jueves, 21 de mayo de 2015

INTRODUCTORY THOUGHTS TO A THE STRATEGY WORD ANS ITS APPLIACTION TO THE LANGIUAGE LEARNING PROCESS.

A strategy is a PLAN to direct something like, for example, a process. These PLANNING ACTIONS (the strategy) will help us to take decisions or to have better results on whatever we apply the strategy.
Everyone has used a strategy sometime, because, as I mentioned before, it helps people in different processes, and one of them could be the learning process. The word GOAL is an important one here, due to every planning action has one.



The learning process has as a goal be able to learn something; because of our subject is about language learning, I’m going to talk about some planning actions that I have put on practice, and I still do, to learn a foreign language, in this case English.
Firstly, I use my attention (metacognitive strategy) during the English lessons or while I’m watching a good movie or listening a song to catch the most I can of what’s been said. 
Also I try to use my English when I’m with friends or people able to speak it (social strategy). During my high years, I remember that the memory (memory strategy) was a good ally for the language learning because in every unit, we had to study a lot of vocabulary.

A communication strategy makes us see that through the communication a problem or problems can be solved. The communication exists because we use different kinds of it to keep communicate with others; one of them is using a language. So, as the learning strategies, the communication strategy helps us to achieve our goal, in this case, be able to communicate something to someone.

                   


In my opinion, the learning strategies (mentioned above) and the communication ones, are similar, because when I have communication with someone I use my attention to listen the other, I use my social skills because you need another person and I use my memory because I (we) always use things that I (we) remember when we have communication with somebody.
In the conclusion, I want to use another word that needs capital letters: INTENTION. In all kinds of strategies we need a good planning to achieve a goal, and in these planning actions there’s always an intention, the intention to improve something like the processes that I’ve been talking about in these short, but I hope, helpful letters.


http://www.bloguismo.com/13-claves-de-una-estrategia-de-comunicacion-2-0-para-el-pequeno-comercio/
dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/1958134.pdf


domingo, 17 de mayo de 2015

TELL IT AGAIN! The Storytelling Handbook for Primary English Language Teachers

Summary (Power Point)

CHAPTER 4: Developing language-learning skills.

CHAPTER 5: Classroom management.



 
 










Putting on practice the theory adapting it to P5 level: "What's your favourite animal?"


Resultado de imagen de prezi         

https://prezi.com/jtmkmgiw8_5b/edit/?auth_key=h84fr5e&follow=oxihrz47c7kh




jueves, 14 de mayo de 2015

READING AND LEARNING ENGLISH: online resources and one recommendation.

Hello everyone,

I checked all the links in the list and, despite they all are good ones for whoever likes reading and being informed about the last books published, I want to focus in three of them.

The first one is the Guardian section. It's a well-structured site in which you can find different topics related to children's books: top ten books, interviews, audios, videos and some extras. Also, it presents you interesting books for different ages: children's books, ages seven and under, from eight to twelve....
Although it keeps you inform, one of the things that draws my attention were two sections: the first is “Start a reading club”,   in which the people can share opinions or book reviews; the second one is “Poetry quiz: finish the line”, where the children can practice poetry while they are playing a game.

MY FAVOURITE SECTION: "Finish the line"

Lear Owl Pussycat C19 
Edward Lear wrote: "The owl and the pussycat went to sea..."

Another section that I have enjoyed is the one which belongs to the website called NO TIME FOR FLASHCARDS: “21 Picture Book Biographies”. I consider that there are a lot of people who made important things in the past and made our world a little bit better and it’s important that children know them. The books that appear in the section have terrific drawings, and they will keep the attention of them. As the site says “they are incredible tools to teach children about history, about innovation, and empathy”

Resultado de imagen de skit scat raggedy cat
 I'm glad to see that some kid will know who was Ella Fitzgerald, one of my favourite singers.

At last but not least, I like the website “Little bird tales”, because with it, the children can put into practice their creativity making their own stories. It’s a good way to make the reading time funny. Also it’s a complete site in which educators, students and families can find some help for their learning and teaching process.


Working with children creativity   


MORE RESOURCES

“SOMNINS”


A few months ago, a cousin of mine recommended me a publishing house called Somnins. I checked the website and, instantly, I fell in love with their books. They have a good variety and in different languages (Spanish, Catalan, English and French) and topics (illustrated albums, calendars, knowledge books, etc.), but they all have something in common: they work the values.


 
"SOMNINS": Big variety of books to work values with children

They also have an interesting blog with their last works or activities:


I hope you enjoy the reading!