SEMINARIO TALLER DE LA PRACTICA. III AÑO PROFESORADO DE INGLES.

1. TRABAJO FINAL
 TEACHERS: PROF. PAEZ
LOGIOIA Y COLLADO
 ALUMNAS: CLARK/
PEREZ DEL VISO.
 02-07-2011

2. **LINGUISTIC POLICIES AND NEW PARADIGMS
**TECHNOLOGY AND E.L.T.
**SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE.
**E.L.T. AND CULTURE.
**PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
**E.L.T. AND VALUES
**OUR EDUCATIONAL REALITY.

3. COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK AND THE
CURRICULUM DESIGN OF B.A.
C.E.FRAMEWOK
SIMILARITIES:
**It
C.D. of B.A. (Ley
13.688/ Res 3655/07)
aims to mutual understanding
and respect for diversity of
cultures among citizens in Europe
**Beliefs in the development of
plurilingualism as a life-long
process.
 It aims to foster dialogue, as the
DIFFERENCES:
 In the C.D.B.A. there is no
**Under the C.E.F.
learner´s
proficiency is assessed in L.2
languages , in terms of the six
levels (A1-C2) and five skills
(listening,
reading,
spoken
interaction, spoken production,
writing).
**Highly Values learner´s autonomy
and its own responsibility
(“ownership”).
most democratic and cooperative
way of discourse. (anexo 2)
 Applies “PLURILINGUISMO” as a
holistic development of the
subject.
classification of learners or levels.
It does not analyze “skills” in
particular.
 It does not highlight “learners´s
autonomy”, but school
curriculum, diagnosis of
situations, institutional or in-class
situations.

4. SIR KEN ROBINSON: CHANGING
EDUCATIONAL PARADIGMS.
Main Ideas of his Presentation:
CURRENT EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM:
**It is a standardized system,
originated in a different age.
**It comes from the Iluminism and
the Industrial Revolution era.
** It presents boring contents and
methods to students.
**A school resembles a factory: bell
rings, numbers, time-tables,
absence/present remarks,
graduation, series numbers (age
of the students)
 Need to change the
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educational paradigm:
To abandon the idea of
dividing people bet.
Academic/ non educated
population.
To avoid standardization at
school
To foster divergent, lateral
thinking, and creativity.
Great learning comes from
group-working.
Need to work cooperatively.

5. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES of the USE
OF TECHNOLOGY in the TEACHING PROCESS
 ADVANTAGES
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More active learning
Diversified teaching methods
Better student attention
Less time and energy for
professors
 Visual stimulation
 It motivates to use English in
the daily life
 Provides functional
communicative experiences
 DISADVANTAGES
 Equipment failures
 Need for back-up plans
 Anxiety for professors
 Time spent learning new
technologies all the time.
 Resources are not always
available.
 Constant Obsolescence of
devices.

6. ANALISIS DE UN VIDEO DE YOU TUBE: “PAY ATTENTION”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw
 The video highlights what our
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students really learn: they are
digital learners.
We should take into account : if
they are logical, spacial,
kinisthetic, musical learners.
Today an average college
graduate has spent 10.000 hours
playing video games, 10.000 h.
talking on cell phones, 20.000
watching T.V.
Kids of two, on average, use some
screen media for about 2 hours
per day.
The video makes a joke by
comparing “Richness” with the
ability to reach students.
(Reachness)
Do our students “understand,
analyze, evaluate, create” through
what we teach them? Do we reach
them in their own language ?
Our children use: cell phones,
screens, emails, internet, phones,
text messages,.
We should apply the www:
whenever, whatever, wherever.
We should use text messages to
teach poetry, maths, geography,
etc.
We should use computers to work on
pop quizes, book reports,
literature, peer tutoring,
storytelling, writing.
Lets make schoolwork engaging and
meaninful for the students,
through the use of technology.

7. Describe a situation which has some resemblance with the
situation on the video:
 Everyday we are involved in
situations where the buzz
of a cell-phone interrupts
the presentation of the
teacher. (that is the
situation We´ve witnessed)
 The video acknowledges
the situation (talks about
“evil” phones) and
proposes:
--As a way of “using the
w.w.w. method”, we can
use “text message” for:
**Undergoing Student
Polls.
**Pop quizzes
**Science experiments
**Spelling Bees.
**Math Experiments.

8. SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE.
THE CELU EXAM.
 CELU:Spanish Certificate: Language and Usage. It aims to respond to the
need to certify knowledge of Spanish as a foreign language.
 CELU evaluates oral and written linguistic competence of Spanish as a
foreign language in daily, social, work related or academic situations
irrespectively of the candidates’ mother tongue or the kind of language
training that they have received. The CELU accounts for 3 levels of
Spanish: basic, intermediate and advanced.
 Basic : proficient ability to communicate in simple and predictable
situations both daily and while traveling. / Intermediate: the speaker
can deal naturally with family situations and a variety of social
interactions/Advanced: ability to interact confidently and
spontaneously in a wider range of family, social, work related and
academic contexts.
 It would be compared with the exams: KET/ PET/ FIRST CERTIFICATE/
ADVANCED/ PROFICIENCY in English, held by Cambridge University.

9. E.L.T. AND CULTURE: JAY WALKER´S
WORDS AND OUR OPINION.
 In this TED video, Jay Walker states that the world is “going
English crazy”, and that other countries are obssessed with
teaching their children english beginning at an early age. He
insists in asserting that it does not mean washing away other
languages, but being a member of the globalized world. He says:
“English represents HOPE for a better future, where the world
has a common language to solve common problems.”
 OUR OPINION:
 On one hand, this assertion is true, because we need English as a
lingua franca, to be part of “the world”.
 But, on the other hand, Governments and People should give
more attention to the need to preserve our own culture,
language modalities, idioms and national values.

10. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS.
 ETHICS: A) The moral principles governing or influencing conduct.
 B) [usu. treated as sing.] the branch of knowledge concerned with moral principles.
 CAN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS BE TAUGHT?
 **It is possible to train teachers in relation to Codes of Conduct.
 **But some authors think that training individuals to adhere to particular
ethical principles when making decisions may not be possible.
 Some “Codes of Conduct” have been passed, as can be seen in the “CODE
OF ETHICS FOR EDUCATORS” in:
http://aaeteachers.org/index.php/about-us/aae-code-of-ethics.
 But Codes of Conduct mandate specific behaviours in certain situations,
but they do not promote individual submission to ethical principles.
 There are many daily “grey areas” where teachers have to decide, facing
different interests and values at stake. Codes of Conduct do not give a clear
solution in those cases. It depends on the teacher´s personal values.

11. ELT & VALUES:
“The value of commitment” (Claudia
Ferradas)
 “The Value of Commitment” is a handbook written by
CLAUDIA FERRADAS, to foster Reflection on Values
as part of English language eaching.
 The activities explore the following content areas:
working with children (6 to 8 and 9 to 11), and working
with teens (aged 12 to 14 and 15 to 18).
 This handbook celebrates Argentina´s 200th birthday
by focusing in the future: What sort of country do we
want to build?, What do we want to change? What
contribution can we make? How can we commit
ourselves as agents of change?

12. ELT & VALUES:
“The value of commitment” (Claudia
Ferradas)
FROM THE HANDBOOK, WE
CHOSE TO ANALIZE THE FIRST
ACTIVITY: “THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS”.
ASSIGNMENT: ANALYZE HOW
THIS ACTIVITY INTEGRATES
LANGUAGE TEACHING WITH
VALUES TEACHING.

13. ELT & VALUES:
“The value of commitment” (Claudia
Ferradas)
The exercise integrates Languate Teaching with Values, by:
 Exploring and expanding children´s vocabulary (L.
Teaching): Because they need some new vocabulary to
make a description (activity 1) and express personal
feelings. (activity 2).
 Revising structures such as “What colour…?” “How
many? ” (Language teaching).
 Value teaching: The activity makes children think
critically on the immediate environment and their
personal role in it.
 It makes children compromise to making things better
rather than just complaining abut others.

14. ELT & VALUES:
“The value of commitment” (Claudia
Ferradas)
 We think it is quite important to develop Values
Lectures while teaching language.
 It is because human beings are not “separate
compartments”: We cannot teach something without
referring to the values involved in the situation.
Teachers of English are also Teachers, and therefore,
responsible for what is taught in class and the way
students grow as citizens, social members and human
beings.

15. EDUCATIONAL REALITY: ANALYSIS OF
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON EDUCATION.
 ARTICLES IN CLARIN.COM:
 1-7-11:Demonstration against the Education Ministry: A
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demonstration held by Santa Cruz high school stds.
30-6-11: Some news on Winter Hollydays: when the period
starts for the different Provinces.
30-6-11: High School students submit different proposals to
the Provincial Parliament.
30-6-11 Some of the decalogues created by the students.
Preocupation of the polititian Pia Mancini on the
relationship between Educational contents and job
prospects.

16. EDUCATIONAL REALITY: ANALYSIS OF
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON EDUCATION.
 ARTICLES IN “EL DIARIO DE LA REPUBLICA”:
 02-7-11 ROAD EDUCATION for kids from PRIMERO
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DE MAYO Neighborhood.
29-6-11 EDUCATION and the 1st. STAMPS DELIVERY
in schools from San Luis and Villa Mercedes.
21-6-11 Payment of salaries and bonuses to Teachers.
20-6-11 Teacher training in Concarán. (with scores for
the attendance).
29-5-11 Public Servants visited the “OTTO KRAUSE”
School.

17. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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ELT and Technology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw
HARMER, Jeremy: “The practice of English Language Teaching”
ELT and Culture:
http://languageasculturespring11.blogspot.com/2011/05/englishmania.html
 Our Reality: CLARIN and "EL DIARIO DE LA REP." Webpage.
 Values: www.claudiaferradas.net.
 Linguistic Policies:
 www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/source/guidelines_EN_pdf.
 www.abc.gov.ar/lainstitucion/organismos/consejo
general/disenioscurriculares.
 Celu and Spanish Teaching: www.celu.edu.ar
 ELT and Culture:www.ted.com/talks/
jay_walter_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html

18. WE WANT TO SAY:
THANK YOU!!