LESSON 21 - 20/10/2015

LESSON 21

Brief description about the class

In this class, the presentations have begun. We have attended two different presentations. 

The first one has been about "The young language learners". Our partners have exposed many things related to this theme (characteristics, advises, attitudes, arrengement of the desks...), and they have done some activities, like listen a song and use flashcards to repeat the animals sounds, watch a video about what people do during the week and complete sentences related to it...

The second one has been about "How children learn a language in Pre-Primary education". They have talked about many things like factors that influence in the acquisition of a foreign language...

What I' ve learnt

With both expositions, I have learnt lots of things, mainly that it is pretty important to teach a foreign language since Pre-Primary education and young learners.

I have learnt more about children who are between 5 to 10 years. For example, with children who are between 5 to 7 can use logical reasoning, physical world is dominant at all times...Children who are between 8 to 10 can work with others and learn from others, ask questions all the time...

As teachers, we have to know that teaching in a funny way improves that children learn easier. So, it is useful to have a lot of resources like games, songs...to use in our classes. Probably, using those tools, children want, little by little, learn more about languages.

My personal opinion

I think that in these classes, we learn a lot, because our classmates explain us some interesting themes in order to know more things about English or foreign languages and how to teach them. We can take ideas related with the activities they do to apply them in our future as teachers.

Also, I think that our classmates presentations are more motivating than the professor explanations. 

I want to highlight that I have found very interesting what Pre-Primary group have used: A person who was dressed up of Sullivan (Monsters S.A). It is very interesting and motivating to children.