Reflection

REFLECTION
“FUNCTIONS”
“Primary learners do not need to learn functions”. This is the comment I agreed the most because I don’t think beginners, such as primary students, should learn itas functions, they just have to learn the basic information so they can know how to express.
The other one I agreed on was “Learning functions is more useful for intermediate or advancedlearners than for beginners”, it is more useful to learn it as an advanced or intermediate students because they need to know how to express on a certain situation that they would face to; when to useformal expressions or informal expressions.
Functions are very useful when we learn a second language.

Alma Ximena Juncal Saldivar
February, 2012

REFLECTION
“READING”Reading is not one of my strongest skills, I get easily distracted but, besides all that, I like to read a lot, so I do my best for my students to understand.
The comment I agree on thisreflection is: “My learners really like me to read them stories, even if they don’t understand everything”. When I was on kindergarten, teachers have always read me stories in English and I alwaysenjoy it a lot, on primary school, teachers continued with that education on reading. Now, I love doing that with my students almost every Friday until I finish the reading. They have a very wonderfultime and every Friday they are anxious so I can continue reading the story. Sometimes I give them stories so they can read them and share what they understand about the story, even though they don’tunderstand everything, they catch the main idea of what the story is about; also, in the projector, I put a video where adults are reading a story and they can read while listening the story.I think this dynamics are very useful, and even though the stories sometimes are not about what we are seeing on the unit, it helps so they can improve their vocabulary and their comprehension....