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INDEX

I. The changing world of English

    Why did English become such an important language? Why do you consider it continues being so important? How do you predict the future of English?

II. Lesson plan as a successful tool for teachers

Describe your experience with lesson planning.

a. How useful is lesson planning for teachers?

b. What are the most useful parts in the lesson plan when teaching VYL?

c. What was your own experience with lesson planning?

III. Compare traditional teaching and 21st century teaching.

a) Write out the top ten traits of the 21st century ELT practitioner (teacher’s profile) explain each of them.

b) Describe the salient traits between NESTs and non-NESTs. Provide Reasoning and reflection upon your choice.

(Parts IV, V, VI AND VII are related to the book Teaching English to Children)

IV The Young Learner

    Give a detailed explanation of what the children you taught were like.

    Compare and contrast your Ss´ characteristics to the ones described in the chapter

V. Listening, Oral Work, Reading, and Writing

Describe your own experiences when teaching these skills. Which is the most difficult skill to teach? Contrast your own experience as a Kinder garden teacher in El Salvador with the theory given in the books.

Which of activities featured on chapters 3 through 6 did you try in your classes? Did they work? Explain why they did or didn’t work. Did you make any changes to the activities? Explain which changes you made, and how they affected the way you ran the activity.

VI. When things go wrong in class

Look at the list of things that can go wrong in a class.

o There was an internal disturbance.

o There was an external disturbance.

o The class went out of control.

o An activity took too long.

o You had extra time.

o An activity didn’t work

o An activity was too difficult.

Which of these situations did you face in your teaching practicum?

Describe what happened in and how you dealt with it.

Did you follow any of the tips presented on chapter 8? Do you think the tip(s) could have worked for you? Explain.

VII. The tools of the trade

    From this chapter, choose the tools that you used in your class, and describe the activities that you used them for.

    Classify all the tools in this chapter into useful and useless in our environment. Provide the reason why you made such distinction.

    Make three collages of the nine TVYL presentations (pics). Reflect upon the top three chapters you would incorporate in your own practicum and you would leave the others aside.

VIII. Write an assessment about how useful the TVYL practice is in your way to become an ELT teacher.

    In this section, you will evaluate yourself in terms of language students and of English student teachers. How have you improved in your English Proficiency? How do you see yourself as a teacher now that you have some experience in the field?

IX. Of all the classroom materials and other resources that were studied in class, state and explain their advantages and disadvantages as well as which the most useful ones are.

X. Self-assessment and evaluation of your own learning in this course / recommendations to better this teacher training course

KNOW US

UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR 

WESTERN MULTIDISCIPLINARY CAMPUS 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

                                     

Subject:

Didactics of the English Language I

Group: 3

Topic:Collaborative E-folio 

Teacher’s Name: Licda. Brenda Batres

                                                            

     

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