Teaching Language Through Content
I think that this principles as the majority of them ir very important the students can acquire the target language faster if you teach English with things that students are interested in. If you only based your classes on grammar or structures they are not going to feel the laguage they may feel that they are learning something that is not interested to them. Moreover now we have the tools to apply more things in a classroom, such as technology, internet where you can find a lot of stuff that for kids can be real and have a true meaning.
Learning Takes Place in Social Interaction
We know that students learn better if they have exposure to the target language and if they can practice it, even better so that is why I think that working in groups can really be a big help to them to improve their speaking and realized that it is much better if you have help from your classmates. If a student is isolated I think that he/she can feel very frustated or she/he is not going to be very succesful at learning.
Faith in the Learner Expands Student Potential
Me as a future teacher of English in my country I can not allow me not to have faith on my students I really want to make a difference on this, because most of my teachers said to me and my classmates in our senior year in highschool that none of us will be succesful in life that we were lazy and all those kind of things that really made me feel stupid in a point of my life and I think that that was something that we are going to remember for the rest of our lives, I still have contact to some of my old classmates and now we are friends in facebook and all of us had success in our lives in many ways, some of them are happily married, others girls are studying what they wanted to study and they are in the last year of their course of studies, I knew that some of us are in a foreing country (Europe, USA, Canada), so the teachers that said that to us they didn't have an idea what we were capable of, that is why I think we have to have faith i our students every person has differents abilities and our labor as a teacher is to help them to reach their goals and let them know how valuable are their abilities.
I think that this principles as the majority of them ir very important the students can acquire the target language faster if you teach English with things that students are interested in. If you only based your classes on grammar or structures they are not going to feel the laguage they may feel that they are learning something that is not interested to them. Moreover now we have the tools to apply more things in a classroom, such as technology, internet where you can find a lot of stuff that for kids can be real and have a true meaning.
Learning Takes Place in Social Interaction
We know that students learn better if they have exposure to the target language and if they can practice it, even better so that is why I think that working in groups can really be a big help to them to improve their speaking and realized that it is much better if you have help from your classmates. If a student is isolated I think that he/she can feel very frustated or she/he is not going to be very succesful at learning.
Faith in the Learner Expands Student Potential
Me as a future teacher of English in my country I can not allow me not to have faith on my students I really want to make a difference on this, because most of my teachers said to me and my classmates in our senior year in highschool that none of us will be succesful in life that we were lazy and all those kind of things that really made me feel stupid in a point of my life and I think that that was something that we are going to remember for the rest of our lives, I still have contact to some of my old classmates and now we are friends in facebook and all of us had success in our lives in many ways, some of them are happily married, others girls are studying what they wanted to study and they are in the last year of their course of studies, I knew that some of us are in a foreing country (Europe, USA, Canada), so the teachers that said that to us they didn't have an idea what we were capable of, that is why I think we have to have faith i our students every person has differents abilities and our labor as a teacher is to help them to reach their goals and let them know how valuable are their abilities.
1 comment:
Some of the best teachers are born from experiences of seeing very very BAD teaching. Good for you for believing in yourself when your teachers weren't capable of that vision. Hold yourself accountable for this with your own students. If they fail, it is that you failed them.
Gina
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