martes, 26 de octubre de 2010

contextualized language

Hello!!!!!
Well, contextualized language is the action to take the students into real situations according the topics of the curriculum. I mean, the teacher has a topic, and she/he wants to involve the students the most possible, and the way is to learn with the practice.
This is very important.The student takes not only theory that at the end it is left on the notebook but also gets knowledge of the real situation lived in the classroom. It is not the same to tell a student "Imagine you are tasting an ice cream" that "Taste your ice cream." So, contextualized language has the function to teach the student with real stuations of the real life from the lower to the highest level.
In this stage the attitud of the teacher has to be dynamic in order to get the students awke and interested on the topic. It has to be patient because the students won't learn at the first time, but at the same time it has to show authority to gain the students respect.
The students independence is nice because they can know they are part of the situation so that they have to play a good rol.
In El Salvador contextualized language could work nice because students can be involve in real situations, and they can notice the good things and at the same time the bad things that can be changed in or society.
The students can respond as well as the others students because all of us have capacities that can be develop.
Our EFL can work with it. Right now someone can say "No of cours not, it couldn't work!" But our teachers have the enough charisma to make work this interesting way to learn.

martes, 5 de octubre de 2010

CREATING A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CLIMATE

Well, according with this handout the teacher has a big responsability in the classroom. te teacher not only has to teach a lesson but also has the obligation of creating a good environment and a feeling of succes in the sutdents. I mean, the teacher not only works with the sutudents' mind, also the eacher works with the students' soul because the students learn better in a good environment of the classroom. So, if the teacher since the beginning create a good "Rapport" at the end of the year the students will have both a great knowledge of the subject and a nice experience of learning. I like the part that says "laughing with them not at them" it is nice because imagine! it would be hard if a teacher laughs about you in font, or with all students about you!!!