Effective English Teaching: Pedagogical Tenets, Multiple Intelligences & Language Development

Pedagogical Tenets to Promote English in the Classroom

  1. Active Methodology: Engaging students through active participation.
  2. Using Realia: Incorporating real-life objects and materials.
  3. Comprehensive Approach: Addressing all aspects of language learning.
  4. Setting Routines: Establishing consistent classroom procedures.
  5. Short and Varied Activities: Keeping lessons dynamic and engaging.
  6. Promote Communicative Activities: Encouraging interaction and communication.

Multiple Intelligences

  1. Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence:
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Mastering English Tenses: Examples and Usage

Where do you come (come) from? Are you American?

The sentence is asking about the person’s place of origin, which is a general fact or habitual action.

It is usually dry here at this time of the year doesn’t rain (not / rain) much.

The sentence describes a general situation or a fact that is true in general.

Water boils (boil) at 100 degrees Celsius.

The sentence states a scientific fact or a general truth.

Look at that man over there! What is he doing (he / do)?

The sentence refers to an action happening

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Key Competences: Acquisition and Learning in Language

Key Competences in Language Acquisition

What is a Key Competence?

(Deseco, 2003) Key competences represent a transferable, multifunctional package of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that all individuals need for personal fulfillment and development, inclusion, and employment.

  1. Knowledge: conocimiento
    1. Skill: habilidad
    2. Attitude: actitud

European Key Competences

  • Communication in the mother tongue
  • Communication in a foreign language
  • Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology
  • Digital
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Learning Theories: Brain, Memory, Styles, and Intelligences

New Learning Theories

New theories must be integrated because every class is different, and so every child is different:

  1. Everyone has an extraordinary learning potential. Our brain learns quickly and naturally.
  2. The best atmosphere is multi-sensorial, stress-free, non-input, and varied.
  3. Our paraconscious is activated through suggestion.
  4. Listening and comprehension are introduced before oral production.
  5. Movement is essential to learning.
  6. Good teachers are born, not made.

The Brain

Neocortex: Cognitive thought.

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Comparing Approaches to Language Instruction

Language Teaching Methods: A Comparison

Grammar Translation (GT)

  • Theoretical Foundation: Classical assumptions about education as a “discipline”; learning a foreign language is the mark of educated persons.
  • Goals: Vocabulary memorization, grammar rules, translation of passages, reading proficiency.
  • Learner-Teacher Roles: Teacher as controller.
  • Typical Activities: Explaining rules, memorizing vocabulary, translating reading passages.
  • Strengths: Reading proficiency, familiarity with the written form of
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Brain-Based Learning: Theories and Strategies

Two New Theories

New theories must be integrated because every class is different, and so every child is different:

  • Everyone has an extraordinary learning potential. Our brain learns quickly and naturally.
  • The best atmosphere is multi-sensorial, stress-free, with no input, and varied.
  • Our paraconscious is activated through suggestion.
  • Listening and comprehension are introduced before oral production.
  • Movement is essential in order to learn.
  • Good teachers are born, not made.

The Brain

  • Neocortex: Cognitive
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