Approaches
Having Stunning Methodology, Materials and Sources Guarantees that a teacher will do their job right?
Flor de María Vila - 0 Unfortunately, there are many teachers who still believe that teaching English means to “display” the knowledge which students are expected to acquire. Yet, some educators are eager to find the right methodology for their courses because they think it would help themselves achieve their objective: make pupils learn. On the other hand, some professionals are willing to accept any...
Nobody can deny the vital importance of the presence of culture in every lesson we teach. However, the question of when to teach it and how to approach it are still aspects which need to be carefully considered. On one hand, the traditional apportionment of language in four skills makes it hard for teachers to identify the aim of a...
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If you are teaching adults you may probably find yourself in the situation in which despite all the effort you put into preparing a lesson, your methodology does not seem to match your students’ expectations. What’s going on? Why is it that teaching adults may not be that easy after all?
When teaching an adult group of students the...
Approaches
How Important are Textbooks After All? Can they decide the fate of our Students?
Enrique Rojas - 2 Taking a look at schools around the world, at its different levels, we can notice that textbooks, and textbook series in the case of foreign language teachers, have acquired, for a sizable number of years now, but still in the increase, an enormous importance in the view of parents and school authorities alike. This is so much so that...
Centro de Idiomas de la Universidad del Pacifico is pleased to present our Research Group, which was created with the objective of being a place for reflection and debate on the pedagogical task in the field of language teaching. Within our initial activities, today we share with you the creation of the blog that we have nominated Language Teaching Bloggers.