English lab learning English with Danny
Hi guys welcome to learning english With Danny I am Danny López. I come from Cali, colombia the word capital of salsa. I am a very commitm...
Hi guys welcome to learning english With Danny I am Danny López. I come from Cali, colombia the word capital of salsa. I am a very commitm...
Hi Danny,
ResponderEliminarThanks for sharing your ideas about the article. I agree with you about including multimodal resources in the regular pedagogical practices. In my opinion, the use of technology boosts the interaction with the foreign language. It means that learning English as a foreign language may be hard in the sense, we do not have contact with the language in a daily basis. However, technology is just breaking barriers. It allows people to be in contact with the language when, how and where they prefer. Also, technology provides the opportunity to experience the language emotionally, culturally, and socially.
Additionally, you commented about the role students took during the implementations, you mentioned that the best part was they were active in their learning process, they were doing different projects as collages, visiting a museum, and creating a comic strip with a purpose. It is very illustrative the term you used environment as a tool, I consider that most of the projects were making students used topics, places, and things which have somehow a meaning for them, and those things are part of their daily practices. Thus, I consider that is something I need to find the way to include in my English classes, connecting the language with the real life not only the grammar topic but many different aspects of the language using multimodality, different semiotic resources.
Yuliana.
Thank you Danny and Yuliana for these valuable comments. I like that the paper made Danny think about the relevance of different semiotic resources in communication such as nonverbal elements. These are elements that have been disregarded in language classrooms generally because they cannot be measured. However, they are part of communication and we deserving students if we teach them a version of language and communications that is merely linguistic. I love that say that we can amplify students' voices if we identify their ideological positions. This is central though not very considered in education because the idea has been to provide content to students, not to derive content from them. I also think that your understanding of engagement adds to the concept. Definitely, creating a positive environment between students and the teacher and student-student contributes to their engagement. We need to go beyond the cognitive engagement. Human cognition is distributed is touches upon the cognitive, the emotional, the social, the cultural and the technological.Good job!
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