23 dic 2016
21 dic 2016
There are many discussions about andragogy. Some people relate it to adult learning and some other relate it to adult self learning. This comment doesn't pretend to clarify that, but to support the idea that teaching and adult is very, very different from teaching children and so it works for learning.
When a child is in an English speaking country, he gets the language through exposure, trials and correction. Basic Grammar is included without rules or explanations. It’s just like that! Learning English along their life experience, children quickly integrate it to their understanding and expressing their communicative needs. They learn from the usage and only later they study the grammar and structure of the language. The basics have already been acquired.
This “Natural approach” to English language learning gets excellent learning output, undoubtedly. The problem is that it requires long periods of time, totally immersed in an atmosphere that uses English language for communicative purposes.
When teaching adults, conditions change a lot. Adults already have their own mother tongue strongly rooted in their ways of thinking, expressing and organizing the sentences to communicate. They’ve got it after many years being exposed to their mother tongue and culture. Just this fact forces things to be different.
Apart from that, adult people taking an English Course, don’t usually have the “exposure” time to acquire it as a regular lifestyle skill. So, it takes longer periods of classes focused on practices among students in group work activities, propitiating opportunities to exercise and strengthen up their communicative skills.
Adults learn better from the reason to the practice. It’s like checking up the rules of a game before playing it. Adults will feel better, perform better and can be more proactive when they know where they pretend to go or what they pretend to reach in a class activity.
30 ago 2016
Thanks Lina Jovana. Your words have touched my heart. Students like you make teaching such a rewarding mission. You are very talented, God bless you!21-08-2016
(Thinking of you (Professor Carlos)
There are moments in our lives when everything
changes,
Everything changes for better.
There are moments in our lives when the universe
conspires
for us to be better humans beings,
There are moments in our lives
We understand that the universe is within us,
There are moments in our lives
We decide to allow ourselves to be happy
- There are moments in our lives
We know such special beings
Who make us shed a tear of happiness
Who make us think that we still have hope
And for them humanity deserves another chance,
Who make us feel that their friendship is a privilege.
There are moments in my life
I shed a tear
For those beings who make me feel I'm not alone
- For those beings who don't make me feel like a
"weirdo"
- For those beings who share a little of my
foolishness...
And I have only gratitude to the God of life
- For having
put such wonderful beings in my way
- But today I give thanks for you my
My dear teacher
For the blessing of meeting up in this life
For the blessing of your friendship...
I sincerely hope that the God of the universe
gives you more years of life, on this Earth, in this
now,
Because you have so much to give...
And I shed a tear...
And today I want to give you
what I most love to do in life:
Writing...
- And I have the certainty that it will not be the
only one present,
Because in this life we have a few pages to write
together...
- And I have always believed that one of the most beautiful
facets of love
It is gratitude
- Professor
- A million thanks for your patience, for your time,
- For your confidence, for your faith in me...
- I just must say
- Happy Birthday, thousand blessings, love and
health are my wishes for you
Thank you
Lina Jovana Bernal Garzón
Quimica Farmacéutica Universidad
Nacional
Online English student
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