SUBJECT: DIDACTICS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TEACHER: DARLENE MATA

STUDENTS:  OMAR ANTONIO QUINTANILLA SALAS
                        HELEN JEANETH MARROQUIN SARCEÑO
                        CHRISTIAN ALEXANDER MORAN MOLINA
                        JACQUELINNE MELISSA TREJO MARROQUIN
                        KEVIN CHRISTIAN POLANCO AVELAR

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INTRODUCTION

Teaching a new language to young learners ir a difficult thing to do because not all the people are able to do it, teaching a new language is a new experience that can help us to improve our academic skills. This document is designed to let people know how they must teach. It will not show every single aspecto of it, but it will give an idea of how to start teaching in an accurately way.

We have learnt a lot in this subject, we tried to apply what we have learnt in order to achieve our purpose: to improve our skills by teaching to pupils in a correct way following what Teacher Darlene taught us through the semester.

It has been a funny experience, and now we want to explain how you can apply these new ways to teach if you want to be a successful Didactics of the English Language’s student.

Index

Teaching Terms

The teaching terms are very important as we have a broader vocabulary and we can adapt it to the way of teaching. It is always important to know new terms and use them at the time we are teaching

LESSON PLAN:A lesson plan is a teacher's plan for teaching a lesson. It can exist in the teacher's mind, on the back of an envelope.It helps the teacher in both planning and executing the lesson. And it helps the students, unbeknownst to them, by ensuring that they receive an actual lesson with a beginning

KNOWLEGE: An understanding of knowledge requires some grasp of its relationship to information. In everyday language, it has long been the practice to distinguish between information — data arranged in meaningful patterns — and knowledge — which has historically been regarded as something that is believed, that is true (for pragmatic knowledge, that works) and that is reliable.

AMOUNT: A quantity of something, or the sum of multiple quantities expressed as a number that may or may not be expressed as a number. For example, a company may have a great amount of brand recognition.

PHONICS: Sort your phonemes from your graphemes, decoding from encoding and digraphs from trigraphs with our parents' guide to phonics teaching. Our step-by-step explanation takes you through the different stages of phonics learning, what your child will be expected to learn and the vocabulary you need to know.

TOPIC-BASED: Topic-oriented authoring for conceptual and task information has its roots in Minimalism, an instructional design technique first espoused by John Carroll. The minimalist approach to information design focuses on identifying the smallest amount of instruction that allows for the successful completion of a task, or that provides basic knowledge of a concept. 

DICHOTOMY: 

In literature, dichotomy is when something is divided into two parts. These two parts could be equal, contradictory, or two opposing forces. Oftentimes, writers include dichotomy to create conflict.

Lesson Planning

A lesson plan is a guide where the teacher details step by step what he will develop during the class, also including the objectives he wants to achieve at the end of the class.

Creating a lesson involves content and specific step; for example, the goals that are expected to be achieved, the activities that you will use to achieve the objectives of the class, the materials that you will use for the development of each activity, etc.

A good lesson plan helps you to create effective activities for each student because not all children are equa; not all children learn at the same rhythm, so a pre-class approach helps create ideas that make all children gain knowledge.

lesson plan helps the teacher improve his teaching; it helps him to establish the purpose of the class. It helps the teacher to evaluate himself and think if what he did fulfilled what was planned, comparing the established objectives and what he achieved at the end of the class, to see, if he managed to achieve the objectives, and if he did not achieve it, he helps him find ways. Doing so may change activities because they may not have worked, since not all activities work the same with all children, but you can see what types of activities work for you and implement them to achieve the purpose of the lesson, which are the objectives and improve the quality of teaching.

The Young Language Learner.

Before to star, we have to know clearly who are young learners. Think of a child about 8 or 9 years old; now think what they like to do? And think about their behavior.  

 In this age their knowledge is still limited and most of them read and write in their native language. This means it is easier to teach them to read and write. Talking about expectations about school, they come from a different culture so, they have different expectations.

But what happened about teaching English to young learners? Some children may only hear and speak English during English class and the amount children are able to learn depends on the amount of English they hear, use and see. Their learning also depends of the teacher and the material didactic that they use should be interesting for them. You can include games, songs, dynamics and activities.

Young learners think logically, they can follow instructions, they have greater memory capacity so, they are allow to develop activities such as writing and listening to put into practice the four macro skills. The motivation is an important factor that can affect the process of teaching and for make that they feel motivated you have to know which activities they like to do and try to exploit their abilities.  

Some students learn because of their curiosity, they see something interesting and they want to do it so, you as a teacher have to try to make the class interesting for them making games and activities for introducing a new topic or to remember something really important. You have to be careful in the way in which you are going to teach because in this age they are going to remember you because of the way in which you teach.