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