LARGE GROUPS

I think that large classes as stated in the video, like 70 students in a class are not something strange in our country. Many schools, especially the public ones have lots of students. The problem we have is that students in large classes are commonly not very effective. So it is necessary to use strategies that helps us to teach them. From the strategies that were mentioned, I think that the most important is pedagogical planning. If we plan careful, we can make a large class work. I liked what the woman said about learning students name and finding ways to learn them because it makes them feel important, and to provide them with attention using rotation to give them personalized learning.

About classroom learning systems, I think it is more problematic because the rooms are not designed to have many students and this influence the environment because the students make a lot of noise and disorder. The explanations are important because many times the disorder happens because the students don’t understand the explanations and don’t know what to do, and the teachers many times get angry at the students for not to work. I think it is important to give work to the students who finish before because that`s a reason why students make disorder. It can work to have the best students to help the others, but the problem is that they not always like to help others.

The last point about discipline is also very important because the teacher has to consider to put the rules before the classes begin. If we do this, we think about the things that can happen and how to give them a solution. It is better to be prepared for the circumstances; It can be a central point to manage a large class to allow students to help to make the rules give them more participation and makes them feel included in the decisions the teacher makes. It is important to put the rules on the walls because if not, the students can say they don’t know or don’t remember the rules.

As the video mentions, there are no specific ways to deal with these situations, but by considering these strategies we can improve the way we teach.

Using Internet tools with EFL students.

Using internet tools with EFL students is giving the students an extra and better option to learn the foreign anguage. when a teacher make his/her students to work with internet tools is directly helping the students to develop other skills that they may not be aware that they have them.

I remember when I started using internet tools; it was so difficult for me because I didn`t have experience on computer or things like that. However, it has helped me not only to learn the language but also to be less ignorant related to technology deals.

It`s more than important for a student to be working with internet tools since our new globalized world is demanding people that are at the forefront of technology and its advances. A student must be curious when using internet tools specially if it is related to the learning of the foreign language.

It would be nice if all the teachers in our country were involved into this new useful methodology which make our lives boht less complicated and modernized.

CONTEXTUALIZED LANGUAGE

Teaching under the idea of contextualized languge is something that most of the teachers should take into account in order to get our students to learn better.

Contextualized language is the meaningful language use for real communicative purposes. A teacher must be always applying different techniques to teach English as contextualized language. I think that the learning is better if the students feel familiarized with the topics they are studying. If they enjoy to talk about certain topics they will forget about the stress of learning a new language, and they`ll be focused on the content and their interests. When students feel the need of expresing their thoughts and notice the importance of communicating their feelings verbaly, they get involved into the learning process.In this case they really need a contextualized languge.

It`s true that we can`t expect all our students to be happy with the topics or activities we carry out, but we as teachers should at least try to make our class lively for them. There will always be students complaining and misbehaving because of the teacher`s activities, but the teacher should never give up because of those situations.

I think that in El Salvador we need to apply the contextualized language. Teachers should pay more attention to this issue. In my case (as a student) I learn better if I like what I`m doing; so that I strongly support the idea of contextualized language. Getting our students into real situations allow them to feel, that they are part of a society and a reality. In that way our objectives would be accomplished, and their learning would be affective.