UNIVERSITY OF VALLE

FACULTY OF SCIENCE OF LANGUAGES

FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING DEGREE

PROFESSOR: SOL COLMENARES

LEARNER: GINA MARCELA VILLAFAÑE GRANDA

THEME: WRITING PROJECT SECOND DRAFT

Students of earlier semesters of foreign languages course don’t have enough pedagogical competences to face an effective educational practice.

Foreign Languages Students are enrolled through a substantial exam which demands some basic skills to get in the University; it encloses some abilities students might have to initiate the career, as to build unknown grammatical constructions up and organize them as coherent statements; even recognize, understand and apply English abilities in order to handle them in a specific context, everything with the purpose of verifying beginners should be admitted to an advanced education. However those skills drive students to make their debut inside of a classroom starting career but without the adequate pedagogical training.

In one hand, foreign languages beginners start teaching, most of the time, without a training in pedagogical components mainly in (Foreign Language, linguistics bases, didactic, pedagogy, researches, etc). It’s seen that a juicy quantity of foreign languages students feel confidence of speaking other language and think they are able to face a group of students. However, the educational practice requires a specialized grounding, even more that a career can hand on; as an example of that we have the identification of skills, competences and abilities a student posses and how to take an advantage of them to enhance his learning process which a trainee, at the beginning of a career, doesn't cover. Besides it’s possible they feel limited on counteract deficiencies presented in their public, and methodology implemented becomes useless. For those reasons once a committed teacher knows the different kinds of strategies people must experiment and study inside a classroom to improve the process of learning a second language, the result will be significant.

The process of teaching languages involves advance schooling, owing to the existence of a substantial variety of teachers, who transform the educational experience and evolve the doctrine, but there are others who just follow the parochial method and become in archaic mummies providing and providing concepts. According to those two categories we can talk about the different types of teachers; some of them transmit what they know and give as a duty what they don’t know; others have the knowledge, the methodology and illustrate techniques, and finally teachers who present to their public fresh methodologies, creative approaches and they are aware of the interests of their learners changing their attitude toward a second language. This preview group is, in my opinion, the ideal pattern of an instructor.

On the other hand, some institutions let students of earlier semesters from Foreign Languages courses start teaching with a low-payment. The ability of knowing a second language let students to teach about it, and schools or institutions make a profitable deal paying less what they deserve because they don’t have a certification to demand more. In conclusion, some of those prefer a person who has a well-speaking-aptitude in a second language than a graduated one.

There is another fact inside of the Foreign Languages field, and it’s that learners hurtle toward teaching practices in order to get work experience, because once the career ends they can access easily to a labor market and their resume becomes attractive to achieve excellent payments in addition to be admitted in ideal jobs. As a result, students from initial semesters find the teaching practice a way to apply their knowledge with a real public, remain all the aspects inherent to a second language and at the same time achieve experience to face a demanding market.

To sum up, I would say the experience of being trainer as a trainee can limit the teaching practice because doesn't exist a plenty construction of a professor that knows everything about his learners and the methods to guide them toward an outstanding learning. Moreover because a teacher has to be skilled of dealing with any kind of learner trying to be the most important agent of culture and encouraging them to feel comfortable with the second language.