WHAT WOULD BE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING ELP WITH
MY GROUPS?
This learning becomes more efficient and motivated than old methodology.
Therefore, the main challenge and one of the most important advantages is to
obtain awareness of different language within European Union, but also to encourage
students to get both, the learning and teaching languages.
In addition, there are more advantages like the ELP helps to develop
language learning and intercultural skills. For instance, using the ELP in the
classroom promotes autonomous learning and teachers should benefit from using
the ELP in the classroom.
The main reason about significant benefits is why the ELP assigns a
central role to reflection and self-assessment. Above all, the ELP is engaging
learners to share responsibility for the learning process. Besides it helps
students to think critically when they plan and evaluate their own learning. . Students
will do three documents which are a language passport, a language biography and
a dossier with a selection of different work of the owner. Each of these documents
collects personal information about formal and informal linguistic formation
because it reflects all the linguistic skills of a person both formal and
informal and cultural experiences of a person and that somehow influence their
linguistic skills
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WOULD TEACH YOUR
STUDENTS ABOUT YOUR SUBJECT (IN A CLIL CONTEXT)? HOW HOW
WOULD YOU ASSESS THEIR LEARNING?
Firstly, I would say that the main goal as a teacher is engage or
maintain motivation to learn and for that we should adopt effective teaching
practices, which is known as motivational strategies, teachers can have a decisive
effect on improving the quality of meaningful learning. According to the significant
ideas about meaningful learning, my main goal is to encourage, engage student
motivation to learn.
However, it’s very difficult to combine the student’s motivation with
the curriculum sometimes. The issues of the subjects usually are so boring for
them. Our task is to wake up their interest. For that, we have a lot of tools,
but the real problem is how we must use them.
In my personal experience, new technologies are really important and
interesting for them. In my class using ICT will be useful as I teach
technologies. Students are interested in online world because they are native digital
people. For that, my main resources will be video, websites and interactive
online games which they have fun and it’s
a practical and useful learning way at
the same time. What is more, it will be very effective in CLIL context, too.
On the other hand, other important
points to consider are collaborative and cooperative learning Collaborative
learning requires working together toward a common goal. It means that students are responsible for one
another's learning as well as their own and that reaching the goal implies that
students have helped each other to understand. I’m interested in working
towards student autonomy and self-directed learning.
Finally, the question of assessing, personally, I think the
topic is more important, English is simply the medium used, but it’s
dual-focused education .In my lessons we pay attention in content and language
as well as the collaboration skills and communication . Also, culture, what it happens
around us? Each part is very important but the most essential for me it will be
how students have demonstrated their learning and improvement gradually.