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During the “Methods and Approaches” course there was provided a detailed
explanation about the different teaching and learning ways to learn a language (in
our case English). Therefore, there are diversity of topics related with pedagogy for
teaching a language (and its educational achievements) those were very important
to envision my future experience as a languages teacher. I also should add that
among the diversity of texts read during the course. There were presented some
suggestions about the different ways to manage the educational contents in the
classroom and how to adapt them depending on the context.
During the development of the course it was explained a topic called Adapting
teaching materials, with the purpose of introduce the diverse ways to use a content
for teaching a language. According to that, those ways for using materials are
reflected in the attitudes of the teacher at the time of taking advantage of those
contents offered by the MEN, schools and virtual media:
Thus, this topic provides an analysis about how to manage in a smart way the
teaching resources to apply during a class
Nevertheless, textbooks and standard teaching materials are built for an specific
group. Then teachers should have criteria to choose materials for adapting them to
the environment: contextualized information, clarity of contents, methods and
approaches for teaching and specific learning proposes. Bhao (2016) exposes that
ELT materials should be linked to teaching strategies. Those materials sould be
applied according to the student’s learning needs.In adittion, the materials offer
new posibilities to create new materials that relate the student with the educational
environment.
The different opinions given during the course show to us some perspectives about
how to choose textbooks, make real changes of the resources to transmit the
contents and discover different contents that support the learning purposes
proposed by the institutional curriculum.
After taking notes from the course, read some texts about material adaptation and
dialogue with some languages teachers during the semester. I thought in some
other reasons for adapting material
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