Purpose:
Each participant will recognize the impact of the acquisition of English as a second language by analyzing some of its elements, as well as the learning processes to enhance the comprehensive development of students.
Address to:
High school teachers who teach English as a foreign language.
Guidelines:
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How do we learn the mother tongue and how do we learn a second language?
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What are the cognitive and metacognitive benefits of learning a second language?
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Can you really think in English?
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What are some of the barriers in learning English?
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Who is the English learner?
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What are the elements of didactic planning?
Duration:
- 20 hours
Available enrollment methods:
- Videoconference
Participants:
- Minimum: 10 participants
- Maximum: 30 participants
Contents:
Module I. Language as a structure of thought
- The high school foreign language student
- Language, language and speech
- Language as a structure of thought
- Impact of second language learning on the structure of thought.
Module II. Relationship between the mother tongue and the second language
- Acquisition of the mother language and the foreign language
- Conscious level of the first language
- Transfer of skills between both languages
- “Interlanguage”
Module III. Teaching process – learning English
- English teaching
- English learning
- Roles in the educational process
- “Strategy instruction” – Learning to learn
Module IV. Second language learning and its impact on comprehensive development
- The student as an integral subject
- Sociocultural aspects of the language
- Second language: key to other worlds
- Learning barriers and proposals for overcoming them
Module V. The didactic sequence from the integral perspective
- Purposes and objectives
- Competencies
- Relationship between the elements of a sequence
- Expected learning or performance levels
- The importance of the evaluation instrument in autonomous learning