Categoría: On Education
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Proyectos – los buenos por qué de mi desaparición
Hará mañana un mes que no publico absolutamente nada en el web-blog, y es que he estado muy ocupado. Para empezar me he graduado, ya soy maestro de inglés, cosa que agradezco mucho. Han sido cuatro años muy largos y muy duros – pero ahí estoy, un maestro más sin poder ejercer. Sin embargo, aunque…
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On Dialogic teaching – CLIL through oral communication
During my last Practicum as an English teacher on a Catalan Primary School, I’ve been teaching Science through CLIL. When my tutor proposed me to teach a subject using a foreign language (L2) instead of just teaching English – you now, grammar and vocabulary – I happily agreed. Now, I’ve been studying subjects in L2…
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On CLIL: A Sociocultural Perspective
I’ve been researching on CLIL for the lasts few months in order to develop my Final Work on my Degree (How to properly CLIL), and now and then I’ve found several works from Josephine Moate. The one that we’re talking about today is part of a general research on a pedagogical model for CLIL. As…
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On MARILLE – Promoting plurilingualism in the majority language classroom
Learning a language not only provides you with the capacity to communicate with a larger range of people all over the world, but to expand the knowledge you have on cultures and lifestyles. Languages reflect the cultures, traditions, aims and spirit of every country or people who speak eat – every word, every phrase comes…
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Child-Centered Education
The title – and topic – of this post should reflect an accurate description of our Educational System. Pitifully, it doesn’t. In fact, our System resembles a factory in which effective members of our society are «produced». We hardly can say «educated» or «taught», as their education is based upon a series of compulsory knowledge…
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Pocketfully
Before starting my Practicum III on Monday, I read a chapter called Aula (Classroom) from Joan Todó’s A butxacades (Pocketfully would be an accurate translation of the title): a handful of narrative essays involving memory, arts, the economic crisis, etc. Of course, Aula talks about school-education. This chapter follows a week in the life of…
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