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English for waiters

Syllabus 

Cátedra 2

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Nursery SIOP

Glogster & Webquest

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Catedra I

These are the activities that Oscar and I made:

                         Listening Activity

                                     


              Reading activity

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Dialogue

Questions for discussion Box 5.2

1- Some techniques are more popular than others. What are they, and can you account for their popularity?


In my opinion, definition, examples and pictures are the most popular because these techniques together can develop a good adquisition of vocabulary. Definition is the most important because you can undertand the characteristics of the word and its use or function. The examples help to explain the use of the word in a context. Finally, the pictures give a visual example of the word.

2- Are there techniques that are particularly appropiate for the presentation of certain types of words?

I think synonyms are a very good technique to relate some words with other ones and give a better explanation of it.


3- Are there techniques which are likely to be more, or less, appropiate for particular learner populations (young/adult, beginner/advances, different background cultures)?


Yes. There many techniques for everyone. In the case of children, they are likely to learn using pictures, songs and games. On the other hand, adult people use dictionary and book to learn some words and then they practice with written exercises.


4- Do you, as an individual, find that you prefer some kinds of techniques and tend to avoid others? Which? Why? 


Depending on the case, I prefer to use the tecniques named in the firts answer, because they are good enough to understand any word. I don't like using translation because some words could confuse in the moment of translate it.

The landlady activity

http://www.mediafire.com/?7k66z2o10qo8mf0 (here you can download our lesson plan)

Our presentation was not good because it was really boring, and I thought that it was going to be more interesting but I was wrong. However we learned more thing about how to stand in front of the class and what things we have to improve.

Supplementary materials

There are many material that can help to make an interesting class and to get good results in the different skills in a second language. Some examples of these are:

1- Wiki: It's a Website where people can share information about some topic and anyone can contribute more imformation to improve the content of the site.

2- Blog: It's like a "Web log" because here the users can upload photos or information everyday. They can share information about a specific area of interest or just use it to upload personal stuff.

3- Ebook: It's also  known as electronic book. It's a electronic version of a book and you can read it from any computer or system like that.

coursebook

I'll show you my check of the book "Teens Club" 1° Medio:

This book should be used in the course which I'm doing my intership, but they don't use it ,so I'm going to give you my opinion of how could it works in the course.

Syllabus

It is an instrument in which are specified the goals, units, prerequisites, materials and general data about the course. It serves to plan the class along  a determined  time and set goals to achieve for different types of difficulty of the course.  


Some characteristics about the syllabus are: 

1. Time schedule: It helps to keep a order in which content is presented, developed and evaluated.
2. Materials:  it refers to the different types of materials that will be used in theclassroom such as books, cds, etc.
3. Objetives: Are the skills that students sholud be able to handle after have ended the course 
4. Basic information: these are details of the establishment and teacher contacts.

There are 10 different types of syllabuses.

1. Grammatical - deals with grammatical structures.
2. Lexical - lists lexical items.
3. Grammatical-lexical - a mixture of the grammatical and lexical syllabuses.
4. Situational - deal with real-life situations.
5. Topic-based - are based on different topics.
6. Notional - language concepts and vocabulary.
7. Functional-notional - deal with things we can do with language.
8. Mixed - mixture of the previous syllabuses.
9. Procedural - specifies learning tasks.

10. Process - is modified over time.

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Survey results Box 20.2

Acordding to the survey: 

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The results of the survey were very similar in the asnwers of people surveyed. The most of them answered with very much agree and agree. This means that people think that a teacher should be a person  who has control of the class, cares about his/her students and never uses phisical punishment with them. That's good because a good teacher must see his/her students as a person and try them as a person. A good environment makes the class more pleasent and a good deal generates mutual respect.



Teachers  are a role model for their students!

The questions Box 19.1

1.  How important do you think motivation is for sucess in language learning, compared to, for example, language aptitude?

• Motivation is an important factor of  learning in general, because there may be someone who has many aptitudes to generate an appropriate learning, but if he does not have motivation to acquire new knowledge, learning will not be effective because there will be no interest by student to progress. Everybody can get good result but it depends on how motivated is the student.   

      2.    What characteristics and behaviours you associate with the image of a 
             motivated learned? 

• I think that the most visible characteristic is his willingness  to participate in the various activities and the dedication that he employs on them. Because he knows that this will help him to achieve his goals, so he works hard in class and even improve his knowledge on his own

Personality test

Here it's the instrument I made to know some aspect of the personality of a person like self- esteem, anxiety, introvert or extrovert.
Based on the results given by the test we will be able to plan a class that has an appropriate methodology for our students.

• Answer yes/no    

     1. Do you care about the comment that people make about you? Yes O       No O

     2.  Do you feel comfortable with yourself?                                     Yes O       No O

     3.  You know that whatever you propose you can get it                Yes O       No O

     4. Do you like to have a lot of friends?                                          Yes O      No O

     5. You can express your feelings easily                                         Yes O      No O

     6. Do you like to get the attention of the people around you?      Yes O      No O

     7. Do you feel stressed most of the time?                                      Yes O      No O

      8. Is it hard for you stay focused?                                                      Yes O     No O

     9. Do you feel afraid to the moment to talk in front of a big crowd? Yes O     No O

     10. Is it hard for you to share your ideas?                                     Yes O    No O

Myers Braggs Test (CHECK THIS PLEASE)

 

Here's my result of the test

Well I'll start talking about the first point "very expressed introvert". Yes, I know that I'm an introvert person because I'm a quiet guy who don't speak so much in class and I don't sympathize with  big groups of people. Besides I don't show my feeling frequently. In the test says that I'm very expressive.Yes I am, but with people who I trust and they are a small group of persons.

The second point says "slightly expressed intuitive personality". Sometimes I can get  the result of some situation easily without a proccess but not always express my ideas.

The third point "distinctively expressed thinking personality". I agree with this, I have a thinking personality. Most of the time I spend it thinking about situations, future plans, composing song or weird poems where I express my thoughts.

And the last point "slightly expressed perceiving personality". I think I should have had a higher percent in that point because I'm always perceiving things instead of communicating feelings or emotions  within my environment.

I think the test result was near to my personality and I enjoyed doing it.

Personality factors

21/03/2011

The affective domain

When a person starts learning a second language some feeling or emotions may surface, depending on the type of person or personality.

Benjamin Bloom

Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues define an  extended definition of the affective domain in five levels which are interlaced:

1) Receiving: Awareness, willingness to hear, don't avoid it.

2) Responding: Active participation on the parts of the learners. Willing to respond and receive satisfaction from that response.

3) Valuing: The value of a person or behaviour. Acceptance to the more complex state of  commitment.

4) Organization:  The person knows how to organize his values depending on his priorities

5) Value system:  The individual acts based on its already elaborate system of values to express ideas, Belief, etc.

Self-esteem 

It's the evaluative perception of oneself. There are 2 types of self-esteem, low self-esteem and high self-esteem. This may affect the process of acquiring a second language, because people who don't have a high self-esteem tend to distrust their capabilities when they have to show what they know and they don't try toexpose their ideas because they think they will make mistakes, losing the opportunity to correct their real errors.

These are some conditions of self-esteem:

-Anxiety, empathy, inhibition, introvert and extrovert.

All these conditions are related with the type of self-esteem of people and they can help or affect the develop of learning.

The concept of Methodology

15/03/2011

What did I understand?

As I understood Methodology is the study of the different methods that can be used within a discipline to make it more understandable for any type of student who's learning  a lesson of some specialty.

How is this connected to my future teaching experience? 

If I want to be a good teacher, I should know these concepts because they will help me when I have to prepare my class and to make interesting activities achieving the aim of the learning

What are the 3 concepts I would highlight from the lesson?
1) Learning process

2) Methods

3) Types of learning

Second language acquisition & Learning of The Study of Language

14/03/2011

Actually I didn't attend to that class because I hadn't registered the class at that moment. However I got the contents of that class and it was about the Second language acquisition and Learning of the study of language. 


 Second language acquisition is when a language is learned naturally in a gradual process. For example a person who grows up in a social environment where more than one language is used he'll be able to acquire a second language by communicating with people who speak the other language.

When we talk about learning a second language, it applies to a more conscious process of accumulating knowledge of the features, such as vocabulary and grammar, of a language, typically in an institutional setting.

  

Acquisition barriers: These are the constraints that exist at the time to learn a second language such as lack of time, other occupations, and with an already known language available for most of their daily communicative requirements.