Interview with Professor of English: Gabriela Alvarado

Question

1.   Do you consider that English teachers should be innovative in the lesson?

2. What types of innovations should be used to develop the lesson?  

3.   Do you think that students like to learn the foreign language? Why yes or not?

4.   Why do you consider that learning English is necessary tool nowadays?

5.   Do you consider that English teachers have the support of the Government or institution where they work?

6.   What types of limitations do you consider teachers have had?

7.   What types of innovations do you use in your class?

8.   If you would be a principal or the authority to change something of the educational system, how would you help teachers in order to make them develop their job in easy way?

9.   Do you consider that the size of the groups limitate your effectiveness as teacher?

Teacher: Gabriela Alvarado

 

Answer

1.   Yes, I do. Everybody has their own way to make the thing and the capacity to break the monotony.

2. First, it has to study the capacity and the intelligent that each student has, and then is highly recommended study the whole group in general. There are many types of materials and techniques in order to innovate a class. For instance, if the most part of the group is visual and the rest is linguistic, you can combine both. In cases like this you can make use of short videos, where the part of the students that are visual make an oral presentation and the other part create a short summary of the picture. Finally, both groups can present the project. Also it can create large murals with the use of recycle materials such as newspaper, plastics, cans and others. This is for talk about any topic, and at the same time develops other abilities and make awareness to conserve the environment. It is important to take into account that no all the students learn in the same way, and not all the classes shouldn't be equals.

3.  Yes, I do. Because everybody has the capacity to learn another language. It is essential that the person who is learning wants to learn, and the person who is teaching motivate the other one. Motivation and the necessity are two important stuff that students have in order to learn other language.

4.  Nowadays there are different ways to expand whether economically or professionally. To obtain this people have to communicate and one of the ways to make this is by the use of the language. The English is one of the most used languages around the world, and for that reason is vital learn it, with the purpose to have more opportunities.

5.  No, I don't. I think that the Government doesn't give all the materials and the instruments not just for the teacher but also for the student to support both. If it is true that the Government has advanced in certain areas, it has not been enough, if we compare with other countries.

6.  Most of the time one of the limitations teachers have, have been the lack of equipment and the bad infrastructure that the institutes has, also lack of time.  

7.   The use of songs, make role plays, student create their own materials basin on previous knowledge teacher have given.

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Teacher: Gabriela Alvarado

Interview with Professor of English: Cristian Soto

Question

1.   Do you consider that English teachers should be innovative in the lesson?

2. What types of innovations should be used to develop the lesson?  

3.   Do you think that students like to learn the foreign language? Why yes or not?

4.   Why do you consider that learning English is necessary tool nowadays?

5.   Do you consider that English teachers have the support of the Government or institution where they work?

6.   What types of limitations do you consider teachers have had?

7.   What types of innovations do you use in your class?

8.   If you would be a principal or the authority to change something of the educational system, how would you help teachers in order to make them develop their job in easy way?

9.   Do you consider that the size of the groups limitate your effectiveness as teacher?

Teacher: Cristian Soto

Answer

1.  Yes, totally we as a teachers have to make our classes as innovative as possible, we must try having fun at the same time they are learning, we should remember many of the students dislike English, so we try to make activities to catch their attention, besides aim they feel comfortable to work with.

2. We can use the all technology around us, like computers, video beam, use internet if you can have it, besides we also can try with some resources like magazines, brochures, news papers; kinds of materials like those are very helpful to innovate your classes.

3.  Is it a quite hard questions to answer, because some students some days like English and suddenly dislike, because of the topics or ways to teacher give the classes, I can say almost 50% of the students like the English and the process of learning, but we as a teachers must show to our students the importance of English nowadays and how the L2 will help them in their professional performance and in their lives. I consider that we the past of the years this percentage is going to increase because the value of English have in society.

4.  As I told you before, if do you learn English you a extra point in regard a professional with the same curriculum to you, but do you have an extra position just with the English, it is why currently learn a second language is very important if we want to thrive in our future.

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6. you can use many kinds of innovations like, make presentations, use videos to make different activities, watch some blogs to share information, assigned student's homework from the web, or perhaps is very useful to make workshops in class where students have build some activities and at the same time are producing meaningful learning which is very important for student's learning process.

7.  Some of the limitations could be in our way to teach English in our compromise with our students and some teachers just like loaf time in their classes, on the other hand we have some students who dislike English and even compare this subject with mathematics as the two most difficult ones, and they are predispose to learn English, here is time to create all the innovations in the classes to show those students the L2 isn't as boring as they believe, moreover we try to establish a confident atmosphere in our classes, where students feel comfortable and pleased to be there.

8.  I would try they can have many resources to make all this possible, where they can handle many innovative activities for their students, and very important a good computer laboratory where they can take their students and improve all the skills.

9. Totally sometimes we want to give a kind of personalized attention with our students, but it is almost impossible, because the size of the groups. Imagine groups where you find 35 students how come you will do that.

Teacher: Cristian Soto