Javier Ceballos

Testing and Assessment: Assessment there should be part of any learning process because it helps us to evaluate the students' proficiency. I was not clear about the difference between  assessment and evaluation that is why I used to give more importance to the final grade. I have to give a lot of value to the learning process and to make a lot of emphasis to the formative evaluations. This formative evaluation and the daily work will be the scaffold to build a better English learning process. Testing has its important during the assessment but it can not be the main goal since a test is just a reference of our students' knowledge in the target language. I am going to apply different evaluations which are going to be based on activities that let students the opportunity to built their own knowledge. I also have to observe the process and not only the results because they could be doing a good job during every single task. Assessment, evaluation, and testing work all together i...

Teaching Pronunciation: I think that one of the most difficult skills to acquire is speaking because spanish speakers have a lot of problems with those English sounds that does not exist in Spanish. It is really real specially with the vowels sounds and phonemes. I have been worried about the fact that I am supposed to be the role model in the classroom and my pronunciation there should be as authentic as possible. If I miss pronoun a word in English my students will copy my error and I am not going to be able to correct them. It is necessary to be aware of this situation and try to keep studying all the time. I live in a country where the official language is Spanish and it is difficult to have the same environment as in the USA. I like phonetics and after this experience in the USA I am more motivated to improve my pronunciation. During this class we learned some useful activities to make the pronunciation class more interesting for our students with the use of games and songs....