We reached the end of the course, thanks a lot for your attendance, your participation, your hard work, your dedication, your pojects, your speeches and your ENTHUSIASM. I´ll miss you a lot!!
Here a gift for you.
Tips for Successful Language Learning
- Enjoy your learning because the ability to enjoy is the key to effective learning.
- Take every opportunity to use the language. Talk as much as possible and interact with others.
- Expose yourself as much as possible to the language you are learning. The more you read or listen to the foreign language, the faster you will learn it.
- Be (or become) an extrovert person. Participate. Jump in, ask when you don't know. Experiment, learn to develop guessing strategies and be willing to make hypotheses.
- Make mistakes. Learning is process of constantly making mistakes.
- You, the learner, are the most important factor in the language learning process. Success or failure will be determined by what you yourself contribute.
- Be your own teacher. Develop your own strategies, figure out what works for you - taking notes outside of class, mnemonic tricks, talking to yourself, etc.
- Teach what you learn. One way to increase your own language use is to teach what you have learned to someone else.
- Be prepared for frustration. Interacting with others in another language can be a humbling experience. Increasing one's proficiency in a second language and culture take both time and concentrated effort.
- Be observant. Keep your eyes and ears open. Much of what you need is going on around you.
- Use memorization. Look for routines, fixed or formulaic chunks of language you can use over and over, bits of songs or plays, etc.
- Go with the flow. Do not rely on rules or explanations to the exclusion of keeping things moving. Develop your ability to paraphrase rather than lapse into silence.
Hi teacher!
ResponderEliminarI would like to tell you that this is the first course I take in CELE that is very creative and you can learn at the same time, I enjoy every single activity you planned for us and I appreciate so much all your effort and dedication.
ps. I love the slide!! was hilarious!
The only thing I think you could improve, or make more activities about it, it’s reading, I know, this I can do it by my own but, I was curious about what kind of stories and tales you were going to give us.
Finally, I feel that this semester in your class I could improve and develop my skills of writing, listening and grammar. Thank you for all and I expect to have another teacher as good as you.
Dear Teacher!!!!
ResponderEliminarI´m glad to have taken this course with you. It was very funny and I learned alot.
I am agree with Mariana´s comment. You should do more reading activities.
The activitie that I enjoyed most was watching cartoons as south park, simpsons and the others. That was useful and practical.
Thanks!!!!!
hello teacher! I should write this anonymously, but I didn't know how.
ResponderEliminarI liked the class, I learned some things and removed many fears, such as public speaking.
I also learned that I must try harder in grammar =)
My only critic would be that the activities was not too longer, or were shorter, so we can do more activities and the class is not boring.
For now it's all thanks and happy holidays!!!!=)
Hello teacher, or should I say goodbye? =(
ResponderEliminarI really enjoyed the classs with you, from the moment Sussy told us that you were and excelent teacher, I knew I had to make everything as posible to be your student, and I did it!
The activities you gave to us, the way you motivated us to participate, (giving us candies) I think it was very special and nice, because after we came from our faculties, with some teacher who didn't have the patience as you had, these little details made the class very different.
The only thing I may suggest it's as Mariana said, more reading activities, to increase vocabulary, and some listening activities maybe.
It was very fun to share a lot of experiences with the group, and also with you Elena, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, hope to see you again in the advanced levels, really, thanks for showing me how much I love languages =)
Enjoy your holidays :)
hello teacher!!
ResponderEliminarI really liked to be with you in this course, even this is the first course that I take at CELE. I ejoyed all the games and I can say that I learnt many things.
I like the way you teach the language because it is funny and it becomes easier to learn. I agree with the other you should do more reading activities to increase our vocabulary. thanks for everything! I hope to see you soon in advance levels. good luck! and.. happy holidays!
Hi Teacher,this course has been a quite interisting one, I had never taken a course that made me so actively involved outside the classroom(the class blog, the south park quiz, etc.).The classes in the lab were quite entertaining(and you make me a FRIENDS addict), but some of the activities that we made in the classroom were too long or boring, dont take me wrong, the most of them were very funny and helped a lot with the development of the topics(the activity of the autobiography helped me a lot), but the other activities...felt like they were improvised.
ResponderEliminarBesides that all was fine and well done, im also very impresed in the time and effort that you spend in making the blog, the slides and the music video for the class, it has been a while since i saw so much dedication for a single group.
Well that was my opinion, and now its time to say goodbye teacher, it has been a pleasure.
Hi Teacher!!!
ResponderEliminarI really enjoyed your class, you made it funny with all the activities and with the way that you stimulated us to participate and practice the language not only in the clasroom even on spaces in internet.
Another think that helped me were the last tests, I noticed that I have to practice more grammar.
I think that you could do more activities of reading.
Teacher it was so nice to meet you!!! :D
hi, all I can say is that I enjoy the class in all the aspects, it was funny and hard too ( the exams) but I think the important thing is that I learned from you and I hope you still being this way because I like the way you teach and prepare all the activities to us and how you encourage us too. I liked the activities in the blog and this new way to do homework.
ResponderEliminarthanks for all
happy holidays!!!!!