miércoles, 19 de diciembre de 2012

Reflection Activity 10

Final Reflection 

This subject was an interesting way to lear how to teach, I learned a lot of things that I can use in my classroom. And obviouly it was an excellent experience, because we played like children and we enjoyed the class with all my classmates.
I know that this knowledges are going to be with me  for the rest of my life.
To do a didactic class is the correct way to teach our future students.


domingo, 9 de diciembre de 2012

Reflection Activity 9

What is your learning style?

In clases I remember that we did a kind of test about our learning style, and my result was there Im Kinaesthetic.

"the learner learns best through using the body"

what strategies do you use/have you used to help you learn english?

* Guessing the meaning of unknown words
* Recording yourself speaking, then judging and correcting your pronunciation. 
* Another thing that I usually do, is talking to in front of the mirror and judge the way that  I express my ideas. 


what is your past experience of learning english?

I was no so good, because my teachers were lazy and always taught the same thing. They were not motivating at all. And all the class was based on the book and nothing else. 

Reflection activity 8

How did the age, ways and context in which you learnt english influence your success at learning?


Well, everything is combined because we need to have the right mixture of all these concepts. if we had a good teacher that gave you the right knowledge in the right age, everything is going to be easy for you. The way that we learn is very important and obviously all the contexts involve in our learning. If we want to have success at learning is necesary to count with a very good teacher, who helps you to understand and assimilate the foreing language.


Reflection Activity 7

Do you agree with these teachers and learners comments? why?/Why not?


1.- I like my teacher to correct all my mistakes.2.- If I don´t correct my students, they will continue to make the same mistakes and these will become bad habits.3.- It's impossible in class for a teacher to know why student is making a mistake.4.- It's difficult to use  different correction techniques with different students.




Well I going to be honest Im not agree with any of this comments, because on the first one is easier for the student to have all the correction but they will never do anything alone.And so on, I prefer to do half and half of corrections, they have to understand their mistakes and do not do it again. (if they can understand what they are doing wrong, this can happen easily)


Refection Activity 6

Which Method of learning English Would you prefer: Communicative, form-focused, grammar- translation, or combination of these? why?


Well, I prefer a combination of all, because when you are a teacher, you need to mix every single method to make your students understand and enjoy what their are learn. If you only use one method they are gonna be bored easily. 
But if i have to choose one, I will choose Form-Focused because like we saw in classes




"we need to focus our attention on the form of the foreign language, on how it is pronounced or written, on how its grammar is formed and used, and on the form and meaning of vocabulary".



What method(s) do your learners seem to prefer? why? Do you agree with their preferences?


Well they seem to prefer communicative learning style, I have a very fun students and they really want to learn how to talk and say many of words that can they learn. And obviously they enjoy doing real- life situations on clases.

"Students' motivation to learn comes from their desire to communicate in meaningful ways about meaningful topics."

Reflection Activity 5

What is learning English like?


For me learning English is like: "Learning piano"- I have learnt it for many years and am still not very good at it." 

Well  I choose this sentence because we had  plenty of classes of english in our life but no one is very good for us, our teachers always teach just the necesary things and that is it. And it doesn't matter if you learn very well or not. It is difficult to have a good level of english with these kinds of opportunities, so that is the reason because I choose that sentence. If we can have a good level of english, it´s up to us. I mean learn with videos, music, lyrics and all the things that we enjoy, so it going to be easier learn this second language.