3. QUOTATIONS ABOUT TEACHERS
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good
teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher
inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
• The best teacher is the one who suggests
rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his
listener with the wish to teach
himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher is a compass that activates
the magnets of curiosity, knowledge,
and wisdom in the pupils. ~Ever
Garrison
5. Autonomous Learning
• Autonomous learning can be promoted
• Learning to learn is regarded as an
integral part of language learning, so AS
learners we should become
increasingly aware of the way we learn,
the options open to us and the options
that best suit us
• We can be brought increasingly to make
choices in respect of objectives,
materials and working methods in the
light of our own needs, motivations,
characteristics, and resources
• Be exposed to the guidelines, course
program.
6. Psychologists
Jean Piaget
• Born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
on August 9, 1896
• Died in Geneva on September
16, 1980
• His researches in developmental
psychology and genetic
epistemology had one unique
goal: how does knowledge
grow?
7. VYGOTSKY
• (November 12 (1896 – June
11, 1934)
• A Soviet developmental
psychologist whose work
received widespread
recognition in the Western
world around the 1960s.
• The intellectual
development of children is
a function of human
communities, rather than
of individuals.
8. LINGUISTS
Patsy Lightbown
&
Nina Spada
Concordia University
Montreal Canada
How Languages are
Learned
9. LINGUISTS
Lynne Cameron
Teaching Languages to Young Learners
• MA from the University of York
• PhD in the development of
metaphor in children
• Has trained primary teachers in the
UK, Malta, and Norway
10.
11. LINGUISTS
Jack C Richards
Reflective Teaching in Second Language
Classrooms
• Born in New Zealand, MA with
first class honours in English
from Victoria University in
Wellington, New Zealand, in
1966.
• Ph.D in Applied Linguistics from
Laval University (a French-
Language University) in Quebec
City, Canada in 1972
13. TO REFLECT
• In the past few decades learning, including language
learning, has increasingly been seen not just as the
accumulation of sets of fixed items of knowledge, but
also as the ability to change, adapt, and update
these items according to both the needs of the
individual learner, and the requirements of the
contexts in which knowledge needs to be used
Luciano Mariani
46. English Today in our Context
• MEN recommends basic
standards in competencies
in foreign languages
• Colombia´s ´bilingual
program in 2019.
• The trend around the world
is to become bilingual
60. Self-Assessment
• Judgements about your own
proficiency
• Learners can be involved in many of
the assessment techniques. It can
be an effective complement to tests
and teacher assessment.
• Accuracy in self-assessment is
increased when
– assessment is in relation to clear
descriptors defining standards of
proficiency
– assessment is related to a specific
experience
– Train learners to self-assessment
techniques
61. New role of the Teacher
• The teacher as a facilitator
• The teacher as an observer
• Elicits from learners
• Provides challenging tasks
• Raises students awareness