Responsible Learners: Characteristics and Importance
TEXTO 9
What makes a responsible learner? Do they always do their homework and follow the teacher’s instructions? Are they good team workers? Or do they volunteer to clean the blackboard? Are they diligent and obedient? They may not always be like that.
RESPUESTA:
1. The text describes the characteristics of the responsible foreign language learner. It says that such a learner (this sort of learner) should be conscious that his own work is crucial (very important), and that s/he should use all the opportunities s/he has to learn. 2. a) volunteer; b) aspiring ; c) keen on d) expand
3. a) The writer asks if / whether responsible learners volunteer to clean the blackboard and if / whether they are diligent and obedient. b) Perhaps they aren’t always / won’t always be like that. c) A horse can be brought to the water
d) Unless learners are willing to cooperate, learning won’t happen. 4. a) They consider that their own work is very important for the process of learning a language /if they want to learn a language / to learn a language, they are cooperative in class /they are willing to cooperate in class, they control their own progress, they try to use every opportunity to learn. b)The two main elements necessary for learning to happen are input/ opportunities to learn provided by the teacher, and willingness /readiness to use the opportunities on the part of the student. 5. The thing I enjoyed most in my English classes was listening to songs and trying to understand the words. I like music very much, and it is always interesting to know what a song is about. Also, I think this helps you to learn, because you listen to songs lots of times and, if you understand the words, in the end you remember them. Apart from this, I liked it when we had conversation lessons with a young teacher who came from the USA. She told us a lot of things about where she came from, and this was very interesting. The activity I liked least was doing grammar exercises. This was boring, because you had to repeat things which didn’t really have much meaning.