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8/10/2019 My Teaching Reflections

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My Teaching Refections Irma Rodrguez Quintana

My teaching refections

Irma Rodrguez Quintana


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Session 1 Date: 08/10/14 Already delivered

Session 2 Date: 29/10/14 About: Teaching methods

Session 4 Date: 0/11/14 About: Teachingun!lugged

Session Date: 12/11/14 About: Digital learning

Session " Date: 1#/11/14 About: $reative learning

Session % Date: 10/12/14 About: learner&s

autonomy

Session 8 Date: 1%/12/14 About: T'( vs) ***

Session 2

Through this session we have been introduced to the dierent teaching

methods. A method is a way o teaching which is deendent on your be!ies

about what !anguage is" how eo!e !earn or how teaching he!s eo!e !earn.

Thereore" you wi!! have to ma#e methodo!ogica! decisions about what to teach

and how" ways to reer to students or ways to assess.

$es!ie introduced us to the %$T &%ommunicative $anguage teaching' It is

be!ieved that !earners wi!! !earn best i they articiate in meaningu!

communicationa! acts. There are two tyes o %$T(

a' )trong %$T( )tudents !earn by communicating" which means they do by

doing communicative tas#s with a !imited ro!e or e*!icit teaching and

traditiona! ractice e*ercises. &e.g. +ou ,ust thin# o a tas# and the

grammar comes out o it'

b' -ea# %$T( )tudents !earn through a wide variety o teaching" e*ercises"

activities and study" with a tendency towards sea#ing and !istening wor#.

&e.g. +ou thin# o the orm you want !earners to roduce'

Another interesting teaching aroach we were to!d about was A$A&Acuisition $earning Aroach' /evised by )tehen 0rashen" a!so #nown as

1the natura! aroach2. This is a co!!ection o methods and techniues rom

many sources" a!! intended to rovide the !earner with natura!

comrehensib!e !anguage" so that the !earner can ic# u !anguage in ways

simi!ar to a chi!d !earning their 3rst !anguage. The basis o this !earning

method is on the natura! order that the content is de!ivered. 4rammar ru!es

wou!d be a!ied when !earners are ready.


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%5$ &%ontent 5ased $earning' is a tas#6based aroach in which content and

orm are integrated throughout the tas#s. Regarding this aroach is based onsimu!taneous use o unction and orm" there shou!d be more te*t boo#s based

on this combination" or they are most!y based on orm &grammar content'. That

is why this idea! method is so hard to introduce" as it reuires an e*tra eort

rom the teacher to adat the content to the method. Tas#s have to be

meaningu! or the students" meaning that they shou!d be based on the needs o

eo!e in their dai!y !ives.

%5$ is the oosite o 777 &7resentation" 7ractice" 7roduction'" which is the

standard way o teaching" in which teachers resent the content with !itt!e or no

interaction rom or amongst !earners. $earners are given inut" they areintroduced to some ractice and thereore" they are suosed to be ab!e to

roduce what they have !earnt.


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And then8 what about the dierent aces o !earning in A$A9 A!! o this made

me thin# about how di:cu!t it is to be a teacher" since you have to thin# on so

many things; The truth is that most teachers do not o!!ow a sing!e method.

Through ractise" you !earn to combine and adat the methods to your !earners

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