19/11/2020:

19/11/2020:

1. Summary.

We started with the explanation of the task “Syllabus and Didactic Unit”. Then, we saw the presentations of each group that consist in a video that includes the information about one method and the performance of it as students and teachers. We worked with methods that the teacher gave to us, so each group had different ideas and representations.  

2. What I’ve learnt.

I’ve learnt the importance of knowing different methods to teach, because as a teacher we have to work with it, so we have to know the advantages and disadvantages before choosing one. In this way, I studied the types of methodology the last year, but through the performance I’ve seen the difficulties of methods like The Silent Way, because it doesn’t provide feedback; or The Direct Method, because it’s a good idea if learners have a base of learning, but it’s quite difficult to explain concepts trough this method because you only use native language and pupils are very young to understand it. But because of the advantages, there are a lot of methods that we could combine like Suggestopedia to get a class without nerves and have a relax atmosphere, because learners study better if they are comfortable, or Communicative Language Teaching to learn through the representation of real situations.

3. Opinion.

As future teachers, we have to practice how we want to teach, so it’s important to know the different methods that exist. From my point of view, we could use some of them in different levels of school, such as the Total Physical Response with learners of 5-6 years, The Communicative Language Teaching with pupils of the same level, or Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning and Multiple Intelligences with students of 9-10 years. I have this idea of practicing with various because all teachers have to renovate their form of teaching, so in this way, we could adapt those methods to each level.

Furthermore, I think that the method of my group could be quite difficult because of the performance. The Silent Way doesn’t have feedback, so the representation of it consists only in the speaking and ideas of students, the teacher point letters and they say them. I mean, it could be more difficult than the other methods because we haven’t got examples of tasks. All videos include a teacher who points something and students who read it.