REPUBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA.
UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR.
INSTITUTO PEDAGOGICO "RAFAEL ALBERTO ESCOBAR LARA
DEPARTAMENTO DE INGLES.
ASIGNATURA:READING AND WRITING I.
SECTION 851.
ALUMNA: Briseida Sánchez M.



FIRST DRAFT OF MY INDIVIDUAL ESSAY

VIDEOGAMES MAY BE HARMFUL TO CHILDREN

Over the last thirty years, playing videogames had become a preferred chilhood leisure activity.Children in our culture grow up playing videogames in the morning, in the afternoon and often in the evening. There are some kind of videogames that can be good for children, because may be a friendly way of introducing children to computers, and may increase children's hand-eye coordinatioon and attention to detail, but in spite of, parents think that playing videogames may not good for children, they responded with concern about the possible ill effects of the games on children. In fact, videogames may be harmful to children for three reasons:videogames may affect some children's physical funcionating, may lead to poor academic performance and may cause negative effects in children's personalities.

First of all, videogames may affect some children's physical funcionating. Research has documented negative effects of videogames on children's physical health, including obesity, video-induced seizures, and postural, muscular and skeletal disorders, such as tendonitis, nerve compression, carpal tunnel syndrome, triggering epileptic seizures, heart rate and blood pressures changes. However, these effects are not likely to ocurr for most children. The research date suggests that parents should be most concerned about two things: the amount of time that children play and the content of the games that they play.

Second, videogames may lead to poor academic performance. If children spend too many hours playing videogames each day, when they try to do their homework, probably they will be tired.Also they careless their homework and they couldn't conclude their homework on time. Consequently, they will not learn their lessons and could even fail in school.

Finally, videogames may cause negative effects in children's personalities . Violent videogames can:lead to antisocial behavior in children, lead to delinquency, teach children that using violence is an appropiate way to solve problems, allow players to become emotionally involved with their character and take joy in violence.In addition, videogames play on the user's emotions and can be quite addictive.

In conclusion, if children playing videogames too much time, their health and their personalities can be harmed. Futhermore,their progress in their school can be affected. Therefore, parents should limit the time to play videogames and also to select careful the videogames contents that they play.

BODY PARAGRAPH 6th draft ( WITH CONCLUSION)

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. According to Crookes and Schmidt (1991) document on line, "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 is a matter of writing some grammar rules on a blackboard and memorizing some verbs or repeating some phrases, without taking to account that this way of teaching English may turn into a boring experience for teenagers. 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 get more goals. To do so, it is advisable to plan the class, to make dynamic strategies and use audiovisual aids.

First of all,teachers must gain the learner's attention by planning stimulating. Teachers must design a great variety of teaching strategies adapted to the necessities of high school students in order to keep their attention, in a confident enviroment to obtain as a result the satisfaction of the teenagers. An excellent stimulating activity, could be some form of reward for students when they do their works well, for example, a reward can be candies, stickers, gifts like pencils, an eraser a little or making them happy by showing that the teacher see their effort to succeed teenagers feel far more motivated to come to classes, to participate and as they see that their teacher loves them and values their effort also students feel rewarded when teacher say Congratulations! this is excellent work! or something like that in the class book at the same times parents can take notice of them too.

Second of all, there are a lot of dynamic strategies like games, songs,workshops, speeches,etc, that increase the student's motivation. For instance, when students sing or translate their favorite song, they feel identified with the content or the topic of that song and also they get familiar with some phrases and, while they obtain a meaningful learning of English language. Also, the speeches serve to encourage the teenager to speak without fear to mistakes and the same thing happens with games because teachers can use this strategy to explain some grammar rules in a very interactive way in order to the student participate in all the activities. The dynamic strategies serve to turn a class into a funny ecperience. In a friendly enviroment for high school students which is very profitable for the teacher, because teachers cath the attention of the young students by stimulating while student feel pleasant.

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 let the high school student opportunity to learn a foreign language in an interesting way without monotony. For high school students is easier to relate an image, a movie, or music and read a grammatical structure. But the audiovisual aids are also profitable for teachers as a tool; for instance if a teacher has a strategy as a role-play and teacher can take photos which later are given to them or film the situation and the students and teachers may watch the video together and share opinions about their performances in order to create a narrrow link between teachers, students trough and audiovisual aid.

All these experiences before reading show us how important is planning the class; make dynamic strategies and the use of audiovisual aids. Into the process of motivate our students to learn a second language. Remember what Crookes and Schmidt said "Motivation has been identified as the learner's orientation with regard to the goal of learning a second language". In simpler terms motivation is the key for learners of a language it doesn't matter what language is.

BODY PARAGRAPH (5th 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. According 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 is a matter of writing 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 turning into a boring experience for teenagers. 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 the students interested and then they will obtain more goals. To do so, it is advisable to plan the class, to make dynamic strategies and the audiovisual aids.

First of all, teachers must gain the learner's attention by planning stimulating activities and using a variety of teaching strategies. Teachers must design a great variety of teaching strategies adapted to the necessities of high school student in order to keep their attention, in a confident enviroment to obtain as a result the satisfaction of the teenagers. An excellent teaching strategy, could be some form of reward for students when they do their work well,for example, a reward can be candies, stickers, gifts like pencils, an eraser a little or making them happy by showing that the teacher see their effort to succeed teeenagers feel far more motivated to come class, to participate and as they see that their teacher loves them and values their effort also students feel rewarded when they teacher say Congratulations¡. This is excellent work¡ or something like that in the class book and at the same time parents can take notice of them too.

Second of all, there are a lot of dynamic strategies like games, songs, workshop, speeches, etc, that increase their motivation. For instance, when students sing or translate their favorite song, they feel identified with the content or the topic of that song and also they get familiar with some phrases and while they get a meaningful learning of English language. Also, the speeches serve to encourage the teenager to speak without fear to commit mistakes and the same thing happens with games because teachers can use this strategy to explain some grammar rules in a very interactive way in class into a funny experience .In a friendly enviroment for high school students which is a very profitable for the teacher, because teachers catch the attention of the young students by simulating while the students feel pleasant.

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 let the high school student opportunity to learn a foreign language in an interesting way without monotony. For high school students it easier to relate an image, a movie, or music and read a grammatical structure. But the audiovisual aids are also profitable for teachers as a tool.For instance if a teacher has a strategy as a role play and teacher can take photos which later are given to them or film the situation and the students and teachers may see the video together and share opinions about their performances in order to create a narrow link between teachers, students trough and audiovisual aid.