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

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

Hello!! This article is about Oral Instructions to EFL Young Learners. It is a great way for teachers to get the big picture of classroom management and to know how to control pupils' behaviour, using an according vocabulary.

This article presents a reflection about evaluation process of EFL in Primary Education. It also offers the principles of evaluation, as well as teachers' daily duties,which require them to observe, keep records, and analyze the evaluation process. It deals with the influence that the European Framework has in the evaluation of pupils' capacities in Primary.

I really like the activity that appears on page 72. I think it is an activity that can be used perfectly in class and it can be very useful to teachers in order to know the evolution of their pupils in the five skills. Thanks for this contribution.

As Jorge said, I like so much the activity that appears on page 72, I think that it is really useful for us in the future! I'm going to surfing the internet and I'm going to try found some activities like this!! Good work! =)

Hello mates!! This video is about Classroom management. I think that can be useful to answer questions about how to promote positive behaviour in our classrooms. The ability to control a group of students will depend on the teacher and the measures he/she adopted.

Hello again! This web have links to fun activities that we can use the interactive board. The activities are very visual and they are differentiated by levels. It shows the posibilities offered by this new resource which is also attractive for children.

Hi mattes! You can find here lots of resources to help you learn about appropriate methods of assessment in language classrooms.

Hello class! Here you have a web with interesting documents about diversity. I think it's useful because it presents a very different view of the diversity of "special educational needs". It is intended for foreign language teachers in primary. I hope you like it!

This is a presentation that explains some key concepts of Assessment. What are characteristics of good classroom assessment? The guiding principles that govern good test design, development and analysis are validity, reliability, practicality.

Hello! This is a presentation explaining briefly the Jigsaw method (a cooperative learning method). It includes some pictures, which makes it quite visual.

This article is about the educational uses of Digital Storytelling. Telling and listening to stories is an ancient tradition that can benefit foreign language learners of all ages, languages, and levels of proficiency. Stories contain linguistic, paralinguistic, discourse, and cultural features that provide the comprehensible input and output that students need to develop their oral skills. As with traditional storytelling, you tell stories using computer-based tools, usually contain some mixture of images, text, recorded audio, narration, video clips and/or music.

Hello! This website is devoted to differentiation and is reviewed by Dr. Tomlinson and her colleagues at University of Virginia (USA). You can find resources, sample lesson plans, practical strategies and discussion rooms devoted to differentiation.

Hello everyone! This article is about the Artigal's Method. It is based on short stories that promote communication in the English language throughout staging. Each short story, adapted to the level of the class, presents different didactic material that, by means of characters and their actions, makes children learn without realising it. So, what was senseless for kids at the beginning is at the end something that has sense in the English language, using the English words they have listened, memorized and learned.

This article discusses different types of assessment and recognizes the importance of affective considerations for the acquisition of a foreign or second language.

I find this article quite interesting, especially the last part that talks about the portfolio. I think that the author explains briefly and simply in what it consists. On the other hand, I agree with the writer's conclusions. I strongly believe that we must use various assessment tools in the classroom of FL in order to be as objective as possible and to develop all the skills and abilities of the student. As we have just seen in class the exam tests serves for the memory capacity but does not encourage critical thinking and autonomy on the part of the learner. Thank you so much for sharing it!

This article emphasizes the need for teachers to use a variety of types of alternative assessments. I think it could be quite useful to remind us the different techniques of assessment that we can do and the most important thing: they can be used every day in our class. We have to start to discard the traditional tests that only indicated us a numerical description about our students. In our future we are going to be teachers so we have to be aware of the different kind of assessment to take them into practice. Rather useful the article.