lunes, 10 de septiembre de 2007
The present of English
In our first class we talked about how english it is necessary in this time, more people wants to learn this lenguage. May be because they are loking for a job, or for improve their own studies, traveling, visiting friends, or just to understand better the internet. Right now, english is the lenguage for bussines. The mandarin, the chinease lenguage is becoming the second lenguge to trade. Personality, I enjoy learning english, and I think it is important for our kids to learnit as a tool to get better comunicated to this world.
WHO IS MY FAVORITE TEACHER?
Trying to answer this question I looked back on time, I remember very good teachers at school and college. It won’t be fair if I just choose only one. I like my Spanish teacher at 8th grade because She was so neat at her job, She was clear about what we were doing and seduce us by her readings. I also admire to my biology, chemistry and physics teachers because even I didn’t choose those subjects for my college They were very generous, patient and gave me the opportunity to ask, they were very clear to explain and also they were always close to the students, ready to any sign from us to make sure we understood.
At university I admire two teachers the most, Mrs. Goyes and Mr. Botero. I admire them because they were punctual, clear and It seems to me that they like the subject they were teaching so it was easy to share it with the students.
At this point, it is necessary to be grateful with the teachers I just mention and also with the ones who I am sharing my classroom because I think your labor preserves the good values of life.
How will I address competences in my classes?
How will I adress general competences?
I will invite to my students to think about learning. Why are we learning English?, How can it be useful now? It will be necessary in the future? Will help English to learn other subjects? This questions make us think about the general competences that our students must have: It is important to learn, it is good to have some acknowledgment about any subject, but what I can do with it?, will this give us the ability to learn other things? And also, with this reflections the students will know more about themselves.
How will I adress communicative competences in classes:
The linguistic competences: It is a very important competence but some times the students get bore because learning grammar, orthography, semantic, it is not that funny. I will try to explain it in an easy way depending on the age of the student and his/her particular interesting.
The Sociolinguistic competences: I understand by it the way we communicate in different moments and places. It has to do with the way the persons behave in a moment. Since it is different to communicate in each circumstance, it will be good to teach greetings, manners and use them in the classroom and also it will be good to watch movies, tv shows, to see how people communicate in an ordinary day or in a formal moment.
The pragmatic competences: In this competence we have two sub competences, the discursive and the functional. To reach the first one, the students must be able to arrange sentences in a sequence and the functional competence enable the student to apply the linguistic forms in a real communicative situation. In this to cases, again, depending on the student’s age or English level, I will tell them to write about what they think about an specific topic, so they will have the opportunity to resonate and write in a logic way and then I will ask them to share it with a classmate, both of them will have to write what do they think about each other commentary.
I will invite to my students to think about learning. Why are we learning English?, How can it be useful now? It will be necessary in the future? Will help English to learn other subjects? This questions make us think about the general competences that our students must have: It is important to learn, it is good to have some acknowledgment about any subject, but what I can do with it?, will this give us the ability to learn other things? And also, with this reflections the students will know more about themselves.
How will I adress communicative competences in classes:
The linguistic competences: It is a very important competence but some times the students get bore because learning grammar, orthography, semantic, it is not that funny. I will try to explain it in an easy way depending on the age of the student and his/her particular interesting.
The Sociolinguistic competences: I understand by it the way we communicate in different moments and places. It has to do with the way the persons behave in a moment. Since it is different to communicate in each circumstance, it will be good to teach greetings, manners and use them in the classroom and also it will be good to watch movies, tv shows, to see how people communicate in an ordinary day or in a formal moment.
The pragmatic competences: In this competence we have two sub competences, the discursive and the functional. To reach the first one, the students must be able to arrange sentences in a sequence and the functional competence enable the student to apply the linguistic forms in a real communicative situation. In this to cases, again, depending on the student’s age or English level, I will tell them to write about what they think about an specific topic, so they will have the opportunity to resonate and write in a logic way and then I will ask them to share it with a classmate, both of them will have to write what do they think about each other commentary.
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