As future teachers, we consider essential to use each of the
"skills" for the students to learn a language. We believe that is
necessary to know the four "skills":
For this reason, we have considered interview a primary school education teacher
to tell us her experience and complement our future as a teachers.
- Receptive skills:
- Listening: the ability to receive and interpret oral messages in the communication process. It’s the key to all effective communication.
- Reading: the ability to read text, process it and understand its meaning.
- Productive skills:
- Speaking: an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information.
- Writing: good writing skills allow you to communicate your message with clarity and an easier way to get a larger audience.
Our intervention is in preschool education, we especially focus
on the skills of listening and speaking, although we all work together.
There are different methodologies for teaching English in the classroom:
Communicative Approach, Community Language Learning, Silent Way, The Natural
Approach, but in this case, our interviewee use in their classrooms Total
Physical Response (TPR): The main teaching technique that uses TPR is the use
of the imperative, based on what the child hears when learning their native
language: mainly imperative orders.
It's important that teachers develop creative activities that allow us to motivate all the students.
It's important that teachers develop creative activities that allow us to motivate all the students.