week3

Help students to develop their listening skill(Gabriela Orellana)

Developing the listening skill has been a big problem for the students during a lot of years, because they have not been taught how to improve their listening.  In fact, in the that teacher have helped them have been useless because teacher use old techniques such as cassettes and old audios to make them fill their book. In my opinion exist a lot of innovate material that can help. Such podcast, that method is very important because the students have the opportunity to communicate with other pupils. Also with this method students might be able to exercise their ear at the time to identify the key words, and difficult conversation to understand. Therefore, if one day  I get the opportunity to teach listening skill, I would like to teach it using the podcast instead of having my student’s wit boring with old listening’s audios. Furthermore, I consider that teachers have to change the way to teach and create their activity to teach the skills, because sometimes what they do    is not meaningful for the students. To conclude, using the new technology students have a different way to teach with an innovate way and we us futures teachers this will be a big help at the time to make our classes.

week2

Strengths and weakness of our student(Gabriela Orellana)

I really like that Reading because it is very interesting. It is about the motivation in the students, they must become aware that learning depend on them, Students should recognize their strengths and weaknesses. Also, I like when one student stated: I can improve every day if I practice; or if I effort myself, because When the student has a goal, they can achieve it.  Moreover, Teachers can benefit greatly from technological advances to make their work more attractive and to be more efficient. Besides, Technology is very useful for students because they can practice their skills with the purpose of improving it. Reading has a purpose for students to do their self-assessment but to evaluate oneself is not easy, on the contrary, it is very complicated because you have to recognize the mistakes and work so that they do not happen again. Discovering what the areas to be improved are might a challenged for the students, In my opinion teachers should motivate the student to be successful because sometimes students do not have motivation of their family. They feel alone, and sometimes, the teacher must be a lot of roles in the life of the students What do you think? 

week 1

The call method(Gabriela Orellana)


I had never read anything about the computer, but I have previous knowledge about how useful technology is, because nowadays everyone uses the computer to do the tasks. When I started reading the article, I thought I was talking only about computers, the internet never imagined that it would focus much on the teaching area. The article mentions a lot of the work in pairs or groups that the student-student interaction is important but I do not want to say that the teacher is not important because the teacher has a great role. And I consider that the purpose of the article is to forget about the old methods like memorizing concepts, and to face the concept without practicing. It is now important for the student to feel motivated with the class. The majority of students spend on computers. Nowadays it is common for them to use programs to communicate or improve their language learning. In addition, with this reading we note that the students improve their abilities as in speaking because there are programs that can record the voice to see how well they are in the pronunciation another can be listening since there are many exercises that can be heard because there are voices Recordings that give the answers, and other skills.

In my opinion the teaching of languages is evolving because every time has more advantage although not everyone can have the opportunity to have a computer and have access to the internet but if this article as future teachers will help us greatly since we are knowledgeable about the variety Programs or activities we can do to improve language learning.