WHAT I LIKE FROM MY METHOD
My method was really interesting for me because we need to be a good teacher to show it. Why? because a good teacher has imagination and creativity. Through different activities or games we can develop many thing in our students. TPR is like a listening comprehension, so you need to pay special attention to all the things that the teacher is going to say in order to know how to related them with each command. It is not neccesary to dictate many boring things, you just need to create a good environment in the classroom and the rest will be easy.
WHAT I DID NOT LIKE FROM MY METHOD
Well from my method I did not like that almost all the time the students do not have the opportunity to participate and express their ideas. In this method th teacher is active and he is the doer of all. The students have to repeat the games or the commands that the teacher does. For me that is not correct because in this way we can not know the kind of students we have. We can not realize if someone has a problem learnig something or if someone does not understand what we are teaching about the target language. We need to express what we think in order to learn more and faster.
WHAT I UNDERSTOOD FROM THE OTHER METHOD ( SUGGESTOPEDIA)
I understood that suggestopedia is a teaching method which is based on a modern understanding of how the human brain works and how we learn most effectively. This method can be developed by showing pictures or throuhg the music. It is very important in that method to estimulate the human brain trying to reduce the stress too because this an easy way to learn faster.
Another point that is really good is that this method shows the things in a modern way and that is why entertain the students and make them interested in learn another language. The teacher is going to be the most important character teaching this method because all the things depend on how he/she can transmit the knowledge. Based on the way that the teacher present his/ her material in that way the students are going to learn.
I think for the person who developed this method was really important that the students feel relax in order to be more concentrated in the different activities they will do. For me this topic with TPR are a little bit related. Why? because one of the goals of TPR is to reduce the stress of learning a new language and with this is almost the same because you need to find the relaxing space to learn faster a second language. I like very much this method and I realized that the teachers job is really amazing, taking into account that is going to be like that if we love our profession.
It was a really interesting method. I think TPR is a good option for the teachers to improve new knowledge in the students, but as you said in the classroom Karen students have to be in a comfortable atmosphere where they can express their imagination and creativity. But i think this method does not permite too much because the teacher is the principal character in this process for that reason the students have to pay attention carefully in order to understand what the teacher is saying or expressing. In conclusion i liked this presentation because i can use it like a educational tool when i want to teach in the future. :)
ResponderEliminarWell as you said karen with this method the students don't
ResponderEliminarhave the opportunity to express their point of views, that is something in which i am in aggrement with you, this method that we know has advantages and disadvantages, but the important thing is
knowing in what moment i must apply this method in our classroom.
This method for me is the better way to learn a target language, and with this method we can improve the skills more important
in those ages.
This method is very good because children can learn from dinamics games and play them at the same time, as you wrote they need to have a good listening comprehension and they have to be very heedful in everything that the tecahers says and to listen their instructions but like every method this has a disadvantage, that is that the students can't express their ideas they have just to listen what the teacher says and when i saw the video there were a lot of children of the age of 5 to 7 maybe and everybody know that when we were in that age we make a lot of questions and we expressed our ideas and we liked to participate but unfortunately this disadvantage exist in this method.we have to be careful when to used this method because it couln't be every day or in every class we have to know when to use it and with whom because each student has a different way to learn things.
ResponderEliminarkaren i really like your method because is very important to develop the skills of speaking and listenig because when kids are growing up they don't know anything and little by little they learn to communicate, so i think that, that is the point in this method because you use the mother thongue but little, in other words, the students learn as if they were kids because you make movements to be understandable for the students and in that way the students learn very fast.
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