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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