Since 2007 the year that I entered at the university I have been into many practices at schools from different realities about English and I realized that our teachers are far to be effective in terms of using English as a second language, because schools just use 2 hours per week for English and the level of it is low, I believe that is wrong, because the majority of the teachers teach English as a foreign language not as a second one.
Nowadays, our educational system has made many changes in terms of the language, but there are few schools that apply these changes in their curriculum, that is the case of Escuela Industrial from Valparaiso that changed the old system that they had for a new one with more hours per week and teachers use English all the time during the class, in simple words teachers explain and express all the time using English.
In my personal opinion I think that English must be taught since students are kids from 1st or 2nd year of elementary, because the younger the students are the more they learn. Besides, teachers must use English all the time during the class and motivate kids to improve or investigate how to improve their English.
According to teacher`s role, I have to say that a second language teacher must be an active and motivator one, because students nowadays don`t want to learn or are no interested in learning a second language that`s why we as future teachers need to learn how to motivate students using different techniques in classes. in our system a second language is taught as a said before just as a any subject because teachers in some cases are not interested in going beyond that teach a pair hours a week and correct tests
Wow I didn't know that about the Industrial school had a new curriculum that includes full English classes!. I think that great first of all because is a state-funded school, right?. and what we usually find in this kind of school is that English isn't exposed during the class at all in some cases just a bit but still isnt enough. In my personal opinion is great that school take this kind of initiative because it will be definitely a way of spread the change and to encourage the learning of English in our country. Very interesting Adrian :p.
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