Hey everybody I was browsing around the internet and I found this great article about teaching English for those who are English majors and for those who are not just keep it in mind in case you need it in the future.
The article is from Andrew Littlejohn and is called Language Learning Tasks and Education is short so you can read it in minutes.The link is: http://www.cambridge.org/elt/ces/magazine/articles/languagelearning.htm
What really caught my attention in this article are his principles 2 and 3 in which he declares that the progress the students get out of learning comes from content worth learning and for the teacher to use the student’s intelligence.
I am doing my junior field experience and my subject area is Spanish. During the first week I noticed that the students were not interested in the class. The topic was “emotions” and instead of practicing the language the teacher had them drawing. I had my first observation this past Tuesday and I knew I had to do something different so they could learn more instead of just drawing. One of my activities was the creation of a puppet show where I brought some puppets and student had to talk about emotions using the puppets. The class became more active and I made use of the students’ intelligence, creativity and motivation. I know I will not teach English but I will teach a second language and I think that Andrew’ s article and his four principles can be adapted to any second language learning.
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Thank you very much for that link. I am an English Secondary Education major and I thought it was interesting when Andrew Littlejohn mentions, "Whether we are aware of it or not, students will always learn more in their language classes than just language. They will also learn their role in the classroom and (to a greater or lesser extent) pick up values and attitudes from the texts they use...In all likelihood, the work we ask them to do in the classroom will contribute to habits in learning that will remain with them their entire lives." This definitely puts a new spin or brings another perspective to the table when it comes to our Language classes.
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