1st WEEK

 

10th of November of 2020…

Today we start the second part of the course on ELT. Firstly, we have seen the guidelines of this new stage of ELT. The presentation was like a overview of what it is prepared four us for the next two months. I must admit that the idea of creating our own syllabus make me feel nervous, excited, and scared all at the same time. It seems like a new challenge for me, but let’s be clear, is a new challenge of my path of becoming the best teacher I can be, so, I will achieve it with lots of enthusiasm, desire and creativity.

The next day, 11^th of November, we spend the whole class talking and discovering about Bilingual Education & CLTL in Spain in within the European Framework. For example, we have seen the British Council programs, their mobility programs across Europe, etc. Their main idea about acquiring L2 is that it must be centred on children learning English as they have learned their mother tongue. That is why the methodology is learner centred, based on the direct method at first.

Another programme we have seen was the Madrid Community (CLIL) Bilingual Project. Here there are not native teachers but native assistants who are students. Personally, I do not like this because, even though the children would learn a proper accent, these person are not qualified to be a teacher, so maybe the methodology or approaches they might use could not be suitable or good for students to learn the language moreover the accent. But that is only my point of view. Another feature about this programme is that, at least, 1/3 of the classes the students have per week are English ones.