ACADEMY SATURDAY MEXTESOL

MEXTESOL CHAPTER GUANAJUATO

ACADEMIC SATURDAY

This event took place on February 20 th 2016 in the Escuela Normal Superior Oficial of Guanajuato. That arrange the English area because in this event has some presentations about strategies, methods and more things related to the English teaching.

The first presentation was called “The influence of reflection on pre-service teachers develops”.

Speaker: Karina Caselis Ramirez.

She started the presentation with a key question “what implies reflection?” Some people of the audience gave their ideas. After that she presented some definitions about reflection as soon as:

Dewey (1993) Reflection implies activity, consistent and careful consideration of any belief and practice taking into a count the reason that sustains these beliefs

Schon (1998) Reflection can happen at two different times.

Then she explained us that she made a research about how reflect the pre-service teachers in this case when they reflect about the systematization of their practices and their like for their became an English teachers. Next she spook about the difference between teacher in training and teacher development. The first was the academic training during the degree. The second was the develop of the person, attitudes, values etc.

Then in the program appear 5 simultaneous presentations that is why 1 choose one that was called What does the non-native teacher bring to the classroom?

Speaker: Liliana Lizett Llena Resendíz.

This presentation was about myths and beliefs that the native English teachers taught better that no-native.  Then she asked us a question “If you want to learn astrology, you have to travel to Mars? “  Next she explained us that it was the same case when the people thought that was necessary to travel a foreign country because this was the way that the people acquire a second language.

She explained us that the native speakers have the pronunciation and cultural knowledge about the language but non-native speakers have strategies for teach the language and understand the process that students follow to acquire the language that is why both teaching in  a good  way but each one  had a particular abilities.

 The last presentation was called Kumaravadivelu´s Post Method.

This was about the post method condition:

The post method condition is a state of affairs that compels us to refigure the relationship between the theorizers and the practitioners of method.  The proposed strategic framework for L2 teaching consists of macro strategies and micro strategies. Macro strategies are general plans derived from theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical knowledge related to L2 learning teaching. A macro strategy is a broad guideline, based on which teachers can generate their own situation-specific, need-based micro strategies or classroom techniques. In other words, macro strategies are made operational in the classroom through micro strategies.

The strategic framework comprises the following 10 macro strategies:

(a) Maximize learning opportunities,

(b) Facilitate negotiated interaction,

(c) Minimize perceptual mismatches,

(d) Activate intuitive heuristics,

(e) Foster language awareness,

(f) Contextualize linguistic input,

(g) Integrate language skills,

(h) Promote learner autonomy,

 (i) Raise cultural consciousness, and

 (j) Ensure social relevance.

These presentations are very useful for my because I got more knowledge and different points of view about how to teach English and the elements that involve teaching.