TEACHING TIPS

To help children when learn a new language teachers should:

1. Use English in class as the main language for communication.
2. Use gestures, actions and pictures to help children understand you.
3. Use gestures, actions and pictures to help children understand you.
4. Children need to talk in order to learn - let children use their mother tongue for communication especially to star with.
5. Recast in English what children say to you in their mother tongue.
6. Answer children in English.
7. Use their mother tongue for support when you do a new activity or if no one understand.
8. Talk a lot in English, they need to hear English.

REMEMBER:

- The more English the children hear, the more they will learn.

- They will learn gradually. Encourage them by responding positively.

- Use their mother tongue for support when you do a new activity.

PRACTICAL HINTS FOR TEACHERS ON CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE

These are some hints for classroom discipline:

1. Start by being firm with students.
2. Get silence before you star speaking.
3. Know and use students' names.
4. Prepare lessons thoroughly.
5. Walk around the class.
6. Maintain interest and curiosity.
7. Speak clearly.
8. make sure your instructions are clear.
9. Have extra material prepared.
10. Look at the class directly when speaking.
11. Make work appropriate to pupils age, abilily, cultural background...
12. Developed the art of timing you lesson.
13. Vary your teaching teachniques.
14. Anticipate discipline problems and act quickly.
15. Avoid confrontations.
16. Clarify fixed rules and standards.
17. Show yourself as supporter and helper.
18. Use humour.
19. Choose topics that will activate students.
20. Be warm and frendly.

An interesting web to have a look: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/discipline.html

AN IDEAL ENGLISH TEACHER

In my opinion an ideal English teacher should be:

- Good communicator. He/she is going to be transmiting, not only speaking.

- Resilient. Consist on performing in different ways. Offer different needs to each student.

- Good command of English. Not only take a dregre, a good teacher should be up to date. Should be known about the different techiques, different ways to teach... not only know the language. Not been a pasive teacher we are involving all the time an a good teacher should know about the changes. Enrich your knowledge.

- A good teacher has to like what he/she is teaching, otherwise students are going to bored and you are not going to motivate them, because you don't like what you are doing. A good teacher should be in love with his/her proffesion, because if you are in love with your proffesion, you can do anything. Be patient.

HOW TO MAKE A LESSON PLAN

These are the steps a teacher have to follow when planning a lesson:

1. Introduction: description of the topic/theme.
2. Justification: learners (how many there are, how the classrrom is, learning conditions...) previous knowledge, timing, methodology, BCD, areas of concren, language required, materials.
3. General objectives (competences): aims
4. Selection of contents: conceptual, procedural, attitudinal.
5. Didactic objectives (specific competences): derived from the general ones and the particular contents of this teaching situation.
6. Methodology: ways of doing and principles your teaching is based on.
7. Activity-design: what?, who?, where?, how?, resources, timing...
8. Evaluation: learner's process of learning, development of the planning, making suggestions, asking for information, likes, dislikes...

If you are interesed in know more about lesson planning have a look at this webs:

http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Guide.shtml

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslplans.html

http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/

http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/planning/plindex.htm

GOLDEN RULES IN LESSON PLANNING

Golden rules when planning a lesson:

1. Always think of the aim before planning a lesson
2. Think of the problems you are likely to encounter when teaching/practising the target language.
3. Always use vocabulary students already know when presenting new structures.
4. Do pronunciation in the class.
5. The most important thing of a language is that you can communicate with it. Students need to practise the language in the classroom to be able to manipulate it when talking freely outside the class. So plan an active lesson, they love standing up and walking round the class talking in English.
6. It is not necessary to practice all 4 skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) in one lesson.
7. Logic steps in a lesson (presentation, controlled practice and free practice).

PLANNING A LESSON

What is planning?
Planning, is the art of combining different elements into a coherent whole, so that students can regognise, react to and work on within.

Before you start a new term, you have to think about how you can:

- Create a pleasant, relaxed atmosphere in your classroom.

- Arrange the room so that it is easy to move around.

- Make sure you have wall space for any displays you want to use and that there is space to put children's items or pictures.

When planning a lesson it is vital that theacher's have a clear idea of the children's levels and needs so that the lessons match their stages of development.

Teachers need to consider:

- Why? (intentions)

- What? (activities, materials...)

- How? (group work, individual work, methodology...)

- When? (Are children ready?, enough challenge?, difficult, easy?)

- Where? (classroom, outside)

When planning a lesson teachers are linking things, they go step by step, working with previous lessons and knowledge in order to help them in their learning process. It is esential to plan anithing that is going to be perform in the classroom.

ELEANIZTASUN PROIEKTUA GURE ESKOLETAN

Azken urteotan, gure eskoletan ingelesa irakasteko proiektu berria ezarri dute. Proiektu hau EAEko eskola publikoetan erabiltzeko egin zuten orain dela urte batzuk, nahiz eta, gaur egun ere eskola guztietan ez erabili.
Proiektu honen arabera, umeek 4 urterekin hasten dira ingelesa ikasten era dinamiko batean.
Nire ustez, irakasle zein ikasleentzako proiektu oso aberasgarria da.
Nik proiektu hau praktiketan nengoenean ezagutzeko aukera izan nuen eta bertako eskolan izandako emaitzak baikorrak izan ziren.
Proiektu honen inguruan informazio zehatzagoa jaso nahi izan ezkero web orrialde honetara jo ezazue.

METHODS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

There are many methods of teaching languages. Some of them are used in schools nowadays, other are not used now, other are only used with some specific things and in other cases teachers use more than one method at the same time.


These are the most important methods when teaching a foreign language in our schools:

- The grammar translation method
- The direct method
- The audio-lingual method
- Communicative language teaching


I have to say that the most common method used in our school is the communicative language teaching method.

WHY, HOW and WHEN CHILDREN SHOULD START TO LEARN A SECOND LANGUAGE

It is very dificult to say why, how and when children should start acquiring a second language. After reading different information about this topic, I think that for children is better if they start learning a new langauge in the early stages of learning process. The earliest they start the easier it is going to be learn it. In the society we life nowadays it is neccesary to know more than just one language in order to be able to interact with different people. For that reason children should start learning it as earlier as the can to become good speakers.
Languages are tougth to children using different programs (flex, fles & inmersion) and each of them are used depending on what you want to teach, in what way.
Parents sometimes think that learn a new language can interfere in the learning process of their mother tongue, but in my opinion learning a new language enrich the mother tongue of the children.

If you want to konw more about this topic that I think is very interesting have a look at this page

Another article about this topic: http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/mother.htm

EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

This is more or less the sumary of the process of early language acquisiton

FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

In my opinion, it is essential to teach a new language with a cultural background in order to learn the foreign language as a whole. What do you think about it? are you agree?

In foreign language learning we can find a lot of components, like grammatical competence, communicative competence, language proficiency, as well as a change attitudes towards different cultures. Foreign language leraning have to be also foreign culture learning, and, culture in my point of view, need totake part in the learning process and teachers should teach it in the foreign language classroom.


If you what to know about some tips for teaching kids a foreign language have a look at this video. http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=yPb6igB9iMc

TEACHING READING FOR AN EARLY AGE

Jakin nahi baduzue zelan irakatzi irakurtzen ume txikiei bideo hau ikusi. Ingelesez dago baina oso interesgarria da beraz, ikustea pena merezi du : http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdkADXsan8

BECOMING BILINGUAL: FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Nowadays all the chidren and adults also are bilingual, and in our case most of us trilinguals. Children acquire the fists language at the early stages of they live. Some of them also acquire the second language at the same time of the fists one, while others acquire it when they start school. There are many difference between children that acquire the first and the second language at the same time and with children that acquire it later. When children aquire the second langue some stages take part in it.

There is a good article about the opinion of Tabor and Snow that expain all about the process of the second language acquisition that is very good. If you want to look at it go to this page: http://www.headstartinfo.org/English_lang_learners_tkit/Bilingual.htm

I also found a good video about the opinios of some parets about this process. I recomend you to have a look at it because is interesting to enrich our knowledge as future teachers: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=kOxBc-LdrKI

If you want to know how to make the first language acquisition more interesting and entertaining for kids go to this page: http://www.spanishworkshopforchildren.com/immersion/method.htm

THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Teach a new language like learning it is a hard-work for teachers and students. Learn a new language is not only be able to communicate in that language. To learn it as a whole more important that teach just the langue is to teach the culture of that. For children is important to know how people of that country
address people, express gratitude, make requests, and agree or disagree with someone. When the learn this kind of thing the not get lost when speaking with native people.
Studying the language, children have to gain a knowledge and understanding of the culture of that langue and this is a work that in my oppinion good teacher should have to do. As we are going to be teachers I think that we need to be aware that children learn easier a language if they learn also the behaviour code of that new language. It is important also to include culture in the foreign language curriculum, because it helps avoid the stereotypes. It gives students to take control of their own learning process.

LANGUAGE AS PART OF CULTURE

Language is part of culture because humans that use the same language also have more or less the same behaviour code. This code generaly should be exclusive of that language. Taking into account this, I can say that people who have not the same behaviour code are not going to speak the same language.
With this I'm not saying that all the people of one country that speaks the same language are going to act all of the in the same way. With this, what I can explain is that one language implies one culture, and all the people of that culture are going to have the say traditions and ways to live and do things.
As we soon are going to be English teachers, I found it neccesary to transfert this topic into the educational system. At the same time that we are teaching the language, we also have to introduce the culture of that place in order to children learn the language as a whole.

This is an intereating book that explain how to teach a language and cultue to chilndren: http://www.cambridge.org/elt/elt_projectpage.asp?id=2500493

WHY LEARN A LANGUAGE?

Learn a new language always is a hard-work for everybody. Learning a new language implies to take time and also effort. But somtimes is essential and becomes neccesary to learn a new language. Above are some reasons people use to learn a language.

• Emigration
  
• Family and friend


• Work


• Study or research


• Travel
  
• Studying aboard


• Secret communication


• Required course


• Revitalizing or reviving your language


• Culture


• Religion
  
• Challenging yourself


• Sounds/looks good to me

If you want to know something more about this topic and some reasons more about why people should start learning a new language go and have a look at this page.

WHAT IS A LANGUAGE?

I can say that language is a system of different element such as symbols or visuals that are used to communicate. This kind of method is always refered to humans, but other animals also use a kind of language to niteract with each other.

We all learn language, but there is something deeply mysterious about language even though we can learn to use it. All of language is "something" standing for "something else". A same word has a different meaning for each person, so one word may have different neanings depending on the culture of that person.

To summarize, I can say that language is more than just communication, it is the primary method people use to communicate together. There are four different stages in language:

• Communication: It's a one-way communication in order to send a message.
• Conversation: It's a two-way communication where both sides fell they understood.
• Collaboration: it implies thinking, planning and making decisions.
• Co-creation: It¡s a joint activity in order to make and do.

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