Mención de Lengua Extranjera 2012-2013 (UMA) (Grupo de Tarde

Hi everyone! A well planned lesson is essential if we want are students to become successful, so we have found a short but clear video that explains the lesson planning process and some of the aspects we should take into account if we want our planning to become effective.

Hello group! We have found an interesting PDF about classroom management and its connection with creating a positive learning environment. Usually classroom management is related to discipline and class control but with this PDF you will realize that a good lesson planning can provide a positive atmosphere in the classroom.

This is an academic paper which discusses learner-centred curriculum development.

Hi class: This is a about Storytelling. Storytelling is an art that has mental, social and educational benefits on children. People of all ages love stories. Children are great fans of stories and love to listen to them. Storytelling literally means reading out stories to them or just telling a story from the memory to them. I think this is an important resource for teaching EFL.

Very interesting and useful! i add to my collection of resources and readings :)

Hi mates! This interesting article is about how Technology is starting to change language-learning. For example how thanks to Skype, you can have face-to-face lessons with native speakers of more or less any language without stirring from your chair. I wish you enjoy it!

I post this article because I've found it interesting. It talks about the importance of effective classroom management. It mixes a lot of things when it talks about the topic, not only about students and their bechavoir but you can find a curious relation between teacher behaviour and the topic aswell. Moreover the article talks about reserch and recommendations for improving teacher preparation in classroom management.what can be useful for us to know. I think it could help to have a different idea about the topic. Hope it can help you!

Hi mates, I want share a page with you that is really useful for the teachers, I never had listened speak about it. This page going to allow you work of a very easy way the foreign language with very useful watchings, readings, writings, speakings... You will can work with dinamic and motivate activities all the skills with your pupils, I'm sure that the guys will enjoy while they learn. You can also press the button "teaching english" and the page will take a teachers profile and you can found other very useful resources. I know that this page goes a little out of the script of our contributions in Diigo, I know that it's a very practical page, but I considered that I should share it with my classmates, I believe that this kind of page should also be shared here in Diigo. THANKS SO MUCH!

I found an interesting article on lesson planning. This article gives us some guidelines and interesting things to think about when planning a lesson such as the grammar knowledge and its effect on fluency. They pay a lot of attention to the importance of fluency activities, something that hasn´t come forward in our classes and that is not taken into account very often in the classroom. And fluency is exactly the reason why we are teaching/learning foreign languages. Fluency is what students need to be able to communicate with native speakers or speakers from other countries.

I think this is an interesting article on approaches and methods because it gives us a clear and understandable view about these concepts. We learned about different approaches last year and this article gives us a small review and some different angles to see the need and use of knowing these concepts. The article also explains other concepts like syllabus, teacher´s role, materials… After reading this article I came to the conclusion that we shouldn´t focus on one approach but maybe take some parts of different approaches and methods. The key to being a good teacher is keep looking for the method that works best for you and your students with the help of what has been used and what we are being taught.

Hello every one!! I found out a page where there are a lot of information and examples of rubrics. You can use it to take ideas, and also you can make your own rubrics because in the bottom of the page you can found resources to do it.

Some strategies for assessment with their explanations 

Hi classmates! this web page I found it when I started to teaching in my free-time. I think that it is a good page because if you aren't creative you can use pictures and tools for this web page. There are a lot of pictures, flash card, little stories and a lot of thing... I think that it can result useful. I hope that you see it!

I like to much this page in order than you can teach some vocabulary exercises in a funny way. For example if you explaining the lesson about sport, you can use the crossword that the web offers. Also you can work other difficult tasks as irregular verbs in a funny way. The student learn better if they enjoy it. Good work and thanks!

but not only there are crosswords, there are a lot of activities, like a telling in a photocopiable, functions, notions... I liked it so much! and I use it a lot of time!

We are learning a lot about competences: the common european framework of reference and its general competences, the andalusian legislation and its general competences, etc. This article might help you a bit to understand these different concepts. The article makes a link and discribes everything. At the end there are some activities that can help you to find out if you understood everything.

I want to share this article as a last point of view of self-assessment. For all my classmates who still have doubts. There are some examples of rubrics for techers, to value their own work in a course, in a lesson... These rubrics do reference to different aspects/domains like Planning, the Environment, the Teaching/Learning process and Professional development. We can found in each rubric the aspects that a teacher must to carry out to get a distinguished process.

Good evening people! I want to show you an interesting article. This is a very complete article about Total Physical Response. I have searched about this topic, because was one of the most attractive contents that we learnt the last year. In this article we can see all about TPR, why we must to apply it in young children, what is TPR, its main characteristics, advantages and there are even examples to develop this method in class, linked to storytelling. With this method, children can learn by a motivate and dynamic way, as you already know. Only with a friendly environment, some coloured cards and the leading of the teacher, the pupils can enjoy much.

Hello! I found an amazing website about an interesting method of second language teaching. The website has a lot of information explained very clearly with videos, graphics, and schemes. This method is really good to get the best of each pupil, each rhythm of learning and give everybody the same opportunities. You can take many ideas!!! Enjoy it and learn a lot!!!