Teaching Methologies - My conceptions

Getting to know each other..

Hello people!
Please, if you could, I would appreciate if you answered some of this questions about the course you are taking:

• Are you already teaching? If you are, do you like it?
• What's your favorite subject at the university?
  
• What do you want to do after finishing your course?

Hope to hear from you soon, thank you, bye bye :]

My table about the methodologies..

My class presentation about..

The Direct method:

• was estabilished in Europe around 1900;
• only the target language is used in class;
• grammar is taught inductively;
• both speech and listening comprehensions are taught;
• was created as an answer to the Grammar Translation Method.

The Audiolingual Method:

• also known as the Army Method;
  
• it is based on behaviorist theory;
• only the target language is used in class;
• emphasizes listening and speaking;
• use drills and repetitions, no explicit grammar instruction.

Immersion programme and natural approach

Immersion programme is a form of bilingual education in which children who speak only one language enter a school where a second language is the medium of instruction for all pupils.
For example, there are schools in Canada for English-speaking children, where French is the language of instruction.
If these children are taught in French for the whole day it is called a total immersion programme, but if they are taught in French for only part of the day it is called a partial immersion programme.

Natural approach can be:
1 - A term form a number of language-teaching methods which were developed in the 19th century as a reaction to the grammar translation method. These methods emphasized:
• The use of the spoken language
• The use of objects and actions in teaching the meanings of words and structures.
• The need to make language teaching follow the natural principles of first language learning.
These methods lead to the direct method.

2 – A term for an approach proposed by Terrell, to develop teaching principles which:
• Emphasize natural communication rather than formal grammar study.
• Are tolerant of learners’ errors.
• Emphasize the informal acquisition of language rule.

Classroom Speaking Activities

This is the summary of a text we read in class, we were supposed to do it in groups:

In the text, the author talks about how to deal with activities that involve speaking and working in groups in a classroom. He divides the activities in three different groups.

> Acting from a script: It’s basically a role-play activity, where they have to act out scenes that are given by the teacher. In most cases the students have to go to the front of the classroom and present what they have prepared. The author enforces that the teacher needs to be careful when choosing the first students who go to the front. He says we have to ask the most confident students first and then go to the others.

> Communication games: They are normally imported from radio and TV. They normally work in pairs or groups like a competition that can involve scores and prizes. One example of it is the “Twenty Questions game”, a guessing game where one student answers questions made by his classmates that are trying to guess what he/she has in mind.

> Discussion: In this activity, the students have to discuss about a difficult or popular situation. He suggests that the students first write the topics that they agree and disagree and then rehearse in small groups and only after that, the teacher should open the discussion to the whole classroom. He also brings a real problem: when students are not comfortable to give their opinion and that’s why he suggests the written and the small groups’ preparation.

HARMER, Jeremy. The practice of English language teaching. 3rd edition, Longman

We tried to make a parody..

I wanna go to the mall (Another brick in the wall - Pink Floyd)

I don't want to pay attention
To that teacher so slow
I hope my docs come here soon
Uniso, leave my pocket alone
Hey! Uniso! My knowledge is gone
In the end I just wanna go to the mall
My friend you'll become nothing after all..


and here comes another one..


Another chick for all (Another brick in the wall - Pink Floyd)

I don't want no starvation
I am becoming so slow
I have a knife but not a spoon
Chicken, I wanna eat your bones
Hey! Chicken! Let me eat your bones
In the end the chick won't be here next fall
I don't care cause he was tasty after all

where your dreams come true :]

On Halloween, instead of going 'trick or treat' I went to Orlando, MI with my hostparents. Down there I went to amazing parks like, the Island of Adventure, Universal Studios, Epcot, Magic Kingdom.

Wolverine and me, I can't tell who looks fatter haha
The Cat in the Hat, so funny!Sponge Bob and me haha

take a trip, feel free.

Now I'm going to show you my pictures from places I went while I was in the United States. On December, I took a trip to Chicago with some of the exchange students. It was AWESOME! We went to museums, shopping malls, the hard rock cafe, iceskating and to the Water Tower, a really tall building where we could see the hole Chicago and three more States!
This picture is at the Chicago Theather.

At the limo! When we first got to Chicago there was a surprise waiting for us, this big and beautiful limo that took us on a tour thru the town.

This is the view from the History Museum, a mazing place to visit in Chicago.

Iceskating at night, I only fell once haha.

exchange students rock!

I would like to share with you some of my experiences during a exchange program in 2006. I went to the United States on August 18th in order to improve my english skills and have lots of fun! I lived in a small city called West Bend, in Wisconsin, a northern state close to the Great Lakes. I stayed in a family's house there, The Sextons, and they were really awesome. They took me to places that I always wanted to be.

Steve and Doris Sexton, my dear american parents. He is a Economics teacher and she is an English teacher at the High School I went.
At school I was a Senior, it's like the last year of high school. My teachers were great, the school was amazing, because it was a public school and it was much better than lots of private schools down here in Brazil.

This is my locker, something I always dreamt to have one day. You can see my pictures and some sheets of paper all over it lol.

This is the cafeteria of West Bend East High School, the food there was really good and it was just like the movies we see here, with those funny lunch ladies lol.
And meet Mr. Burch, a really nice Spanish teacher, but the class made him go crazy, poor guy.

I made lots of friends, most of them were exchange students too, because we all had something in common right? They were from China, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Colombia, Bolivia and also Brazil.

This is a picture of when we went snowtubing , it was awesome! All exchange students.
This picture is me and my exchange students friends at a school party from the Homecoming week, which was really fun cause we had to dress up costumes for a week, and than there was a ball with king and queen of the ball, really funny.
I lived there for a semester, and it was the best time of my life. Maybe I'll come back to visit them sometime soon.
Oh, and yeah, I got some extra kilos while I was there, like about 10!!!!! So, don't laugh at my pictures, please. lol