REFELECTION ON MY MOCK IMPLEMENTATION

If I have to speak literally, this is not a mock implementation because I put into practice last Tuesday afternoon with my P4 pupils.
One of the activities was a listening and the other one was a speaking one. The outcomes, in general, were good, but better in the listening task in which a child has to point the picture of the farm animal he listens. The speaking was about saying an expression that we have been working for weeks and it's related to the animals sounds, for example:  "The cow goes muu muu!". I know that this is an English class and it's different to the other classes in which they speak and listen in Catalan or Spanish, but the outcomes of my implementation can make us see that, in general, our pupils are used to listen a lot, but not to speak enough. In the grades of Englishthe basic competences in primary, the oral part it's not as important as the writing, listening or reading and, in my opinion, this is a mistake because the way to speak a language is speaking it, it's the way to make the languages feel alive.
To enhance the language learning process we have ot give the speaking part the place that it deserves, and a lot of school seem that they are open their eyes because the hire a conversation assistant to work harder this skill. In my school, we have started this year with one conversation assistant that come once a week in every group and we work more individually the main expressions or the vocabualry worked in every unit.

The listening and speaking skills are two of a giant list of strategies that we, as the teachers, can put into practice in our groups. The most strategies we know the best for our students, because each child is a world and they have a different learning style  and knowing them we will know what's the better for them.

I think, that during the kindergarten and the first primary years, the work of the teachers it's indispensable to make our students which strategy fits in a better way with them.Giving them resources  gradually, will make them know themselves. As one of the videos says, the final goal of working with strategies is meke our students autonomous. I hope that my students, in the future, will have this autonomy to improve their learning proces.