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Cristina Rodríguez DíazMaría Asuero Vázquez

SUPUESTOS PRÁCTICOSDE INGLÉS PRIMARIA

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CRISTINA RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZMARÍA ASUERO VÁZQUEZ

Segunda edición, 2016

Autoras: Cristina Rodríguez Díaz y María Asuero VázquezMaquetación: David Aguilar Gil y Patricia Penavella SotoEdita: Educàlia EditorialImprime: PublicepISBN: 978-84-943204-8-4Depósito legal: V-262-2015Printed in Spain/Impreso en España.

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INDEX1. SHORT QUESTIONS

1.1. What are the Key competences? Number them.1.2. Which are the characteristics of students on the 1st course of primary

education?1.3. Which are the multiple intelligences?1.4. How can you introduce ICTs in the English classroom?1.5. Are games useful in the English class?1.6. Which is the natural order to teach the linguistic skills? Reason your answer.1.7. What’s the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages?1.8. Do you know Jeremy Harmer? Explain his teaching method.1.9. Which is the main objective of Foreign Language Teaching? Reason your

answer.1.10. How can you motivate students? Put examples.

2. HOW TO DEVELOP A CASE STUDY?2.1. What’s best use a text book or make our own materials?2.2. How would you teach phonetics in third primary?2.3. How must one work the oral comprehension in the 3rd level of primary?

How would you act on pupils who are not interested in learning English? Reason you answer.

2.4. Explain the differences you can fi nd between the traditional methods of teaching English and communicative teaching. Give an example addressed to children of the 3rd level of primary education. Reason your answer.

2.5. Can you tell us how to work on songs in an English class addressed to the third course of primary? It’s a school of a little village near the city. Give reasons for your answer.

2.6. In which models and with which observation instruments would you register the evaluation aspects of pupils of English on a class of 25 pupils of the 3rd level of primary education? Describe their sections in appropriate terms. Give reasons for your answer.

2.7. When one talks about Pair Work as a working technique in the English class two questions may arise: “Why to work in pairs?” and “How to work in pairs?” Answer them and reason your answer.

2.8. Indicate which must be, in your mind, the criteria to select teaching materials for auditory comprehension in English, especially on older pupils. Reason your answer. (The school is placed in the outskirts area of a town. Most of the families are unemployed).

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3. HOW TO DEVELOP A CASE STUDY?3.1. It’s about an intercultural primary school situated in the outlying area of the

town, with a high number of immigrant pupils. You must develop a topic (addressed to pupils of 5th grade of Primary Education). This topic will have an introductory character. In this classroom, with 20 pupils, 6 of them are Romanian, 5 of them are Ecuadorian and the rest of them are Spanish. Which methodology would you use? Reason your answer.

3.2. Which criteria would you follow in order to choose an English textbook for the 4th grade of Primary Education? How would you complement that textbook with other additional material, including authentic material?

3.3. You are teaching a group of children in the 3rd grade of Primary Education, but there is a child who never takes part in the activities provided. What would you do with this student? Justify your answer.

4. How would you introduce environmental problems in the english classroom?

5. Explain the use of puppets to teach english.

6. Can you explain the theory of the multiple intelligences? How can it be applied to the english lesson?

7. Give an example of a children’s song and how you would teach it.

8. Are english textbooks useful?

9. Do you think english teachers should use l1 in their lessons?

10. Explain how you can involve parents in your english lessons.

11. How do you make resources with the students?

12. How would you decorate the english classroom to maximize learning?

13. How would you help your studetns to develop study techniques?

14. How would you include non-sexist values in infant education?

15. How would you organise a parent-teacher meeting?

16. How would you teach english to a child with aspergers syndrome?

17. How would you teach the verb to be?

18. If you were the only teacher of a unitary school, how would you organise space and time when teaching english?

19. Organise a session to promote reading in english with students of 5th grade of primary education. Suggest topics, objectives, activities, resources and methodologies you will use to achieve that aim.

20. Organise an outing with your english language learners.

21. What is an iep?

22. Design activities to work on pronunciation for 5th grade students.

23. How would you include entrepeneruship in primary education and in the english classroom?

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1. SHORT QUESTIONSThe fi rst thing we have to do is to select the questions we are going to develop.

Taking into account that we have few time to develop the questions, we cannot lose time selecting them, so we should take fi ve minutes to read the questions slowly and we should choose that questions whose answer we have clearly structured in our brain.

To answer to the questions we will follow the following layout:

Introduction.

WHAT are they asking about?

Specifi c content: Defi nition, student development, author, classifi cation, etc.

Conclusion.

Legislation.

I am going to develop some questions as examples.

1.1. What are the Key competences? Number them.According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2001) and the

Organic Law for improvement of Quality in Education 8/2013 of 9th of December, we fi nd 7 Key Competences which have to be developed across the whole course and in every lesson plan.

1. Communication and linguistic competence.

2. Mathematical competence and Science and technology competence.

3. Digital competence.

4. Learning to learn competence.

5. Social and civic competences.

6. Sense of initiative and autonomy competences.

7. Cultural awareness and expression competence.

The contribution of the English area to the development of the basic competences is that the study of a foreign language helps to the development of the communication and linguistic competence in a direct way as it does the fi rst or mother tongue.

The foreign language learning gets an extra value if it includes a refl ection over itself, so that every student identifi es how he or she learns the best. That’s why in the plans I have designed we can fi nd in the self assessment that is a specifi c space of refl ection on each one’s learning and in this way this area contributes to the learning to learn competence.

This refl ection favours the sense of initiative and autonomy competences since it prepares the students to improve individually in the knowledge and usage of a language.

The aforesaid competences are nowadays related to the digital competence. Information technologies and communication offer the possibility to communicate “in real time” with whoever around the world and a quick access to a great amount of data increasing day by day. The knowledge of a foreign language brings the opportunity to access to that universe of information and communication.

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So, according to the previous point, we can say that the Foreign Language Area helps to the development of the social and civic competences. Learning a Foreign Language implies knowing the different speaking communities of that language. That learning must be treated in the class in order to get an interest for discovering other cultures and get on with other English speaking or learners favouring the respect and integration.

The English area contributes to the development of the Cultural awareness and expression competence through the introduction of texts and literary models adapted to the proper level.

For the theoretical development of this case study I have taken into account the following legal documents:

• “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching and Assessment” (CFE, 2001), Council of Europe and the Language Policy Division.

• The Organic Law for improvement of Quality in Education 8/2013 of 9th of December.

• The Royal Decree 126/2014 of February 28th, which establish the curriculum in Primary Education.

• Order ECD/65/2015 of 21 January, the relations between the competences, content and evaluation criteria of primary education, compulsory secondary education and high school are described.

1.2. Which are the characteristics of students on the 1st course of primary education?

The students in fi rst course of primary education are full of vitality and learn while they play, they move and do activities they love, as their motivation to learn a foreign language comes from the interest of the task and not the future usefulness of these teachings. Generally, students are open and uninhibited and dare easily in an activity even when their ability to maintain the attention on a single task is considerably limited. Students at this age need a relaxed and friendly atmosphere in the classroom to develop their self-esteem. Thus, at least initially, they need that the activity is very structured in order to feel safe to work and communicate, and it is very important their relationship with the teacher in the classroom.

The foreign language should be taught in a natural and proper way according to the pupil’s maturation process. It is important the linguistic immersion in it since the beginning of its study, as most of the opportunities for learning occur only in the school environment. This makes necessary to include contents that incorporate non-academic contexts.

1.3 Which are the multiple intelligences?Howard Gardner of Harvard has identifi ed seven distinct intelligences. This theory has

emerged from recent cognitive research and "documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways," according to Gardner (1991). According to this theory, "we are all able to know the world through language, logical-mathematical analysis, spatial representation, musical thinking, the use of the body to solve problems or to make things, an understanding of other individuals, and an understanding of ourselves. Where individuals differ is in the strength of these intelligences - the so-called profi le of intelligences -and in the ways in which such intelligences are invoked and combined to carry out different tasks, solve diverse problems, and progress in various domains."

Gardner says that these differences "challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way and that a uniform, universal measure

Autora: Cristina Rodríguez Díaz