Friday, January 25, 2013
WEEK 3 "The highliting"
I think that would be the best way to describe this week`s job although some other topics were clearly the very important too. The aural and oral skills is considered by most of the teachers in my country as the weakest points in our practices (including me some time ago) and that is due to most of the teachers don`t like or don`t know how to speak the language with the students or with anyone else. In my case isn`t a problem because I have the idea of if you are teaching something how can you be a teacher and don`t use the language? It is like having a Ferrari ( which certainly with my salary of a teacher would be impossible) and keep it parked in your garage of something without using. Other thing is how can we learn a speaking language if we don`t give our students tools to listen and then speak? I always like when my students are trying to communicate with me using the language but first I should be the model to follow and I mean by follow when they listen to me.
The project which I chose can influence some of my final project because it has several similarities within my school setting so I know now what path should I follow and what is the objective of this course?. Thanks as always and see you soon. By the way robert, my birthday was also the 20th of january, 1983. bye bye
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Hi Ricardo,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you when you say that it's very important to give students tools to listen and speak if we expect them to speak a language fluently. As the saying goes: "Practice makes perfect." That's the reason why the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is very important.
In addition to that, the teacher should be a model because this can be a source of motivation for learners in that, sometimes, when a student likes a teacher's way of working, he/she tries, most of the time, to look like the teacher.
Best Regards,
Dagnogo
Hi Ricardo,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on most of the points especially when you say you cannot teach a language and do not give the students the opportunity to practice it. I usually tell my own students (who in their majority are adults as I teach in a language center) that the main thing that we do with a language is speaking/listening, speaking/writing, although they are very important in our modern society, do not bear the same value. A language is spoken first thing before being written.
So we teachers who have understood the importance of developing aural/oral skills must use all tools available to keep ourselves up to date and make our students speak as much as possible. The communicative approach is there remind us of our obligation to make our students practice a lot, especially in areas/countries where English is not the first/official language.