REFLECTION ON CASE STUDIES

Watching all the videos presented with all these teachers, pupils, students and places you can think that there are all the strategies that a teacher could need.

There are shown classes from the kindergarten, passing for primary and until secondary school with teachers who ask more than others, in different centers placed in different zones. Taking in account all these factors, the teachers have to choose the strategies that fill better with their students: strategies by purpose, by skill area, by proficiency levels of the language, by culture, by age, etc.

During the viewing of the videos I have seen teachers that use visual support, that use the repetition, that speak English in a perfect tune and pronunciation for the students, that use the different skills, that use the translation, the co-languaging, the translanguaging, that use the ICT but some of them work with cooperative and collaborative strategies that make the students learn together and with the others’ help.

The video who takes more my attention was the one called “Building community in a Multilanguage classroom” in which is shown a classroom with a lack of proficiency in English in a neighborhood in Los Angeles. The teacher works it making them participate a lot, making that all that they learn has a connection with the students, giving them responsibilities. In conclusion, making them a community of learners, helping each other.

Seeing in action this teacher and the others, you can see that they are experts recognizing the needs of their students and presenting them the strategies they think that help them in a better way. You can see that they try to make their students work together, because they only way to learn a language is speaking it and in each video you can see that they use the language and they make it live. Like the teacher that works in L.A says “Chomsky said that we develop language playing games because we interact with each other”.