Let´s start a new year at school.
How much English do students remember? or how much English do they appear to have learnt the previous year? - Probably a few words or rather poor phrases to decribe holiday or an interesting summer experience.
This is the most frequent complain that teachers are used to sharing among them.
Why does this happen?
Teachers perhaps have failed in helping the students to get skillfully developed on the appropriate and significant aspects of the language they needed.
However, in my opinion this is not the explanation for this situation. I think the most important FACT,( because it is real)is that the majority of the chilean students, especially adolescents do not understand why they have to studey and hence why they have to learn a second language. They are unable to grasp the advantages that being english skilled means and will mean in the future.
goog example! you are totally righ! there is no understanding among the students, there is just study before the test, and thats it!
ResponderEliminarTo my mind it is absolutely true when sts come back from holidays and most of them are not able to remember some facts and interact with their peers. In order to make their understanding more meaninful, we must devote more time to create material that helps our sts acquire a durable learning.
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