Mención de Lengua Extranjera 2012-2013 (UMA) (Mañana)

If you experience difficulties when communicating orally in English, this is a must-read for you. This document contains a powerful research about communication and some strategies to master on it.

An interview to a bilingual-speech language pathologist where assessment and instruction strategies for ELL (english language learners) with learning disabilities are discussed An interesting starting point to learn how to deal with L2 students with especialneeds.

Pumkin Online English is a good recourse designed for children who are beginners of English language study, aged 3-10, I find it interesting because this course enables children to master all the key English skills, teaching them the most essential basic English language, "covering over 500 words and sentences including English vocabulary for colors, numbers, body parts, the alphabet and basic sentence and question and answer structure". Furthermore it´s effective because it follows a classroom-tested English language teaching methodology, which includes three steps of English language learning: Presentation, Practice and Production (PPP methodology) of new English vocabulary and grammar. It could be a good supplement to our future pupils in their English language education!

This is a list of patterns derived from existing WebQuests that are instructionally solid. To qualify as a design pattern, the lesson should be easily modified to cover different content while using the same basic structure. This webquests are designed for native english speakers. However I found it really interesting, as it can give you ideas that you could adapt and design your own project. I specially liked "Rediscovering Pompeii: The untold stories from 79" and "Designing a backyard Zen Garden" I hope you like it as much as I did! ;)

"Assessment for learning is the process for seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there" Assessment Reform Group (2002) Really interesting web-site where you'll find some examples of how teachers use Afl, including studentes and teachers rubrics, some scaffolding strategies, materials that they used in their tasks...

Although this site is about assessment (not specifically for the L2), in the matrix you'll find some examples including FL. http://www.assessmentforlearning.edu.au/assessment_tasks/assessment_tasks_landing.html

Hi Ana! I really like your page! because I believe that assessment for learning is very important since the children aware and responsible of the learning process. And in this page we can find some examples of how teachers use AFL. Thanks for this contribution:)

Hi everyone! I want to share with you this amazing page about Phonics materials online. Phonics is a method that we can put into practice in the classroom. I would like to comment briefly some ideas about this method: Phonics is one of the fundamentals methods of learning especially in children. "Phonics is a method that native English speakers use to teach children how to read and write. It is based on the sound of the letters, making the students aware of the existing relation between the phonemes and graphemes, instead of the whole language approach, where words had to be learnt by heart". Furthermore, I would like to know more about what the benefits of phonics are. Although there are alternative methods for teaching children to read and write, phonics is widely regarded as being one of the most effective. Also, allows children to hear phonemes, identify them, and understand how the sounds and their associated letters correlate with one another. The teaching of phonics has been shown to give children a comprehension of how words are constructed very quickly. I hope that this material can be useful for you, see you!

Hello Julia! I found a song related to Jolly Phonics. Here I post the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGpsVmWLRFA I hope you liked it.

Annemarie Sulllivan tals us about key concepts in using higher-order questions. I hope that you can see it and you find it useful

I find this video quite interesting because "higher-order" questions promote learning since these types of questions require students to analyze, evaluate and create information instead of simply recall facts. Higher order thinking is imperative to progress and the best way to acquire Higher Order Thinking Skills is through action learning and practice. Having appreciated the participation, the pupil can then begin to acquire theoretical knowledge too. Thank you so much for sharing it!:)

The link leads you to a Prezi (a sort of powerpoint presentation) which explains the task-based learning approach in an enjoyable way. It describes its main characteristics, some types of tasks, the roles of the teacher and students, the language focus and how to provide feedback.

Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. The "wall" is basically the 'web page' where people actually post messages. We can use Wallwisher for: Brainstorm, Plan events, watch and share videos, keep notes, collect feedback. And in general to teach and learn, you can pose questions, get children answers, and give them feedback, all in the same page. It is very easy to post, you just click double click anywhere on the wall, and people do not need an account to post on a wall. An advantage of this website is that you can use it as a "bookmark favourite sites", you put your links on one wall, can be video links, document links and view them on your wall itself, and therefore it is not necessary to open new pages. A drawback could be that the limit on text is 160 characters, but Wallwisher explains that when they ran their private beta, a rude person hijacked the whole wall pretty much by copy pasting some news articles. For that reason we cannot paste text for our students.

This is a webpage for teachers in whic we can find many proposals about how to implement ICT in our classess and interesting projects around it.

On this page we can find and download any type of sounds by free. It could be useful for support when we introduce vocabulary or for other activities. Imagine!!

We've been talking about CLIN and the importance of working with transversal contents. This webpage allows us to play with maths from adittion till fractions.

This is an interesting webpage in which you can find different quizzes to work with spelling for example, all of them graded, and you can also create your own quiz by free and with any type of subcriptions.

This is a webpage in which we can find resources from any subject in English, about classroom management, assembly ideas, different topics and so on

WebQuests are activities, using internet resources, which encourage students to use higher order thinking skills to solve a real messy problem. When I saw Anna's post, I found it really interesting and I started searching about webquest to know a bit more. Here in this page you can find different webquests for different levels and also you can sing in and create your own ones.

It makes me really happy that you liked my post =) and that you decided to look for further information. I really love webquests, although they won't promote high order thinking skills if they're not used propoerly.

I would like to share with you this site, it is not directly directed to English but is a good video library in which we can find interesting proposals related to the field of education and a lot of innovation approaches, methodologies, projects...

Task based learning offers to the students an opportunity to use the target language as they would do in everyday life using their own one. The task is an activity in which students use the language to achieve a specific outcome. Here you have some useful TBL activities. I hope you find them useful!

This university offers a Master related to CLIL and bilinguism that can be very useful and helpful if you want specialize you in english teaching through a new methodology that has very good results in the students. don´t stay with the doubt and inform you for your professional future!

Hi! I'm going to share this website in which teachers can find a lot of stories to tell their students in class. The stories have a lot of pictures and if you click on some words, you can listen to the pronunciation of them. If you want to listen to the stories and then, check your listening, this website " http://storynory.com/ " could be useful as well. I hope you like them!

I have discovered a funny web page to teach to learn with phonics approach. This page take into account different level; is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool...