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Thursday, January 25, 2007

FOURTH DRAFT

At the moment of teaching English as a second language to high school students, it has to take into account the motivation as a relevant factor into the learning process of any language. acording to ( Crookes and Schmidt, 1991), "Motivation has been identified as the learner's orientation with regard to the goal of learning a second language". It is well known that students who are most successful when learning a foreign language are those who like the people that speak the language, admire the culture and have a desire to become familiar with that language. However, nowadays some teachers consider that teaching English as a foreign language is a matter of writting some grammar rules on a blackboard and memorizing some verbs or repeating some phrases, without take into account that this way of teaching English may turn into a boring experience for young students. In order to make an interesting class in an interactive and dynamic way without monotony, teachers need to put a great deal of thought into developing programs which maintain to the students interested and then they will obtain more goals. Therefore, it is advisable to plan the class, to make dynamic strategies and use audiovisual aids.


Fisrt of all, teachers must gain the learner's attention by planning stimulating activities and using a variety af teaching strategies. Teachers must design a great variety of teaching strategies adapted to the necesities of high school students in order to keep their attention, in a confident enviroment to obtain as a result the satisfaction of the teenagers and at the same time, the teachers may get result and students may be able to do good things at the end of the lesson that they couldn't do before that class.


Second of all, there are a lot of dynamic strategies like games, songs, workshops, speeches,etc. that can provideto develop the student's speaking skills and increasing their motivation. for instance, when students sing a song, they are developing different skills and also they get familiar with some phrases and, at the same time, they get a meaningful learning of English language. Also, the speeches improve their speaking abilities without fear to commit mistakes and the same thing happens with games because teachers can use their strategy to explain some grammar rules in order to motivate their students to participate in all the activities.

third, there are different audiovisual aids as computers, DVD player, CD player and overhead projector,etc. that can help the teacher to make a more dynamic class. Also, these resources can contribute to improve the student's abilities and let them the opportunity to learn a foreign language in an interesting way without monotony. For high school students is easier to relate an image, a movie, oral music and read a grammatical structure. For instance, Prof. Gómez A. who graduated as an English professor, used to bring a CD player to the university in order to plays any song that contained new vocabulary or some grammar structures related to each one lesson in class.
Teachers should select the resources very carefully because if the teacher dosen't choose the adequate resource, it mighy be hard to capture the teenagers attention and also they loss the motivation of learning English.It must create a narrow link between the student and the audiovisual aids in order to get positive results.

Friday, January 12, 2007

BODY PARAGRAPH SECOND DRAFT


Some teachers consider that teach English as a foreign language for teenagers is a matter of writing some grammar rules on a blackboard and memorizing some verbs or repeat some phrases, however this way of teaching English may turn into a boring experience for students because they loss motivation which result very difficult for a teacher to catch the attention or the students. The teacher should get the attention of the students, in order to make the class more interesting and the way to achieve that, it's teaching in an interactive and dynamic way. Therefore, it is audiovisual aids to agree on Callum Robertson (2006), who he sdays, "what ever the level of the experience, it's important that all teachers take time trough their lesson before they enter the classroom"...this is a very important point to take into account because teachers needs to identify his o her aims for each class they must know what it is they want their students to be able to do at the end of the lesson that they couldn't do before that class. Planning should give the teacher the opportunity to predict possible problems and therefore consider solutions, in order to be prepared for any situation.
Second of all, there a lot dynamic strategies like games, role plays, workshops, speeches, etc. that can provide to develop their speaking skills and increasing their motivation, for instance, when the students develop a roleplay their speaking fluency increase and also they are going to get familiar with some phrases and at the same time they are geting a significant learning of English language, also the speeches improve their speaking abilities without fear to commit mistakes.
Regarding to audiovisual aids like computer,DVD player, CD player and overhead projector etc.are the most important tools for an English teacher, because for young people is easier to relate an image, a movie or a song with a grammatical structure. These resources can contribute to improve the student's abilities and also let them the opportunity to learn a foreign language in an interesting and fresh way without monotony. Teachers have to select the resource very carefully by the contrary, if the teacher doesn't choose the adequate resource might be hard to capture the student's attention and also loss their motivation it must create a narrow link between the student and the audiovisual aid in orde to get a positive answer.