Searching for coherence in language teaching: the issue of teaching competencies
This document is an attempt to show some theoretical issues teachers should take into account when adopting the commitment of teaching languages. Many things haven been said about teaching languages, but there has not been any systematic reflection about teaching a foreign language in our context. O...
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Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
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| description | This document is an attempt to show some theoretical issues teachers should take into account when adopting the commitment of teaching languages. Many things haven been said about teaching languages, but there has not been any systematic reflection about teaching a foreign language in our context. Our foreign language history has shown that Colombian teachers implement many things in their classrooms without realizing the impact of those implementations in the theoretical and practical field. Nowadays, some changes have been given to the New ICFES State Examination, and The Ministry of Education (MEN) has proposed in the curricula orientations the language competence education. Due to these new demands, it is necessary to revise the way how a foreign language is taught in our educational context. To this respect, the present paper will mention some of the most important aspects teachers should reflect upon when dealing with language teaching. The first thing to do is to define the approach or the method to be used (the nature of language and of language learning) second, it is necessary to define the design to be implemented according to the theory proposed. The design will deal with the teaching objectives, the type of syllabus adopted (content choice and organization), the types of learning and teaching activities, the learner and teachers roles, and the role of instructional materials. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef5c507e2c1747c88110c931c885dfed2022-12-21T18:13:12ZengUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasColombian Applied Linguistics Journal0123-46412248-70852011-04-010795107167Searching for coherence in language teaching: the issue of teaching competenciesCarlos Rico Troncoso0Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasThis document is an attempt to show some theoretical issues teachers should take into account when adopting the commitment of teaching languages. Many things haven been said about teaching languages, but there has not been any systematic reflection about teaching a foreign language in our context. Our foreign language history has shown that Colombian teachers implement many things in their classrooms without realizing the impact of those implementations in the theoretical and practical field. Nowadays, some changes have been given to the New ICFES State Examination, and The Ministry of Education (MEN) has proposed in the curricula orientations the language competence education. Due to these new demands, it is necessary to revise the way how a foreign language is taught in our educational context. To this respect, the present paper will mention some of the most important aspects teachers should reflect upon when dealing with language teaching. The first thing to do is to define the approach or the method to be used (the nature of language and of language learning) second, it is necessary to define the design to be implemented according to the theory proposed. The design will deal with the teaching objectives, the type of syllabus adopted (content choice and organization), the types of learning and teaching activities, the learner and teachers roles, and the role of instructional materials.http://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/calj/article/view/167Second Language AcquisitionTeaching Languages by competenciesapproach and design |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Rico Troncoso Searching for coherence in language teaching: the issue of teaching competencies Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal Second Language Acquisition Teaching Languages by competencies approach and design |
| title | Searching for coherence in language teaching: the issue of teaching competencies |
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| title_short | Searching for coherence in language teaching: the issue of teaching competencies |
| title_sort | searching for coherence in language teaching the issue of teaching competencies |
| topic | Second Language Acquisition Teaching Languages by competencies approach and design |
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