Project
USING TICS IN THE ENGLISH CLASS
CONTEXT
Lorenza Villegas de Santos High school is located in San Calletano neighborhood in Medellin (Ant, Colombia). This is an all-girls school and it has three branches (three schools) called, Esteban Jaramillo, Simona Duque and the main building Lorenza Villegas de Santos.
USING TICS IN THE ENGLISH CLASS
CONTEXT
Lorenza Villegas de Santos High school is located in San Calletano neighborhood in Medellin (Ant, Colombia). This is an all-girls school and it has three branches (three schools) called, Esteban Jaramillo, Simona Duque and the main building Lorenza Villegas de Santos.
The principal of the high school is Maria Isabel Villa, and there are three coordinators, one for each section. It has 2220 students, all of them girls.
MISION
The Lorenza Villegas de Santos High School is an institution open to democracy and the commitment with the childhood and youth, as bases of the society, to be competent in the investigation and work. For that purpose we have an ethic and pedagogic human team.
VISION
In 2015, the High School will be recognized in its environment as lieder in searching formation, for its students have the conditions to participate actively in the building of a fair human and productive society.
DRESS CODE
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u can see in these pictures the everyday´s and the sport´s uniform.There are morning shift (from 6:00 am to 12:30pm) and afternoon shift ( from 12:40pm to 6:40pm)
The main branch has two blocks, in the A block we have a school restaurant, a big patio, for the brake and for practicing sports; two sets of bathrooms with seven toilets each one.
In the B block there is a theatre for 600 students called SANEY MADRID ZULUAGA, a parking lot, a big library called LUCELLY VILLEGAS DE SANTOS, the principal office, and the secretary office.
The school has two computer´s rooms. In the English classroom there is a video beam, a computer (but it´s broken), a DVD player, a TV set , a tape recorder, and it also has internet but it is too slow and most of the times it doesn´t work.
The relationships among students in general terms are good but sometimes they fight, specially for boys, Even tough they lack of many things the students have values and they respect their teachers and follow the rules.
Most of the students´ parents are watchmen. Taxi drivers, bricklayers, Messengers, street sellers, housekeepers, bus drivers, and most of them couldn´t study in a high school. Besides, many students do not have a father, due to the violence they were killed or they left them when they were little children. The socio- economic statues is low many of them are in stratus 1,2 or 3 and they are in the SISBEN which is the health system supported by the government.
There is a good environment to study, but is important to mention that outside the high school, it means in the neighborhood (Aranjues), there are bands of gangsters and criminals that are always looking for beautiful girls and some students like that kind of gays and that get them in troubles, and because of that sometimes they have to leave the school and the neighborhood. The students’ interests are to finish their studies in the High School and begin to work to help their families.
The relation between teachers and the administration is good, there are respect and cordiality.
There are four English teachers, two in each shift (morning and afternoon) .
I studied English at the University of Antioquia and I have a B.A in languages (English and Spanish).I have 15 years of experience working as an English teacher and I have worked in different High Schools and Universities like Politecnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid, Esumer,and Universidad Pascual Bravo. I like to be updated in language teaching topics and I have been taking different courses that help me to improve my knowledge and put that in practice in the classroom. I think English teacher have to use technologies in the classroom to make classes more interesting and they have to prepare themselves to use it in an appropriate way in language teaching. I also studied law in the same University and I think I am going to work as a lawyer in the near future, of course without leaving my work as an English teacher too.
OBJECTIVES
. - To implement the use of technology in the English classroom.
- To make a blog as a tool to improve language skills in English language teaching.
- To study and be prepared to teach students how to use technology in the English language learning.
THE STATE OF ART
There are a lot readings related to the use of technologies in the English language teaching. Monserrat Cassanovas Catala in his article INTERNET IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING, says that is it no new, technology has been used since 60s.
There are three pedagogical foundations that include the use of technology: the behaviorism, communicative and integrative.
In the 60s the first Computer- Assisted Language Learning (CALL) was based on a behaviorism learning model. In this model the computer was a Mechanical Tutor that valued the repeated exercises systematically for the students (drills).
The communicative perspective emerged at the end of 70s and the beginning of 80s as a reaction against the behaviorism.
The difference between both proposals was that in the communicative point of view the relevance in learning a language was the use of linguistic forms ( functional approach), and in behaviorism the most important thing was the correct use of linguistic forms.
Behind that proposals were the cognitive theories, that recognize that the learning is a creative process of discovering, that permits more possibilities for individual work.
The last step called integrative is based on a socio-cognitive focus of language learning That considers the use of language in a communicative context as the most important.
TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) look for the integration of the language skills,( oral and writing comprehension and oral and writing comprehension and oral and writing expression) and technology since a global point of view in the students learning .
Technology like Internet offers an educational environmental with a richness without precedents in general education and in the teaching-learning of English in particular.
The roll of the teacher
The main branch has two blocks, in the A block we have a school restaurant, a big patio, for the brake and for practicing sports; two sets of bathrooms with seven toilets each one.
In the B block there is a theatre for 600 students called SANEY MADRID ZULUAGA, a parking lot, a big library called LUCELLY VILLEGAS DE SANTOS, the principal office, and the secretary office.
The school has two computer´s rooms. In the English classroom there is a video beam, a computer (but it´s broken), a DVD player, a TV set , a tape recorder, and it also has internet but it is too slow and most of the times it doesn´t work.
The relationships among students in general terms are good but sometimes they fight, specially for boys, Even tough they lack of many things the students have values and they respect their teachers and follow the rules.
Most of the students´ parents are watchmen. Taxi drivers, bricklayers, Messengers, street sellers, housekeepers, bus drivers, and most of them couldn´t study in a high school. Besides, many students do not have a father, due to the violence they were killed or they left them when they were little children. The socio- economic statues is low many of them are in stratus 1,2 or 3 and they are in the SISBEN which is the health system supported by the government.
There is a good environment to study, but is important to mention that outside the high school, it means in the neighborhood (Aranjues), there are bands of gangsters and criminals that are always looking for beautiful girls and some students like that kind of gays and that get them in troubles, and because of that sometimes they have to leave the school and the neighborhood. The students’ interests are to finish their studies in the High School and begin to work to help their families.
The relation between teachers and the administration is good, there are respect and cordiality.
There are four English teachers, two in each shift (morning and afternoon) .
I studied English at the University of Antioquia and I have a B.A in languages (English and Spanish).I have 15 years of experience working as an English teacher and I have worked in different High Schools and Universities like Politecnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid, Esumer,and Universidad Pascual Bravo. I like to be updated in language teaching topics and I have been taking different courses that help me to improve my knowledge and put that in practice in the classroom. I think English teacher have to use technologies in the classroom to make classes more interesting and they have to prepare themselves to use it in an appropriate way in language teaching. I also studied law in the same University and I think I am going to work as a lawyer in the near future, of course without leaving my work as an English teacher too.
OBJECTIVES
. - To implement the use of technology in the English classroom.
- To make a blog as a tool to improve language skills in English language teaching.
- To study and be prepared to teach students how to use technology in the English language learning.
THE STATE OF ART
There are a lot readings related to the use of technologies in the English language teaching. Monserrat Cassanovas Catala in his article INTERNET IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING, says that is it no new, technology has been used since 60s.
There are three pedagogical foundations that include the use of technology: the behaviorism, communicative and integrative.
In the 60s the first Computer- Assisted Language Learning (CALL) was based on a behaviorism learning model. In this model the computer was a Mechanical Tutor that valued the repeated exercises systematically for the students (drills).
The communicative perspective emerged at the end of 70s and the beginning of 80s as a reaction against the behaviorism.
The difference between both proposals was that in the communicative point of view the relevance in learning a language was the use of linguistic forms ( functional approach), and in behaviorism the most important thing was the correct use of linguistic forms.
Behind that proposals were the cognitive theories, that recognize that the learning is a creative process of discovering, that permits more possibilities for individual work.
The last step called integrative is based on a socio-cognitive focus of language learning That considers the use of language in a communicative context as the most important.
TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) look for the integration of the language skills,( oral and writing comprehension and oral and writing comprehension and oral and writing expression) and technology since a global point of view in the students learning .
Technology like Internet offers an educational environmental with a richness without precedents in general education and in the teaching-learning of English in particular.
The roll of the teacher
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