CONTEXTUALIZED LANGUAGE
Well this is a nice strategy to teach a foreign language as all the activities are related with real situation, so the language can become more meaningful.
The teacher attitudes in this strategy as somebody said has to be patient, esthusiactic, etc, as he/she is the one who will guide most of the activities at the very beginning levels, but then there is like more freedom when students prepare their own conversations or projects related to things they are interested on.
This strategy would be nice to be applied in our country, but it would be a little bit difficult at the beginning as there are many facts that would not let it to be well applied. First of all the curriculum in El Salvador sometimes does not give too much freedom to the teacher in creating like a meaningful class, but some teachers do it and that´s awesome. Second it can require a lot of creativity from the teacher as he/she has the responsability to create many activities in which students can be involved with the context. Third one the amount of students in the classroom, especially public schools, is big so it would be really hard for the teacher to get involved all students in the activities.
As culture varies from country to country, I can say that in our country at the beginning students may be confused on what they are learning, but later they can realized that the idea of the contextualized language in that they can learn from real situations; consequently, the learners´ attitude would not be as the one we saw in the video. It would take some time but it would be nice if teachers in our country start using this strategy of teaching a second or foreing language.
As you stated, there's not such a good environment in our country, but still some teachers do try to use contextualized language, and hopefully it will catch on...
ResponderEliminarHello) I was thinking about teaching big groups, and as you said it is difficult to carry out many activities with large groups because we can face many problems, but it is not impossible.Unfortunately, in our country the Government does not pay so much attention to education, and they do not help teachers to feel motivated to do their best.
ResponderEliminarHi class!!!
ResponderEliminarthose are external factors teachers must fight in each class. Big groups, hot classrooms, lack of equipment are just a few situations that really affect the good development of classes, especially when teaching English.
AS you can see, the teachers may be eager to innovate their teaching practicum; however, those factors frustrate any good attempt to be the leader of change.