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Francisco Antonio Morales
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TASK 3
REFLECTIONS
1. - Which of the content areas interested you most? Why?
I think that as an English teacher and as English-as-Foreing-Language learners, we
need to be involved in all areas since all of them are extremely important for the
acquisition of the language. Being a teacher is great responsibility, so you have to take
care of all of them. Some of them are your strength and some your weakness.
2. - Which area will be more difficult for you? Why?
I think that Planning and Evaluation. This is the most difficult area because as an Eglish
teachers we need too much time for this area. And If we take into account that for
planning a class you need material, resources, books, worksheets, and sometimes you
need to read some extra material for the class etc, so you need too much time. Actually it
is not difficult but tiring when you do not have all the resources you need.
3.-Which resources do you already have relating to the five content areas?
I think that since I started to work as an English teacher, I have gathered a lot of material,
I have flashcards, audio, grammar sheet, and worksheets, etc.. for these reasons I think
that the chosen area is language teaching area .
4. - How would you keep the trainee’s motivation high during the training?
Being in front of a group is a great responsibility, and if you want to keep all your second
language students motivated, you have to plan your lesson carefully, you have to choose
the correct material according to the age, likes and dislikes, and current information that
motives your students. Besides all these teaching strategies, the teacher has to
comprehend his students, to understand that they are still learning. In short, empathy is a
very important characteristic the teacher must have.
5. - How could you check and evaluate the learning progress of your trainees during the
training?
Checking and evaluating the progress of a language learner can be made in two different
ways: quantitative and qualitative. In the first one we can use numbers, I mean a grade.
In this case we can use coevalutions, heteroevaluations and self evaluations. In the
qualitative way, we can refer to progressive characteristics of the students, I mean his
skills, his pronunciation, his security when talking, his listening. All the characteristics
that can not measure with a number, even his acceptance with the class.
6.-How can you improve the learner autonomy of your trainees?
Self-study is a very important phase in the learning language process, so it is a need to
motive and encourage your students to learn everywhere, everytime and anyway. They
need to be motivated when learning. They need to learn from television, from radio, from
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magazines, from film, from music, even from their classmates. They need to have the like
or the necessity for learning a new language. They need to know that knowledge may
come from any place.
7.- Which resources(materials,books,websites,articles,methods,visual material,etc) do
you already have relating to the five content areas?
Since I have been working for a long time, I have many grammar books, self-study
books, workbooks, students´ book, flash cards, worksheets, and visual material. I am
sure they are very helpful for solving current problems out. Nowadays there is so much
information on the websites too.
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