jueves, 31 de marzo de 2011

Reflection

Most of the students are very much agree in how important is for a teacher to look good and more to care about his/her teaching,treating his/her students with fairness and respect; and a teacher also has to know student`s names,showing interest about the lessons and the students.They are disagree in that a teacher lets them to mark their own tests and a teacher doesn`t use his/her time in the classroom to talk with the students if they need help. However the students are totally disagree if a teacher uses corporal punishment.

Survey of student opinions

 Very   AgreeUndecidedDisagreeTotally
 much   disagree
 agree    
1. It is important for a teacher to         X    
dress nicely and look good     
2, It is important for a teacher to care        X    
a lot about his/her teaching.     
3. A good teacher controls the class         X     
firmly.     
4. A good teacher treats his/her        X    
students witjh fairness and     
respect.     
5. A good teacher is warm and         X   
friendly towards students.     
6. A good teacher knows and uses          X    
student`s names.     
7. A good teacher is interested in         X   
each student as a person.     
8. A good teacher will change the          X   
lesson planj and do something else     
if that is what the students want.     
9. A good teacher lets students mark           X 
their own tests.     
10. I like it when the students take           X   
over and run the lesson.     
11. A good teacher makes sure          X   
students have fun in lessons.     
12.  A good teacher gets students to           X   
work hard.     
13. I prefer working in groups or          X   
individually to having a teacher-     
dominated lesson.     
14. I like it when the teacher asks my           X   
opinion in class.     
15. I good teacher always gives         X    
interesting lessons.     
16. I good teacher uses corporal             X
punishment occasionally.     
17. If we need help, the good teacher           X 
finds time to talk outside the     
classroom.     

Learner motivation and interest.

                                            Aspect of Learner Motivation

1. How important do you think motivation is for success in language learning,compared to, for example, language aptitud?

I think that motivation is very important in language learning because a motivated learner is one who is willing or even eager to invest effort in learning activities and to progress.Learner motivation makes teaching and learning immeasurably easier, more pleasant and more productive.
When the students are motivated they increase their strategies and they increase the likelihood of success in learning activities.However language aptitud is something natural, in that way if a student is motivated she/he is going to develop a successful aptitud and that student is going to achieve a greater development.

2. How important is people's past success in language learning for their motivation to learn in the present and future?

Because people have more tools with the objectives that they have achieved in the past and those tools always helps people to struggle for objectives  helping people to keep a fighter spirit.If I could achieve a goal in the past , I can achieve a goal now in the present and in the future.