于询问的学习过程，其中五年级学生通过从他们的学校环境中考察一个本地主题（免费的学校点心）来合作。协作性探究被用来促进小学生在EFL课堂上反思，借鉴了维果茨基关于社会和物质情境的学习思想（Lee＆Smagorinsky，2000）。EFL课程围绕学生的社区和现实而组织，作为语言学习的相关资源（Sharkey，Clavijo和Ramirez，2016年）。围绕学生对学校向所有儿童免费提供的每日零食的知识以及他们想要学习的知识进行了组织。从这个意义上讲，杜威（1997）关于学习即体验的思想是通过与学生进行探究课程来实现的。调查结果表明，通过一个课堂项目，五年级学生发展了探究能力以及数字，视觉，口语和书面文化水平，同时通过协作一起学习。在语言教室中进行的查询证明了使用语言（西班牙语和英语）作为学习英语语法课程之外的有意义内容的方法。这也导致人们对合作的挑战以及学校共处这一问题进行了个人思考，这被理解为教育社区中所有成员相互联系的方式。在语言教室中进行的查询证明了使用语言（西班牙语和英语）作为学习英语语法课程之外的有意义内容的方法。这也导致人们对合作的挑战以及学校共处这一问题进行了个人思考，这被理解为教育社区中所有成员相互联系的方式。在语言教室中进行的查询证明了使用语言（西班牙语和英语）作为学习英语语法课程之外的有意义内容的方法。这也引发了人们对合作的挑战以及学校共存的个人思考，这被理解为教育社区中所有成员相互联系的方式。