First Assigment

About the topics already studied for me as a teacher in training as long as I’m not working as a teacher yet I could say that this course so far has been a re-discover experience, in fact I have picked up some nice points to take into account when teaching English in teaching practice, first: students have many different ways of learning and there are so many ways to teach taking into account your learners proficiency level, in my last teaching experience I came to realize that I had students that already knew the language and I was boring them treating them like if there were beginners, at that time I did not do anything about it now I know that if I have students with an English base I can work on that, adapting my activities so they are not going to get bored and their partners will get the topic information, for instance leaving out repetition drills and involve them into a more useful language, it will be a nice experience for the ones who have already know the language and a good way to make the ones who are beginners realize that English is a useful tool in any communicative situation, another fact from the topic “how learners learn language” was about their ages, for me I managed that part pretty nice taking into account my students ages and so.

Talking about lesson planning I came to realize how useful a plan class is, giving me the opportunity to predict my student’s errors so I can think on how to solve them, also that was the most important part for me about that topic, falling into students mistakes we got the grammar part, this is a very interesting topic for me and I would love to share it with my students, in order to do this some improvements should be applied, first: stop teaching grammar by explaining the forms and rules then make the students repeat what is on the board, that is not useful because the students are able to produce correct sentences in exercises and test but hardly in communicative contexts, what I would do is to apply more the communicative approach in order to give a real and a useful context to the given topic, of course make the students be aware that you are teaching them a new grammar context but in situations that are actually real, the same would happen when teaching vocabulary, always trying to use new words every class, that is something I was not aware of and I will apply when the time comes.