miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2016

My favourite area within my profession:

Level 3 - Post 4 (week 6) THEMED POST N° 1: My Favourite are in my Profession.


My area of study is very broad and its scope goes from the very philosophical standpoints of what language is, going through social and cultural issues and expanding up neuro-science, and this is because in teaching, nearly all dimensions of humanity are involved and playing together.

Having said so, and given that I have to select one area of interest, I would choose the area of Applied Linguistics which is the branch of linguistics concerned with practical applications of language studies, for example language teaching, translation, and speech therapy. This branch of linguistics is the practical side of language. As its name suggests, it applies knowledge about language to real-world issues. While it can encompass language teaching overall, it also encourages the teacher to ask questions such as "How can I best connect this language lesson with my students' everyday needs?" and "What are some of the social issues my students face that could affect their learning?"

I believe that the knowledge of Applied Linguistics in my profession is tremendously important because the Teaching of English as a second/foreign language requires a good perception of at least two languages: L1 and L2 if one wants to contrast the characteristics of the two languages, which I believe it to be highly essential in order to visualize the pedagogic extent of one’s teaching in a situation where the target learners face different problems while learning.

If I didn’t know about linguistic theories and about Applied Linguistics as well, I wouldn’t be able  to even realize if my students are learning or not, and to minimize or remove the learning problems of the learners  I oversee. Those are few of the reasons why the aforementioned area of studies is my favourite area of my profession.

5 comentarios:

  1. Very interesting area you choose! I Think that being a teacher is very difficult and require a lot of work and study. There you have to see how can you do better so everyone can understand you. I can't do that. I barely understand myself hahaha
    Have a good day
    see you in class

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  2. Hi, I admire your patience. I haven't this, I don't know, the tolerancy is not my best skill. In fact, be teacher is a profession very hard. You must have very concentration, vocation and especially patience. Teach linguistic? Wow repeat you, I admire you.

    I see you later.

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  3. Wow, I think that must be very difficult choice a favorite area in your profession. I really admire to people who teach, is a very hard thing to do to me, I don't have patience. Even is more hard if we talk about lenguages, other thing that is tricky to me.
    Well, I hope you are ok.
    See you, bye :)!

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  4. I think like journalism, English pedagogy has similar ingredients at the time of thinking about all the sciences included in it, for example, like biology when we think about communication is applied, or psychology to know how people will receive the information.
    Greetings!

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  5. Hi teacher!
    I find your area of ​​interest very important, because good learning depends in part on how the teacher designs his classes, especially when is a foreign language.
    See you in class

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