UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMS

VICERRECTORIA DE UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA

FACULTAD DE EDUCACIN
LICENCIATURA EN LENGUA EXTRANJERA INGLS
PEDAGOGY AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
Assignment 2

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PEDAGOGICAL MEANS

Reading materials: (Textbook and materials in the virtual room)

INSTRUCTIONS

Read carefully the materials of the course proposed for the second moment as well
as the self-study guide, respond each one of the questions or tasks proposed.
Please, before responding, be sure of having understood the instructions clearly
and limit your answers to what is asked, be concise and precise. Avoid copying
information from the internet and if you consult something do the corresponding
citations, otherwise you will be doing plagiarism which is illegal in academic
environments.

1. Complete the chart.
Analyzing all the elements Brown gives in the chapter 6, about teaching a foreign
language to children, adults or teens, please design a table to determine the
following aspects (15 points).



When teaching
Population Main characteristics
(intellectual and affective factors)
What to do What no to do



CHILDREN
the age,(four to eleven) in this
stage children acquire the
language in a subconscious ,
natural and easier form than the
adult, allowing to children
acquire the language in a
spontaneous way and with a
perfection in their pronunciation,
.
Intelligence, play an important
factor in the learning and acquire
a language children acquire the
linguistic information in a
inductive form, is to say that they
start from the individual concept,
Be affective with
your children.

Be patient and
supportive.

Elicit as much
oral participation
as possible for
children.

Planned
physical
activities with
children,
Dont explain
grammar or
abstract rules.


Unconnected
sentences.


Topics
uncontextualized.


Inhibit students in
a bad way
children dont use meta
language or abstract terms or
rules for acquire the language.

children like to live the here and
know for that reason teacher
have to prepare activities that get
to the attention spans children is
to say interesting and funny
activities, it allow to have
children concentrated and
interesting in the acquire the
language.

children acquire the language
easier when they are in
movement, it is something that
for them is more meaningful
because it movement represent
play and it mean to them,

children have not yet formed
their ego and they are sensitive
when they are exposure to
inhibit in front, of the other, we
as teacher have to be careful
when children make mistake
because it can be negative for
the process learning and we
have to give them affective, be
tolerant, and support for that
children dont feel
shamefacedness and they can
strengthen their learning process
based on the affection given by
their teacher and classmate.

The learning have to be
contextualized, authentic and
meaningfully. Children have to
acquire the learning based on in
activities that for them be mean
and start from the real live.


Projects with
peers.

Work with
sensory aids.

Activities with
listen, speaking,
reading and
writing.

Activities that
allow to children
to be curious.

To have sense
of humor with
children.

Activities that
capture their
immediate
interest.

Do some activities
of repetition, help
students to
connect brain and
ear to cooperate.

Use context-
embedded in
language.

Avoiding
embarrassment of
student at all cost.

Affirming each
persons talents
and strengths











TEEN
Teenager (twelve to eighteen)
begin change their main and their
bodies it is the transition and
confuction age.

In this age teenager begin to solve
abstract problem with coherence
and their memories began to
processing information about
some activities or task but,
children begin to think too with
relation to sexual, parties,
girlfriends and other thoughts that
can affect the learning process.

Teenager s attention span can be
the processing longer but it is due
to result intellectual maturation
that later can be reduce with some
entertainment in the teenagers
live.

Teenagers sensory input is
essential intensify abilities for
abstract lessen to all five senses.

Teenagers ego is ultra-sensible
about how other perceive their
change physical and emotional,
their self-esteem is high and they
created a self-image.

Teenagers abilities to make those
occasional diversion from the
here and know nature of
immediate communicative context
to dwell on grammar point or
vocabulary item.
Avoiding
embarrassment
of student at all
cost.

Affirming each
persons talents
and strengths.

Allowing mistake
and other errors
is accepted.

De-emphasizing
competition
between
classmates.

Encouraging a
small group
where the risk
can be taken
easily by a teen.

Teacher should
have sense of
humor.

Use sensory
aids.

Be patient and
supportive.

Use context-
embedded in
No exposure to
teenager in front
of the other in a
bad way.





language.

Teach content
meaningful and
with coherence.


ADULTS
Adults have superior cognitive
ability because their capacity
analysis is wider than child for that
reason adult can handle abstract
rules and concepts that start in a
deductive form to inductive.
Adults have more attention span
than children for doing activities
even these are not meaningful for
them.
Adults have self-confidence and
their ego arent as fragile as
children but, for that reason we
cannot underestimate their feeling
and emotional factors.
Sensory input is not a varied from
the adults class but it is important
for them feel animated.



Be tolerant even
they be adults
because they
learn a new
language step
by step.
Give students
many
opportunities to
interact choice
with peers.
Permit o adults
make
investment in
their own
learning
process.
Affirming each
persons talents
and strengths

Dont treat to
adults in your
class as if they
were children.

Dont discipline
adult as children
way.

not expose to
adults to criticism
in a negative way
in front of other

no underestimate
feeling and
emotional factors.

No too much
abstract
generalization use
real language.


2. After having studied the chapter about how to teach English to children,
teens and adults, now you have a great deal of elements to assess a real
sample of lesson in your context. So, arrange a meeting with an English
teacher to observe his/her class with children, teens or adults and complete
the following information form. Have always in mind to establish correlations
between the theory studied and what actually happens in the classroom (15
points