Each new academic year is a blank notebook that we must fill out day by day, so before undertaking it we must take the time to reflect and think about overcoming the period that we just closed a few weeks ago, with little or much success. Part of it will come from our plans and efforts and another portion...
To work with groups of mixed language skills is not an easy job and teaching them oral expression may seem daunting. Even though reality shows that there will always be difficulties when communicating with other people, whether or not they are native speakers of the target language, in a learning environment the expectations are different. The ideal setting would be...
“Dime y lo olvido, enséñame y lo recuerdo, involúcrame y lo aprendo”
Benjamín Franklin
Esta frase tan conocida revela mucha verdad, especialmente cuando hablamos de enseñar a chicos de primaria. Empezamos esta serie de comentarios mencionando el criterio metodológico aplicable a la enseñanza de idiomas a niños y cómo éste nos ayuda a tomar las mejores decisiones sobre cómo aplicar con eficacia...
Finally, after two years of pandemic and in many cases a disastrous situation in the education field, things have started slowly to go back to normal. Kids and students in general are returning to their classrooms; some of them fully, some divided in rotating or segregated groups, using face to face or hybrid modalities and experiencing the relief of...
Learning a new language is not only challenging but also rewarding once we reach the objectives set. In the process we go through different stages, some of which may take longer than others inasmuch the time needed to attain each one varies from one person to another; each person has his own cadence. Despite this uncertainty, there is one...
One of the main objectives a person has when learning a new language is to be able to communicate using it in different situations. For instance, in a phone call at work, or exchanging ideas in a meeting. In case their plan is to speak the language when travelling, the occasions are endless. However, when our students are children...
