What most novice English teachers dream of becoming skilled at are things such as how to begin the lesson in a diverse motivating manner every time, how to act when something unexpected occurs, what to do when pupils do not understand their explanations, along with how to react when they act up or misbehave, among various other awkward situations....
Professional Development
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...
Professional Development
WHY TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AT UNIVERSITIES?
Zarela Cruz - 27
Wouldn’t it be great to have the chance to study English for Academic purposes while being at university? Of course, it would be. In itself it is a very important comparative advantange in terms of marketing, but as we well know, English studies are postponed by students who most of the times consider it is just a requirement to...
Professional Development
Are the new Changes in Teaching English in our Country Realistic?
Language Teaching Bloggers - 0 By Carmen Hurtado Mena Education is not only essential to groom the personality of any individual, but a prerequisite for the socio-economic development of a country. From this perspective, governments play the most important role after parents’ efforts to provide children with an upright and worthy education. In recent times the teaching of English has gained significance in the curricula...
Teaching English as a foreign language in early years is a particularly challenging undertaking. Unfortunately, in our country this responsibility seems to be taken for granted and is affected negatively by a number of misconceptions which, in the end, may transform it into a missed opportunity.
First of all, there seems to be a problem with the choice of English...
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.