The cultural diversity in English primary classrooms

Abstract

On March 2014, I received a grant to do placement in Bradford, United Kingdom. I had already been there nine months as an Erasmus student. The majority of people who live in Bradford are from countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh...and in schools you can rarely see English students. It is something that has always caught my attention, so that is why when I went again in March I decided to do an investigation between children from different countries. I observed for the whole month of March three students: one child from Lithuania, other from China and other from Pakistan and see the main differences between them. With this work what I pretend to know is why children of not English nationality have some kind of problem either in the academic as well as their behaviour in class and in the relationship with their peers.