Monday, August 31st, 2015

Journal (Study Skills)

On Monday when the teacher came in the classroom we were going to
talk about the word and the quote of the day so she gave us some time
in groups so we can talk about them.
Our word of the week was Empathy which means the capacity to
understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the
other person's frame of reference, the capacity to place oneself in
another's shoes.
The English word is derived from Ancient Greek and the term was
adapted by Hermann Lotze and Robert Vischer to create the German
word Einfhlung ("feeling into"), which was translated by Edward B.
Titchener into the English term empathy.
Example:
As an expression of her empathy, she will often apologize even when she
has done nothing wrong.
And our quote for the week was:
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we create them
- Albert Einstein
After we were going to share them to the class but we had to go to the
auditorium (polideportivo) to a conference for the opening of the school
year.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015

Iliana Lizeth Garcia Quintero

Journal (Study Skills)

This day we start with a task were we had to discuss in groups how did
you feel about listening skills when you were at high school? then every
group shared their experience. In my case when I was in high school it
was easy for me because I already knew English so when the teacher
was talking or explaining something in class I could understand
everything she was trying to say. Sometimes we worked with audios and
it was also easy for me to understand them but there were occasions
were the speaking was very fast and they have a different pronunciation.
An experience I had was also that there were some bad teachers and the
students knew more that the teacher. However I feel really comfortable
about listening skill in high school.
After that we start with some PowerPoint presentation where we saw six
different points about listening skill.
Nature of speaking

Importance of understand the concept

Teachers must understand their learners abilities

Why do we need to develop listening skill?

If someone is giving you a opinion, you have to be able understand

in order to respond
Need to have a real life meaning

Theories I consider when I develop listening skill

Keeping in mind that listening is an active process

Piaget believed that young learners constructs
understanding over time

or

build

Some considerations for classroom listening

Give the children confidence

Help children develop specific strategies for listening
Set specific listening task

What do I do to be more comprehensible?

Emphasize key words

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Keep sentence short and grammatically simple

Limiting the topic talked about to what is familiar

Conclusion

listening is an active process

ensure comprehensible material

Finally we had a team work:

What you have learned in this lesson?

We learned that in the classroom for students is basically understand the

main idea of what the teacher is talking about and what is its purpose
and for teachers to adapt the language according to the students age
and knowledge, for example if the topic has to be with science dont use
scientific words they are not going to know the mining or include
synonyms of them so it would be easier for the students to understand.

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