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Teaching listening strategies

Listening is one of the skills, in my context, that are most difficult to develop. Students say not to understand anything when authentic or adapted materials are used in the classroom. They get frustrated and develop a negative perspective toward listening activities. However the problem may not be in students' listening speaking but in the king of strategy that the teacher is using. Either a selective, reactive, intensive, responsive, extensive or interactive the task has to include characteristics that engage the student. With this in mind, I want to talk about an activity we did in Mathew's class. This activity did not have a name but I would call it "the cooler". I would call it that way because in this activity the teacher tells a story or gives commands, while the students walk around the classroom. The teacher, then, says the word "freeze" at anytime of the story for the students to stay in the position they are at the moment. I consider that the m...
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TRUE COLORS

Colors, after Gavin's class I can't help thinking on gold color, which is mine. It is one of the personality test that I have taken that has been really accurate according to who I am. It really surprised me to read the characteristics and find that it was a description of myself. It also helped me to realize that I need to be more of the other colors. I thought about my classes and my students and I do not if they really enjoy having a gold teacher. What characteristics of a gold teacher should I change? Do I enjoy being  gold teacher? These are the main questions that come to my mind, I do not have the answer yet but I think I will spent several days to find the answer. I would like to apply this test to my colleagues and my students. With my colleagues it will help them to identify their strength and weaknesses. I would suggest them to set a goal to change a characteristic of their color that represents a weakness. With my students it would help me to make teams that has s...
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Can I have my students speak in English?

One of my current concerns about language learning is the extent to my students produce oral language at the end of the school year. At the more basic level I have my students repeat a set of expressions (drills) so they, in a way, master the pronunciation and are confident to participate in controlled speaking activities. I also have my students to use written language as a support to speak in English. However I know that this type of activities just address a small area of speaking skills and are not student-centered. In the last two days, in Matthew's class we talked about speaking macro and micro skills, types of classroom speaking performance and its principles. I had the opportunity to observe several learner-centered activities to develop speaking skills, what I noticed is that most of these activities were aligned with the communicative method. An activity that caught my attention was the one when we were asked to make an appointment with different profesionalist (jobs). ...
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