Developing Language Skills
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SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT:
DEVELOPING LANGUAGE SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM
- Length: between 6 and 8 pages (without including cover, index or appendices –if there are any-).
- Type of font: Arial or Times New Roman.
- Size: 11.
- Line height: 1.5.
- Alignment: Justified.
Important: you have to write your personal details and the subject name on the cover (see the next page). The assignment that does not fulfil these conditions will not be corrected. You have to include the assignment index below the cover.
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- The learning theories implicit in the way the units are presented and developed.
After watching the two sets of suggested materials, – “Bachillerato - Made Easy” and “Botellón” – it is noticeable that the humanistic methodology principles are the basis of the methodology proposed by the authors of such books. The learner does not only have a cognitive aspect but also an affective or emotional one. That is reflected mostly in the type of topics addressed and the type of activities, in which, according to Jesús Arzamendi (Arzamendi, J. et all) the learner, him/herself and with his peers, is in great rate responsible for his learning process.
The two types of materials also show that they have a trend to elicit meaningful communication, which leads us to state that both books are thought as Communicative Language Learning, specially, due to the topics studied, an emotional respond to the language, through peer discussion. The teacher mostly has a facilitator role, due to the fact that activities are mostly discussed and developed among students.
Arzamendi reminds us what Widdowson (1990) states about The Communicative Approach, which tends to “concentrate on getting learners to do things with the language, to express concepts and to carry...
DEVELOPING LANGUAGE SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM
- Length: between 6 and 8 pages (without including cover, index or appendices –if there are any-).
- Type of font: Arial or Times New Roman.
- Size: 11.
- Line height: 1.5.
- Alignment: Justified.
Important: you have to write your personal details and the subject name on the cover (see the next page). The assignment that does not fulfil these conditions will not be corrected. You have to include the assignment index below the cover.
Names and surname(s):
Group:
Date:
- The learning theories implicit in the way the units are presented and developed.
After watching the two sets of suggested materials, – “Bachillerato - Made Easy” and “Botellón” – it is noticeable that the humanistic methodology principles are the basis of the methodology proposed by the authors of such books. The learner does not only have a cognitive aspect but also an affective or emotional one. That is reflected mostly in the type of topics addressed and the type of activities, in which, according to Jesús Arzamendi (Arzamendi, J. et all) the learner, him/herself and with his peers, is in great rate responsible for his learning process.
The two types of materials also show that they have a trend to elicit meaningful communication, which leads us to state that both books are thought as Communicative Language Learning, specially, due to the topics studied, an emotional respond to the language, through peer discussion. The teacher mostly has a facilitator role, due to the fact that activities are mostly discussed and developed among students.
Arzamendi reminds us what Widdowson (1990) states about The Communicative Approach, which tends to “concentrate on getting learners to do things with the language, to express concepts and to carry...