lunes, 11 de abril de 2011

Expo u language adquisition

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martes, 15 de marzo de 2011

Excuse me, What did you say?


     As Second Language teachers, we are constantly facing different challenges in our classrooms with the only purpose to help our students to enhance and improve their level of English; however, probably you will agree with us that one of the most difficult tasks students have to perform is precisely a listening activity due to their lack of preparation to do this type of tasks. For this reason, one of our main duties is selecting, adapting and creating techniques to help every single student to help to learn effectively using their own abilities taking into consideration their educational needs. At this point, it seems it is a tough task to do it, and you will wonder how you can help your pupils to develop their listening skill. This article is for educational leaders who believe that all students can learn in a better way. It is for those teachers who think that their students must be responsible of their own learning process leaving behind the traditional and old forms of teaching. As a consequence of this, we decided to share with our colleagues a set of learning strategies which will be a success in your classes. Some of these strategies are called
1                                              Note Taking 
                                             Listen for signposts   
3                                    Shadowing the speaker
                                     Predicting
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sábado, 12 de marzo de 2011

Let´s Practice Some idioms

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Idioms
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Pdp

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Professional Development

Have you ever wondered how  you can improve your teaching performance?
There are many techniques that we use to imporve our professional background. We will present you some guidelines you can follow at you work place....

Tbi

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Task Based Instruction


       Education has changed over the last few decades. Educational Leaders have created different kinds of methods that have gone and come. 
            Second language learning has called has caught people´s attention all around the world due to the need to learn and teach a second language and get a great performance and  a high level of proficiency, that is why several approaches have been created through the time in order to full fill students and teachers needs ; it is also generally believed that there is no one single best method that meets the goals and needs of all learners and programs.
            Therefore, it is important for teachers to get to know the different kinds of approaches that are applied in second language learning and teaching. In the following work we will develop the Task Based Instruction Approach as one of the most popular and currently use all around the world.

Our Teaching Philosphy

         This Blog has been created with the purpose to help other colleagues to enhance their professional growth through a variety of ideas that we will provide.
         We believe that teaching is our greatest passion we have learned lots of things along teaching practice and we would like to share them with you!!
                                                             Best wishes
                                                                                Chris and Mary
 

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