October 27th Class

On this class we talked about theory, motivation and methodologies, and we reflected about what do we believe in and what are our values as English teachers and learners, through the questionnaire below:

This was a really good exercise because it made us rethink what sometimes get as an automatic practice, as it could be seem, the questionnaire makes us pay attention on the learners (questions 2 and 4), language conception (questions 1 and 8), teaching (questions 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13), motivation (question 5) and culture (question 9) .

Understanding a text - THE BOXER

We worked with the song "The Boxer", by Simon and Garfunkel. The activity started with the song listening, after we had some questions to answer and by the end we had a debate abou itt. I really enjoyed that class, because it gave a practical way of how to teach taking into consideration LC and the text as the minimal meaning maker, as well as it was open minding.    

Class debate (20th of August)

On our debate I realise that:

-Working with listening skills: when the activity involves listening and music, it's better for me to have the lyrics and just listen to the song, once with the videoclip I don't know where to pay attention (on the image or on the lyrics) that give us different things to be reading at the same time.

-Student's autonomy: I still have a lot of questions to be answered on this matter, so I will leave my questions to be answered latter on.
1) Can you always learn like that?
2) Do all the students can be autonomous?
3) How autonomous can you be in an oppressive world like ours?

If you want debate it in here you are more than welcome...

Another brick in the wall & amolda o bicho na parede ´s videoclip

On the 13th of this month we watched Pink Floyd and Falcão videoclip´s.
It was an interesting activity because it was clear that the images and lyrics produce an effect of contiguity and more than that it was another opportunity for me and my classmates to try to read critically all the languages that are present on a videoclip.