miércoles, 15 de septiembre de 2010

PROFICIENCY LEVELS

TEACHING BEGINNING LEVELS


It is considered the most challenging level because many students have little or no prior knowledge about the target language, so that is why to teach this level seems to be difficult, but at the end there is a feeling that can not be explained when you see how your students grew up in getting knowledge about the target language. There is a lot of work for the teacher because he/ she has to find the best way to get involved all the students in the target language but it does not matter when you see the results at the end.

TEACHER´S ROLE, AUTHENCITY OF LANGUAGE AND STUDENTS´CREATIVITY

At the beginning the teacher can be seen as the center of attention because he/ she has to model everything, but when you see that your students feel comfortable and start taking part of the environment (the learning of the target language) it is the right moment in which you can get students to participate in groups or pair activities in order to make them feel that you are not the center of attention; I mean to make them feel that you are just the guide.

Step by step you have to get your students to use the target language as much as they can.
The teacher in this stage controls the class, it means lead students in the right way to learn the basics of the target language, so the authenticity of language falls especifically in simple grettings and the introduction of simple phrases and you as the teacher has the responsability to provide activities in which students use the new language, so the students´creativity will be basically in a controlled repertoire of language, it means that students will create something in the target language but just things they already know becuase it has been practiced most of the time.

As you can see teaching in this level is not easy but it is really rewarding.


viernes, 3 de septiembre de 2010

wow the questions teacher Aida asked in Lupita´s blog are interesring becuase I can not imagine myself being videotape becuase it is something that I do not like as it is something we are not accustomed to . even though I do not like it but if my supervisor asks me to record or videotape a class, I will do my best to deal this. I think before I start convincing my students to participate on it, I will start practicing by my own. I mean recording myself and then I think I will be ready to do it with my students. It will be hard but not imposible.