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Essay (class covered 18th May 2015)

Posted by AudreyDimond on June 21, 2015 at 10:15 PM Comments comments (0)

Raise a child bilingual brings cognitive benefits


   When you hear about raising a bilingual child, is normal to think about all the difficulties that can appear in the process, but more than that, it is better to start thinking about all the benefits that this method can bring to your child’s life. Diverse studies support the idea that bilingualism is not a dist...

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Cmap (delivered 3th April 2015)

Posted by AudreyDimond on June 21, 2015 at 9:05 PM Comments comments (0)

.Applied Linguistics Cmap.

    With this C-map, you can form your own definition of Applied Linguistics. As teachers, we know it is extremely important that students must create their own definitions a...

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Behaviourism v/s Constructivism (Class covered 30th April 2015)

Posted by AudreyDimond on June 21, 2015 at 3:00 AM Comments comments (0)

   When this topic was covered in class, about theories of language acquisition, most of my classmates thought out loud that behaviourism was the most old and out dated theory to acquire knowledge. In my personal opinion, you cannot let behind a theory like behaviourism to teach, what I mean is that, as teachers, sometimes we need to apply behaviourism in some lessons to teach for example pronu...

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Extra Material

Posted by AudreyDimond on June 21, 2015 at 1:35 AM Comments comments (0)


"Communicative Language Teaching: A Conversation Between Jeremy Harmer and Scott Thornbury"

 


"Behaviorist Theory of Second Language Acquisition"
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The Communicative Approach. (class covered 20th April 2015)

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The Communicative Approach.


  Here is a power point presentation made by my classmates Franco Rubiera, Claudio Contreras and me. We explained in class the main goals of the Communicative Approach.

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