4th forum discussion

Read the article on this link http://gouinseries.com/ (Gouin's Method) and compare it to the Audiolingual Method. What are their similarities and differences?

Source:
Gouin, F. (1892) The art of teaching and studying languages (trans. H. Swan & V. Bétis). London: George Philip & Son (Original work published 1880.)

Interesting book!

http://livraria.folha.com.br/catalogo/1161039/jogos-e-atividades-para-o-ensino-de-ingles

What is teaching?

Learning to teach is not just about learning a body of knowledge and techniques; it is also about learning to work in complex sociopolitical and cultural political space and negotiating ways of doing this with our past histories, fears, and desires; our own knowledges and cultures; our students’ wishes and preferences; and the institutional constrains and collaborations.

  Alan Luke from Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning

And how about you? What is teaching to you?

3rd forum discussion

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/victoria-kamchatka/teaching-style-vs-learning-style

First part: Read the article in the link above and reflect a little on it.

Second part: Take this metaphor: In the classroom, the teacher is the gardner, the students are the seeds/flowers and the classroom is a fertile soil. Try to explain it, using your own words.

2nd forum discussion

DESCRIBE, IN A BRIEF WAY, HOW YOU STARTED LEARNING ENGLISH, THE MAIN REASONS, YOUR MOTIVATION, THE DIFFICULTIES, THE FIRST WORDS AND SENTENCES YOU SPOKE, ETC. IS THERE ANY SIMILARITY WITH THE WAY YOU LEARNED YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE?

Activity: Video do Krashen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug

Watch the video (the link is right above) and answer the following questions below:

1) How do we acquire language?
2)Are there any individual variations that can make a person learn a language better and faster than the others?
3) Bear in mind the example of the japanese girl he mentions in his talk,  when was the beginning of her language acquisition? When she started to listen or to speak?
4) Explain in a few words what is the COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT and the AFFECTIVE FILTER HYPOTHESIS.