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ANUPI Annual Conference at Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo
October 1, 2009 to October 4, 2009
Associación Nacional Universitaria de Profesores de Inglés 7th annual conference
I agree it's hard to focus on Problems in English education, until you do something about the problems in general.
The system of not allowing for a failing grade and therefore providing extra, second extra and special exams for example.
Or the si...
In the state of Oaxaca, we have three major problems in Secundarias and Prepas.
First is in a very short time teachers are required to follow a very rigorous syllabus. Litterally the whole of English grammar in 90 minutes a week for two years. I'v...
I remember those sessions. They were great!
The danger with teaching languages like they do in Mexico and many other countries is that they turn people off to English The students think it is boring and not applicable to their lives. You cant lea...
I agree with you Leigh. I would add that it's also just not any type of practice that will do. Some may stick with a drill-and-practice approach and think this is the practice needed to build proficient users of English. There are different types ...
I personally think that the biggest obstacle is that we treat language learning like any other subject matter at school. What may work fine for history, science etc just doesnt work for languages. Speaking a second language is a skill, not simply ...
I´m curious, what would be the ideal and most practical solution in order to avoid this obstacle in the future? If I understand you correctly, the obstacles are the amount of time teachers have each week with students, and that in Oaxoca, the gove...
Hi everyone.
We are right in the middle of our Curso de actualization y nivelacion for local area high school teachers. As usual I'm enjoying it very much. It's rare that I have such enthusiactic students!
But what has really struck me it that the...
But why does it have to be modernize or stay unchanged? Those are not the only choices, It's not an either / or question.
By the way Gustavo Esteva has done a good bit of writing on this topic and is brilliant, esp. "Grassroots Post-Modernism : Re...
I worked for a short time at Pima Community College in Tucson and they had an interesting setup for teaching writing. It was self access in the sense that student has a set course of assignments to complete more-or-less at their own pace. There w...
Yes, I remember that case well Leigh!
It's my personal that the best education will equip the students to make a lifestyle choice for themselves. Unfortunately, in most of the Mexican public schools rural children will still recieve the message t...
The first question is do they/will they want to be a part of "today's world" when they leave school? Parents have the right to decide for themselves what kind of education they want for their children. Many of the automous communities in Chiapas h...
Ah, Frank has made a great point without even knowing it. What makes you city slickers think TelMex lines are running to rural schools?
Half of the rural secundarias in Oaxaca do not have enough electricity to run the computer labs Chente sent th...
I like http://www.wordnik.com/ It's only English, not bilingaul. Actually more for advanced learners or teachers. It has usage examples from literature and Twitter so we can see the word in real modern use. It has audio, and you can add additonal ...
I've got several of my students using Livemocha. They LOVE it. I'm going to be their friend on there over summer vacation to help them with their writing.
Benjamin,
check out http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ if you haven't already.
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 9:30am on March 7, 2009,
Caryl Coffey said… - Hello Melissa,
I'd love to join. It would be nice to have such a network. Thank you for starting it up.
Caryl Coffey
- At 6:19pm on March 5, 2009,
Leigh Thelmadatter said…
- Hi MELEE! Took me a second to figure out who you were. You might like my newest blog posting, I certainly look forward to your take on it.
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- I'm a teacher at a small public university in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca.
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- Preschool, University, Language Institute, Private Lessons
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- Task-Based Teaching and Learning, Phonetics, Web Technologies, Theory, Linguistics
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- working together with my colleagues
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