English as a tool to prevent bullying and encourage equalities: The kiva project

Abstract

Through the combination of the KiVa project and the English language beyond its formal academic aspects, this work aims to achieve an efficient antibullying program that fits the students’ needs. The main objective of this research is to prevent bullying, to encourage equalities and to ensure that bullying victims can count on the support of the class group to feel more confident about themselves and to not be afraid. To carry out all this, we suggest using English as students’ L2 in order that it serves as a tool to prevent bullying. Moreover, English is chosen as the subject since it is a neutral common language for all the students, and leads to an environment of equality in the classroom and to the suppression of group roles. Some methodological strategies were implemented in Primary and Secondary to compare the results obtained, to reach the goals and to improve the use of English language through communication.