English for specific purpose

 http://www.mediafire.com/?rc6gsus4hx1i2eh

Teaching in Nursery school

This is one of the photographs that we took that day. Francisca,Yasna,Judith and Me!

Here is the link of the Lesson Plan: http://www.mediafire.com/?7j79mjsgv9b6074

Here is the song that  we learned with our classmates "Happy Easter":http://www.mediafire.com/?qltf3tr5k07z60h

Here is a video of some parts of the class:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZSeVBVblGU&feature=autoshare&noredirect=1

It was an interesting experience...

webquest, metacognition, automaticity and cognitive load.

http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=115255

Possible was to foster metacognition:

Learning how to learn.
Constructing connection between previous and new knowledge.
Promote learning environment.
Improve memory and attention with cognitive training games.
Promoting metacognition through negotiated assessment.
Engaging the students in activities that require reflection.
Group work and discussion time.
Identify what the students will be learning.
Explain them why it is meaningful or important what the students will be learning by giving relatives examples.
A brief description about what will be taught.
Help monitor progress, and then help students reflect on the assignment.
Explain them what they will have to achieve, the goals.

In your own words, what is “automaticity” and “cognitive load?”

Automaticity

Is the state which an individual perform common task without having to use a great effort or concentration. It is an spontaneous ability that we do every day, they are common activities, such as walking, speaking, riding and driving a car. It´ s an spontaneous reaction or stimulus which we don´t have to use a great effort to do it, you know have to do it because you get this by practice, repetition and learning. 

Cognitive load:

This is the capacity of the brain to understand something, to perceive something, to problem solving, or juggling things in memory, where the total amount of the brain is imposed of working memory, and the volume of learning that is expected of the students in a particular unit of time.

Glogster, writting activity

http://nataly23.glogster.com/essay/

Listening activity special days.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bvecyxu70ag1xxz

Listening

Methodology ll

Teaching Reading

http://www.mediafire.com/?xo7x43ov80fh5pv

Teaching Grammar

Grammar activity:

I will give each student a card which they will have to write or try to guess the correct coordinating or subordinang conjuction, putting vowels to complete the correct words.In this activity everyone has to participate,each student has to tell what word she/he has completed. Then I will write sentences on the blackboard using coordinating conjuntions and subordinating conjuntions which students have to choose the correct  conjuction , for that they will have to work in pairs, so everyone has to participate.

a) _ nt_l                    b) b_c__s_          c) _lth__gh       d) b_f_r_    

e)th__gh                   f)wh_l_                g) _ft_r             h)th_r_f_r_      

i)_nl_ss                     j)h_w_v_r            k) _s   th__gh

1) The gods thundered i the heavens , and/yet the mortals below cowered in fea

2) I will either go for a walk or/yet read a book.

3) I wanted to studey but/beacuse I was too tired.

4) We had to wait because/while we arrived early.

5) After/as though the trian left, we went home.

6) I arrived before/until the stores were open.

7) Whenever/where a country goes to war, certain freedoms in that country may be compromised.

8) Although the carpet had been treated, it was stained by the red wine.

9) Take two tablets daily until the doctor tells you stop.

The method used in this activity is communicative language teaching.


Concept map about techniques and principles in language teaching

Silent way

This is the method which learners have to learn by themselves,  learners seem to be responsible by their own learning, so students work independent by their own, producing their own learning .For example if a teacher says that students have to create a glogster they will have to do it by themselves, producing their own learning process.

The teacher is an engineer or a technician,

Only the learner can do the learning.

Students learn by their own.

Advantages:

The students can produce their own learning without the help of anybody

The student can work independently.

Disadvantages: Students might get lost without the helping of the teacher

It doesn`t produce an interactive and social environment.

Desuggestopedia

This is the method which teacher use to helps their students to eliminate the feeling that they can’ t be successful in leaning a second language, for example the teacher interact with their students, gives clear instructions, interacting and showing interesting about the learning process of the students, teachers explain to their students clearly if they don`t understand something, helping to the students in their learning.

Advantages: Elimination of those things that accomplish the students to get a successful learning.

Help students overcome the barriers to learning

One of the ways the students mental reserves are stimulated is through integration of the fine arts.

Content based, task based, and participatory approaches.

-This is the method that the teacher scaffolds the linguistic content, making adjustments if necessary, which students learn to see themselves as social and political beings, participating in learning a second language and interacting with their partners, for example if a teacher gives an activity to the students, they will participate in a social environment which authentic materials, tasks and cognitively challenging language are involved.

Gives students the opportunities to practice using communicative function.

The participation , interaction and social environment are essentials for the learning process.

Disadvantages: The students can feel ashamed in some situations, they work better in an individually work, because some of their partner don`t work.

Communicative language teaching

This method consist in the communicative function fo language, foster classroom interaction, for example students in the class can make mistakes, because errors are tolerated, expressing their own ideas and opinion, establishing an social an communicative interaction.

The social context is important

Students can express their own ideas and opinions

The interaction is pretty important

Different games are used to establish interaction, communication and participation.

Disadvantages: some students tend to be shy and they can`t speak aloud, and they feel a little nervous about it.

What is the main function of this four principles? What method would you use for teaching a second language?

What do you think about these principles? Think for some minutes... How do you relate them to your experience as student? Did you observe then in your practicum? Did you include them in your lesson plans? If not, How can you integrate them? What advantages and disadvantages do you foresee?

I think that these principles are pretty important because are the essential methods that a teacher must to use in teaching a second language, such as community language teaching which is pretty important that  a teacher and a students have an interaction between them, where students can work and groups, communicative language teaching which the interaction and communicative function is important, the content based where the students learn to see themselves as a social and political beings, and the leaning strategy training and multiple intelligences, which the job’s teacher is to teach learning,

Yes I observed them in my practicum, because my experience about the classes that I did ,I included some of this methods, integrating them in my lesson plan,