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

After having been seing information about Carol Read through a lot of articles, videos... and so on, here I've got her blog for us to use as a resource too. I've been reading some entries and they're really interesting!

thanks for sharing Gloria,!! I really like the blog ;) it's really interesting

Hi classmates! This is my second contribution in diigo and I have seen very useful to set the difference between evaluation and assessment. These terms are quite different. What is the purpose? Firstly, the purpose of assessment is improve the quality of future performances work product, skill in order to offer feedback to document strengths and growth and to provide directives for improving future performance. Assessments are nonjudgmental and are designed and intended to be helpful to produce improvement. On the other hand, the purpose of evaluation is determine the quality of the present performance, work product or use of skills against a set of standards. Evaluations are designed for and intended to document the level of achievement that has been attained. I hope you find it useful!

Teachers are always making judgments and evaluating constantly during lessons (children's responses to questions, what questions they ask, how they are working…) and this is a critical process to inform planning and to further learning. Nevertheless, in all these interactions the teacher is the centre, the only one who interprets. The children should also be aware of what they know. Therefore, they need our help. So, assessment should be a key.

Hi again! I was looking for information about rubrics and I've found this link so I decided to share with us. I hope you find it an interesting tool :D

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/a-few-tips-on-how-to-learn-vocabulary/ http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/vocabulary_tips.htm Hii! I'd like to share with us these two websites about vocabulary.

Hi again! i found this document in which it talk about the misbehavior of students and futhermore, it offer some strategies to solve this behaviors.

hi guys!!! this article represents the range of functions and notions that learners should be able to use to function effectively and efficiently at level 1

Thanks, Raquel, for this document; if you want further info on functions & notions from A1 through to B2 levels, visit: http://pearsonpte.com/PTEGeneral/Pages/resources.aspx

thanks, Elvira

Hi guys! surfing on the net I've found this website there are articles, resources... I hope you find it useful!!!

"FLEvideo y ESLvideo son dos aplicaciones web que nos permiten crear y publicar cuestionarios a partir de vídeos de Youtube, DailyMotion, etc.. En principio, estas herramientas están orientadas para la enseñanza del francés como lengua extranjera (Français Langue Étrangère) y del inglés (English as Second Language) pero pueden servir para cualquier área de conocimiento."

"This site offers 12 simple and easy online image editing tools."

Here you'll find some scripts if you think about using drama in the EFL classroom.

Resource for ESL/EFL teachers who want to learn how to incorporate drama into their classroom

Interesante material TIC.

Very useful web for creating innovative English classes.

I'd like to share this link with you as it looks like an interesting Magazine for teachers. You'll find information about webinars and teacher training, teachers experiences and opinions, classroom activities (just in case that you run out of ideas;) ) and printables...

Hello everyone! I have found this page where we can design our own flashcards. I find this page very interesting because we can choose images from the library to make the flashcards ans also we can draw our own images. We can add text and phonemic script too. I hope you find it useful and interesting!

Hi Yolanda! Thank you very much for sharing this page with us in which we can design our own flashcards. I consider that it is essential to use resources and teaching materials because they are fundamental tools for the development and enrichment of the teaching-learning process of the students. And it can help teachers to teach their class, improve or it can support their work. Thank you again for sharing it! :)

Hi everyone! I want to share with you this amazing video that can help us for a better understanding of this approach that we studied in the topic three of the subject "Desarrollo del currículo de Lengua Extranjera". The following video is about "the communicative approach to language teaching". The focus of this approach is on communication, it also promotes interaction, genuine everyday language is emphasized, language items are select on the basic of what the learner need to know in order to get things done through language (in order to perform linguistic functions) and it aim to have students communicative effectively and in a manner appropriate to the context they are in. Therefore, Communicative Approach should be guided by these principles: * The information gap principle. * The information transfer principle (from one format to another). * The correction for content principle. Finally, I attach some links in which there are information gap activities: http://ed5.booksearch.waidev2.com/php/DOCS/RICHMOND_elt_books2/189---tryLinkPDF.pdf http://files.school-collection.edu.ru/dlrstore/e081a2a0-445f-4103-a27b-14c1de09c006/NME5_InfoGap.pdf I hope that this material can be useful for us. Till the next! :)

Hello classmates! This is a page where we can find many resources available to facilitate the learning of our students and to facilitate our practice in the classes. We can find flashcards, worksheets, videos, projects… I hope you find it useful!

Hello again! In class, I have seen the importance about speaking and oral interaction skills in our classes, and searching on the internet I have found an interesting article. I believe that, I should create more speaking and oral interaction activities, because these kinds of activities are not common in current lessons. We have to train our learners in filling the gaps of their oral language by using gestures, fillers, more simple words, etc. Also, we can work this area with visual aids as flashcards. And above all, it is more dynamic that writing skill. However, as a language teacher it's really important to know what counts as speaking in language learning and how to promote such skills. Then, I attach two links in which there are activities for improve the skill of speaking and oral interaction: http://www.cal.org/caela/tools/program_development/elltoolkit/Part2-41Interaction&Communication.pdf http://www.sydneyr.det.nsw.edu.au/equity/documents/ESLEd/Some-examples-of-communicative-activities.pdf I hope you find it useful! :)

Hello classmates! Last year, I took this book from the library as a present by book's day, and this year, I found it very useful because in this book appear a lot of strategies that teachers have to carry on in their classroom. I hope you liked it.

"The quality of our teaching inevitably has an impact on the behaviour of our students. This unit considers some of the factors that can contribute to misbehaviour in the classroom and some of the steps that we can take as teachers to re-engage students with the learning process. This unit considers the format of lessons, how lessons are delivered, how to present lesson content in an interesting and creative way, and the development of "engaging lessons"."