The document discusses the importance of English, basic concepts related to language, communication, teaching, and learning. It notes that English has become important globally for business, education, and tourism. It is also emphasized as important for Mexicans to advance professionally due to economic ties with the United States. Key concepts covered include language as a means of communication, the importance of skills like listening and speaking for collaboration, and teaching and learning as an interactive process that helps acquire knowledge and skills.

1. DIPLOMADO DE INGLÉS POR
COMPETENCIAS
UABC
“ Importance of English”
“Basic concepts”
By:
Ana Arballo
Ariane Villavicencio

2. English around the world.
English in Mexico
Language, communication, teaching, learning.

3. • The necessity to communicate in English has become a place
common in the business, policy, education, medicine, trips and
Importance tourism among others and this is not going to change.
of English • The fact that the world has reached a transformative moment in
a long process is remarkable enough, but even more remarkable
in the is the idea that rapid change will not now be a permanent feature
of global life, rather it is a consequence of the transitions towards
a new and more settled world order, with quite different
World cultural, economic and linguist landscapes.
• The companies depend more and more on the electronic mail and
Internet, means in which the dominant language is the English.

4. • Speaking English is an absolute requirement for
Mexican citizens who wish to advance in a
professional field. Because of close ties with the
United States, many Mexican companies conduct a
certain amount of their business in English.
Importance • The Mexican people have had that to face a world
of English environmental of intense competence; because the
negotiation with the other countries, the North
American Trade Free Agreements (NAFTA) it brought
in México important changes in the
economic, commercial, social and educational areas.
• Here in México the people who uses the English
language continues growing day after day, it is the
language in which the international business are
carried out.

5. CONCEPTS…
Language Communication
Teaching Learning

6. LANGUAGE:
Language
Means to
communica
te
ideas, forgi
ng
relationshi
ps.
Vigostky In educational
(1978): context
“Children language is
solve practical important for
tasks with the comprehensio
help of speech n and using
(…)” knowledge.

7. Process by which
we assign
meaning to
create
understanding.
Requires skills:
Processing
Collaboration
Communica Listening
and
tion Observing
cooperation
Speaking
analizing
In classroom:
Learning
becomes
easier, goals
acomplished, bet
ter connection.

8. LEARNING:
Helps to Acquisition Everything
make of we do to
informed knowledge reinvent
choices. or skills your
through knowledge.
education or
experiences.

9. TEACHING…
Make the
educational
experience a better
form to
learn, implement
important
teaching tools
Over the last
Interaction of a decade, though
teacher and a important new tools
student over a have emerged for the
subject. teaching and
learning
Teaching

10.  'Martin himself is a former teacher. He likes the
oyster and sausage analogy to teaching. Some
teachers and professors treat students like
sausages to be stuffed with information; great
teachers treat students like oysters, they
stimulate, explore and maybe even irritate and
every so often they produce a pearl’.
 -Anonynous-

11. • The change over the years has to make
the people change with the
development in all areas, now the
future will depend of knowledge, and
English is with knowledge people will have the
capacity to communicate.
• As we could see these concepts also work
as a process and they complete each
other, changing everyday, improving each
other as well.
• We need language to be able to
Language, commu communicate, we also need language and
nication, Teachin communication to work in teaching and
g & Learning learning.

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