What does the article suggest to you?
It suggests that there is a clear division between theorical English teaching called linguistics and current practical teachers. Linguism is a new wave, most the times for philosophers who introduce new concepts for teaching many times hard to deal with, in the English class; very separated from the school stage where teachers have to deal with schedules, principals, difficult teen-agers and cheap salaries. What ideas would you highlight?
I quote “Study of language acquisition still offers no unique direction in which language pedagogy should go. This does not bode well for a defence against critics who prefer pat solutions. Despite decades of research and a galaxy of publications, we do not know with a confident degree of scientific precision,exactly how languages are learnt. ” (John Wilson “Who needs applied linguism”) This idea from the task is fantastic because it emphasizes the meaning of language acquisition which goes towards an unknown world that is still developing and we are the characters who can bring light to new horizons in this area. What is your opinion about it?
I still don’t have a clear idea about applied linguistics but the main idea shows that this topic is actually under study. It’s interesting how the learning process occurs in your mind and brain and teachers don’t want to know nothing about it according to this paper.
These ideas tell me that we are called to produce innovations in the English classroom. For me it’s great because I’ll be able to improve my teaching skills and therefore my students will take advance of this new knowledge. In your opinion, was this article difficult?
Not at all because it keeps showing that thanks god I took a good decision applying to this Master’s Degree. I feel very excited about the topic and I can’t wait to continue with the learning process. On the contrary, the document is extermly interesting.