La evolución de los modelos pedagógicos del siglo XX como transcendencia al aprendizaje autónomo

     A lo largo de los años han surgido diversas teorías sobre la mejor manera como se puede dar el aprendizaje óptimo y como este se puede direccionar a favor del estudiante con el fin de desarrollar sus potencialidades como sujeto pensante y generador de aprendizaje autónomo. Se ha pasado desde teorías rusticas y autoritarias a unas más amigables con los aprendices en su interacción con las personas y los objetos.  

Formas de Aprendizaje Personales Mediante el Uso de las Tecnologías

Actualmente la tecnología permite la interacción entre las personas a nivel mundial rompiendo con barreras que no lo permiten como la distancia, la cultura y el idioma. Esto es gracias a una serie de dispositivos de alta tecnología con un ambiente digital, atractivo y de fácil uso

Relaciones entre Educación y Desarrollo Humano

1. ¿Cuál o cuáles son las principales relaciones de sentido identificadas entre educación y desarrollo humano?

Considero tres argumentos completos que definen y articulan la educación con el desarrollo humano, las cuales son las que se deberían fortalecer en el territorio nacional:

Relaciones de sentido entre la educación, la pedagogía y el desarrollo humano

Una de las mejores inversiones que siempre podrá realizar la humanidad es la implementación de un sistema educativo que garantice el desarrollo personal, emocional, social, político, humano y en todas sus temas ramificaciones. Esto se logrará con solucionando los asuntos que acarrean la sociedad los cuales impiden el avance en el desarrollo de la humanidad, la adquisición de una cultura trascendental y saludable y, sin lugar a dudas, el de las próximas generaciones.

Headaches with Cards

Nowadays, there are many problems related to plastic money that affect people without distinguishing gender or age. Namely credit cards and debit cards are those that present issues. These situations occur after a couple of weeks or even days of acquiring the card. As a result of those problems you will be involved in debts and products that you have to pay. That is why you must be careful with your words.

Language Acquisition And Learning

Language learning is a natural process in human life and in this process intervene some aspects in the student’s learning life. Some of these aspects are the process of language learning; the similarities and differences between acquire and learn a language and the Krashen’s hypothesis in language learning.

Firstly, children learn their first language by listening and imitating sounds of the language with which child has contact through other people of the same language. Soon after, when child grows he is able to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

Nevertheless, children can acquire or learn a language and they acquire it through the communication with people. Also, in this process children do not pay attention to grammatical rules of the language and their learning process is subconscious. In fact, they will learn better the first language when they practice it. Moreover, most people learn a language by instruction. They learn grammatical rules and many vocabulary lists, but they do not develop speaking and writing skills. That is to say, their learning processes are conscious and they know the knowledge that they have. Therefore, this is called language learning.

Language acquisition and learning have characteristics very similar. For example, both processes need much time to be developed and it is necessary to figure out a set of language rules each one. In addition, language is learned through observation and practice in communicative interactions among students or people can talk or are learning the same language. Likewise, mistakes made by students are a natural part of language acquisition.

On the other hand language acquisition and learning have some differences too. For instance, when you learn a new language, you have a prior understanding of how language works, but when you are a child you learn language from scratch. However, errors made by first language learners are accepted, whereas errors made by foreign language learners do are corrected.

Moreover, you learn a language when you understand the messages of people that they are trying to convey.  That is to say, you acquire the language by the comprehension of the information. Therefore, you are able to learn and command a language when you understand what people say and that is the best way to acquire a language.

Also, it is important students can express freely without fear to make some error. That is to say, those learners who focus on grammatical rules too much might not acquire correctly the language. Therefore, paraphrasing to Krashen, teacher should not correct too much students, because they will feel fear when they try to speak. This is called monitor correction device and does not have to be overused.

In language learning is fundamental a low affective filter. This is important when teacher is going to teach and learner is going to learn. According to Krashen, “the affective filter can be thought of as a wall that is present around the learner. If that wall is too high because of stress, then language learning cannot take place.” Knowing this, teacher would have to include new activities to impede students get stressed in class.

Finally and as a result, through these hypotheses, teachers know what they can do and not to get students develop their knowledge in a language. Also, those people who learn by themselves know now how to begin learning and that their results being excellent. Both, teacher and learner have not to teach and memorize vocabulary lists, but to have the opportunity to exchange with other students by conversations or interactive classes.

 CONCLUSIONS

1. Learning to communicate by speaking and writing as well as to comprehend what others say by listening and reading is so essential for human welfare where people are talking every-time and our ability to communicate with our community is primordial to understand them.

2. You learn a language when you understand the messages of people that they are trying to convey.  That is to say, you acquire the language by the comprehension of the information. Therefore, you are able to learn and command a language when you understand what people say.

3. Learning a foreign language can have different reasons and can be learned at any age, however the first language is learned for survival and you learn it when you are born.

REFERENCES

Haynes, J. (n.d.). Language Acquisition vs. Language Learning. Retrieved June 13, 2014, from everythingESL: http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/language_acquisiti_vs_language_02033.php

language acquisition. (n.d.). Retrieved June 15, 2014, from State College of Florida: http://faculty.scf.edu/sharric/lesson11/lesson11topic3.htm

Wikipedia. (n.d.). Language acquisition. Retrieved June 13, 2014, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition

What Is Culture And Why Should It Be Taught? | Language and Culture

Culture is an aspect of life that everyone creates along the way and all people interchange many elements of it. For example, culture involves a language, customs, history, values, attitudes, and so on. All these elements join people and they modify it every day through the best communication media which is the language that they have in common.

Besides, that “Culture defines not only what its members should think or learn but also what they should ignore or treat as irrelevant” (Eleanor Armour-Thomas & Sharon-ann Gopaul- McNicol, 1998: 56). This is particularly true due to citizens were bred under rules, values, thoughts and behaviors.

In the same way, culture is the foundation of communication, language goes beyond words and structures, it is related to culture directly due to culture explains who talks to whom, and how people encode messages and so on.

On the other hand, teaching the culture in the classroom it is very necessary to let students know how native speakers thing and act. However, culture is viewed as some that go beyond and cover more aspects and it is not something that you can teach; it is something that you acquire along the time. So, it is necessary to show the way and the classroom is the place which offers the chance to learn by interacting each other through festivals, ceremonies, common expression, and so on.

Likewise, it is necessary to know students already got a culture before they know one. So, teaching culture brings awareness and fosters the student’s observation of details in communication with native speakers of the target language.

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEW 1:

She says that some of the most important aspects to understand culture of English language, a apart of the language, it’s to get involved on their holidays like Memorial Day and Flag Day; relationship and values. This elements are essential to understand English especially USA. This is particularly true due to everybody in Colombia are very different and each person has his or her own way of being and acting due to culture, history and education. Their people are similar to other people. However, the people from this country are very open and have an easy way of make a relationship with others so quickly. They have the characteristic of smiling everything and enjoying everywhere.

INTERVIEW 2:

He says that the most primordial aspects for teaching the culture are the language, history, values, beliefs, and so on. He says that values are very essential to understand what a person really is. For instance Colombian people have their own characteristics of being way and some of them could be higher than other because all of them are so different aspects like the ones mentioned before. However, there are a couple of good habits that excel on everyone such as their capacity of not giving up as easily, finding solutions for everything and charisma to delight everything and like this way make friends.

INTERVIEW 3:

He says that some of the most useful elements to teach at a school to understand other culture are the customs, history beliefs and attitudes. This is a mandatory to know it and not go judging people without does not know it the truth. He said that beliefs, According to the Political Constitution, Colombia is a lay country in general. Nevertheless, like in other developed countries, there are people with different deities and citizens praise then in different ways some of them are acceptable in the society but there are others that are very freak and creepy as well as there are people who do not believe in anything and other who believe in energy and the spiritual and multidimensional power to cure and transcend as on a energetically way.

In the same way, other important aspect is the attitudes. For example, Colombian behavior it’s a little different from other countries. For example, in united stated people are reserved and Colombians tend to tell everyone about their country customs or food. Also, Colombians persist more than others to reach what they want and that make them competitive people, but in the same way they know when relax and save time. All these attitudes as visible on some Colombian people but they are the most essential and those which excel.

REFERENCES

UNAD. (2016, June 23). Defining language and culture. Retrieved from datateca.unad.edu.co: http://datateca.unad.edu.co/contenidos/551036/Defining_Language_and_culture_Unit_1.pdf

Vacation on San Andres Island

My last vacations were in San Andres Island. I went to this interesting land with my mom and sister. San Andres is hot, so we had to wear short clothes and use sandals.

Also, the language that native speakers use to talk is a British English, but they shorten many words. For example, for saying “come here” they say “comeba”. Fortunately, they also speak Spanish.

I was in the beach and I could watch some fishes of different sizes and colors with my swimming goggles. I ate some delicious dishes at the restaurant such as breaded fish which I hadn’t eaten it before. Some foods are very expensive including meat, some fruits and vegetables. These are expensive because almost all the food is imported from Nicaragua and Costa Rica and very little is bought from Colombia.

Also, I walked around the island and I could visit some clothing stores, restaurants and souvenir shops. In these stores, I bought a t-shirt and some small souvenirs for the refrigerator. Also, I had the opportunity to taste some typical drinks of the island.

We took a tour around the island by bus in which a person explained us some important things about San Andres such as its history and the places that we were going to visit. The first place was La Cueva de Morgan. Morgan was a pirate who died in the ocean and his body was covered by choral.  The cave was where Morgan hid his treasures.

The next place to visit was West View Restaurant. This was near the sea, then we could enter to this place and use the diving board, the water slide and we could feed fishes with bread. They were of different colors. The cost to enter there was 3.000 pesos per person.

Finally, we went to the Hoyo Soplador. This is in the south end. There was a hole in which air goes up. People tried to take photos, but they had to wait much time. Also, in this place my sister found a crab. But, unfortunately this was dead.

The next day, we went to visit the cays, they are small islands. The first was Johnny cay. Here we saw some iguanas on the palm tree and on the bushes. My mom played Frisbee with other people on the beach, and my sister and I went to swim in the sea, that was very deep. We stayed there for 3 hours.

Then, we took the boat and went to Haynes cay. Here we had lunch, it was very delicious. Also, we visited the aquarium; we had the opportunity to see a starfish, a stingray and many sea urchins. We were there for 2 hours. Then, we took the boat and returned to San Andres, specifically to Lord Pierre Hotel. In these places is not permitted to throw garbage and take home any natural animals. Finally, last day I spent time with my family walking around the beach, I was very happy.