Today I’d like to tell you a bit about myself. When I finished school I decided I did not know what to do. So I took a year off and worked to save money. Later I entered translation because I liked languages. I did English and German but right in the middle of it, there was a chance to travel to Germany and work there. So I did. When I got back to Chile I fell into teaching by chance. Later I got my teaching degree.
I think teachers are a great contribution to society but only if they have a vocation. If not, they may be great researchers or academics, but not teachers. I feel a teacher needs to be alert and attentive to what is happening in the classroom in the whole sense of the word. They also need a lot of patience & knowledge in their area of study. A teacher needs constant training because the world changes, students change, and so does methodology.
I think one of my favorite subjects at Uni was phonetics. I loved the idea of studying & recognizing the English sounds and also to contrast them with the Spanish sounds. I also enjoyed pragmatics. The future of teachers looks more relevant all the time. I think we need to keep up with technology among other things because we will need to be more and more updated to connect with students.
One professional I admire in my area of study is Rod Ellis. He is very well known in the area of second language acquisition. He has published a lot of books & I love the way he writes. He has got a very clear way to express his ideas and they make a lot of sense to me.
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-Why are you studying this career?
- How do professionals in your area contribute to society?
- What tools will a professional in your area need to have in the future?
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I love the way the you see the sounds of a lenguage. Talk is a humman process wich is different in every place of the word and full of diferent cultures.
ResponderEliminarIs important and beautiful look around and fall in love of the humman sounds, I already made it with french and portuguese... I'm inspired to day jaja :)
I like the profession the teacher, is a very nice work. It need very vocation and patience. Is a excelent story, thanks for share whith us
ResponderEliminarI love to learn languages. Now I'm learn mapudungun too :)
ResponderEliminarI love to learn languages too. It was one of my options when I wasn't sure about what study.
ResponderEliminarI think the same way about how teachers need to have vocation and how they contribute to society. Chile doesn't understand the important of it
ResponderEliminarI really like the way that you speak about your career. I can feel your vocation and the love you feel for your profession.
ResponderEliminarMy bro is studying to be an English teacher too, but he only speaks bad things about this career.
I'm impress how the phonetics in the English and Spanish it's very important to use in the future. The teacher it's a undervalue professional because need the patience and comunicate to the student's how we need to make a conscious person.
ResponderEliminarI think too teachers are a contribution to society if they have a vocation, and I love learn new languages:)
ResponderEliminarWow! Know three languages is amazing thing, especially when you travel other countries.
ResponderEliminarI’ll like to be a teacher; it was an option for me. I love this profession, because you can build the base of a person and nourish the mind of the students. This role is very important, and I like the hard work of an educator. So proud of all educators!
ResponderEliminarI appreciate when the teachers has the interest in their students and improve the methodolgy. I'm sure you are a good teacher.
ResponderEliminarI love the way in that understands this profession. I think that without vocation you can not practice because is a career that need that the teacher go specifying and flourish constantly with the idea of improve the teaching and transmit this to the students
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