GENERAL LINGUISTICS

This poster was designed  in order to exhibit some perceptions about language. And discussed a little bit in groups.  Three questions were asked: how do we study English? What is language? And why do we study English? In the center, an image is representing a person showing from the inside of his mind many exemplifications of languages and around the picture, the different answer to the questions. How do we study language? Practicing – using it into a context- analyzing- 4 abilities What is language? Communication-expressing ideas- gestures- structure- symbols-codes   Why do we study language? To adapt to new cultures- to express ideas- because language is part of everyone’s life- to describe contexts and contents .

RESEARCHING CLASSROOM DISCOURSE Researching classroom discourse can be a good idea for teachers to become active reflective practitioners, become researchers of their own contexts. Classroom discourse can give teachers a great understanding of their environments and ideas about how to improve processes that enhance both, learners and teachers developments. In this chapter three important elememnts are mentioned, the context, data, and interaction. The context is essential, teacher have to understand it, the author argues that teachers researchers, are both, producers and consumers of their research, enhancing understanding of their own contexts is the target, more than generalizing a new one, it leads to developing and effective teaching and learning process. Secondly, is the data, there are a lot of ways for collecting evidence of the practies in the classrooms, but the author suggests that the best way to make evidence based decisions is data. In this part the teachers re...