domingo, 9 de septiembre de 2007

HOW DO I ADDRESS COMPETENCES IN MY ENGLISH TEACHING?

Communicative competence is included in my class all the time. The way I used to address all competences is taking them into account during the lesson planning in which any topic will help students to develop them.
This way, the activities must integrate linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences although sometimes I reinforce only one, depending on the objective being considered.
As a Teacher, it is easy to promote these competences with the students, using different strategies like: games, songs, written exercises, role-plays, movies, listening exercises, dialogues, etc.. all in order to enrich the process of learning and acquiring the language. It is our role and responsibility to guide students and teach them not only contents but also the skill of using knowledge in their daily situations so they can face life as it comes.

1 comentario:

Norbella dijo...

Hi Natalia,
It's very nice to hear that you are using a great variety of activities in your classes and consciously working on the different aspects of the communicative competence. I'm sure your students are enjoying your classes very much, and of course learning a lot!
Cheers,
Norbella