1. Language Learner Profile- Reflection
According to the educational context, it is necessary to be aware about the
learner’s need, learning styles, abilities among others.The reason for what was
previously said, it is due to the fact that knowing their weakness as well as their
strengths can be useful in order to help students to overcome difficult situations
when learning a second language.
Firstly,one of the first challenges presented was to make the learner develop
his speaking ability, even though it was a complicated task due to his lack of
vocabulary, at the end it was remarkable that he tried very hard what we were
asking, so as to not make feel the learner uncomfortable, the question were related
to his daily life and likes, at this stage I realized that communicative skills is an
issue that needs to be promote gradually, if it is our main objective.
Secondly, the use of the language learner profile provides an integrated
approach to collecting and using information. The data allowed an insight of the
learner’s abilities, and also facilitated me to be focus on his language mistakes in
different areas such as productive skills (writing and orally). For that task, I was
cautious and kept an eye in every single idea. As a result, I felt grateful, because it
was a way to prove the knowledge that I had been learning all these years not just
English as an idiom, but also my educational background, at the same time I was
able to recognize at once his worse mistake, and came up with an strategy for it.
Finally, because of the data, it was able to apply the correct strategy, so at
the end the learner was able to make an improvement on his lees good item;
moreover, the learner was able to identify their cognitive processes. So far, as
teachers to be, I realized that we need to go step by step, and we need to foster
students to develop their abilities, and what is more important their appropriate
confidence in the classroom.
Makarena Sánchez Campos