1) The student completed a practicum teaching English as a foreign language to primary students where she provided lessons and observations. 2) During her practicum, she learned the importance of considering students' interests and appropriate contexts and contents when planning lessons. She found students enjoyed activities about famous people. 3) Through feedback, she realized one of her weaknesses was overusing Spanish and needs to expose students to more English.

1. Subject:PrácticaDocente ll
Tutor: AureliaVelázquez
Student:MarielaGiselaIannaci
The Reflective Cycle.
CONCRETE EXPERIENCE – What did I do?
To begin with, the main aim of this experience was to teach English as a foreign
language in Primary level. To do this, I made observations, provided
assistantships and finally gave seven classes so as to complete my practicum.
Throughout my practicum, I learnt that lessons take a long time to plan. There
are many aspects that I have to consider before planning my lessons. For
example, I learnt that I have to bear in mind essential aspects such as students´
interests and appropriate contexts and contents.
REFLECTIVE OBSERVATION – How did I do it?
While doing my practicum, I found out that students loved doing activities
related to famous people. Consequently, I became aware that planning
meaningful and enjoyable activities are vital to help students learn English in a
better way. For this reason, I decided to plan activities based on what students
liked in all the lessons.
During my practicums, I often had to resort to L1 to explain the activities
because I felt that often, students were not able to understand me. However, I
became aware of my mistake when I considered the teacher´s feedback in which
she told me that I had to avoid using Spanish. For this reason, I strongly believe
that it is one of the weaknesses I have to overcome in my teaching practice.
ABSTRACT CONCEPTUALIZATION – What can I do differently? and ACTIVE
EXPERIMENTATION – What plan should I implement?
Taking account what I have mentioned before, I know that I have to make
changes to improve my teaching in the future. For instance, I should expose
students to as much English as possible. Firstly, I should speak English from the
start to help students become familiar with the foreign language. Secondly, I
should provide students with the necessary support, such as visual aids,
gestures, facial signs and sounds to help them understand English in a better
way. Thirdly, I should encourage them to use the target language in every
lesson. Since students always experience anxiety, fear or shame when speaking

2. Subject:PrácticaDocente ll
Tutor: AureliaVelázquez
Student:MarielaGiselaIannaci
English, I should use more fun activities and games to help them increase their
confidence in the use of the target language.
To conclude, I feel certain that my practicum experience has enriched my
teaching practice greatly. I know that I had some drawbacks during my teaching
experience, but I believe that mistakes are part of my process to become the
outstanding English teacher I want to be. I will always try to overcome my
mistakes and avoid repeating them in the future. In my opinion, it was an
amazing experience which has taught me a lot. Not only did students learn
English from my teaching, but I also learnt to teach them in a meaningful and
enjoyable way.