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WEEK 10      

                                                                                                              

DATE 3/11/2012        

                                                                                                                               

Comet – Learning English through content and literature

We had the pleasure to have two speakers, Jane Howes and Peter Loveday, talking about aspects related with the education and teaching in English.

The first point was sharing our experimental learning. The activity consisted, in pairs, to analyze the positive and negative aspects of children textbooks, based on our experience. Unfortunately, most of these points were negative. Jane recommended us to present the exercises to children without opening the book. For example, preparing the images apart, writing a poem in the blackboard and to the exercise all together, before to open the book.

The second point was the communicative methodology. They gave us some advices and explained their experience, and we shared opinion. In the third point we talked about CLIL, where we saw two important concepts as:

TAVI – Text As Vehicle for Information

TALO – Text As Linguistic Object

After that, we saw and analyze different English activities for children. Some of the parts we did it working in pairs our groups, and then sharing with the rest of the class group.

I think it’s productive to have some real experiences of English teachers, which can show us the reality in class and give us advices and tools to teach this language.