Personality factors + Test.

An important part of learn languages are personality factors.

Factors as self-esteem, anxiety, emotional and cognitive state, etc. could be the reason of our learning skills. If we don’t take risks at the moment of facing a situation that requires to talk in English or even in a conversation with friends using the language, our learning and feedback will be slower or null.

It doesn’t matter if you are shy in this case, because if you got an accurate opinion and use correct forms on conversation you will be learning and using your skills too. On the other hand if you are an outgoing person who doesn’t know how to speak well but you try to do it even making mistakes, it will be a great chance to get feedback and improve your English with your partners, teachers or native speakers in some cases.

Myer - Briggs test Results

· moderately expressed extravert 33%

· moderately expressed intuitive personality 50%

· moderately expressed feeling personality 50%

· slightly expressed judging personality 11%

On my opinion, I think the test is a great chance to know a part of yourself or maybe get answers about our personality, but (there’s always a but) we have to consider in tests, that they could or not be effectives or exacts, because people in general are always changing.

In my case, the results above describes pretty much exactly that who i am or better said who I am in this moment of my life.

The construction of a test.

Test.

1.- Do you get bored easily?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually.

2.- Do you consider yourself as an extrovert person?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

3.- Do you prefer open spaces ?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

4.- Do you get excited easily?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

5.- Do you consider yourself as a loyal person?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

6.- Do you like to go out on your free time?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

7.- Do you watch tv often ?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

8.- Do you like to learn useful things?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

9.- Are you afraid of the dark?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

10.- Is it hard to you express your feelings?

_ Yes _ No _ Usually

It was a little bit difficult make a test because it's hard sometimes choose the right question to identify what is the type of character do you want to test.

Communicate it!

Oral english has become a very important part of our lives as people and teachers as well.

Back in the 60's, 70's and even 80's grammar was a fundamental part of teaching and learning english at Chilean college, this was because during this time there weren't any tools or ways to communicate with other countries or even there weren't to many people to practice english with in Chile. Softwares like Messenger or websites like Facebook or even cable tv didn't exist back then. For this reason one of the ways (or maybe the only one) to improve oral english was probably to travel abroad to other countries.

Nowadays technology or better said technological advances makes us easier the understanding and learning of languages, specially english, because we can get more acces to talk to a friend on England with a videoconference software for example, or watch a tv program about other cultures or even with music we can learn searching lyrics about a song on a website and sing it or playing an online videogame with people from other countries. And we can do all of this things without knowing all grammar rules.

On present day i think is not the way how we learn english that matters, the really important thing is the way how we are going to use it (of course an important part to learn and reinforce english is in elementary and in High school ). Because on present day we have easier acces to travel abroad and get a chance to live with people from another countries, learn their culture and communicate with them speaking even if we got a slightly use of grammar.

To finish i would like to say, that our job as teachers is to teach students the best ways to know how to communicate their ideas when the situation requires to talk in english and find the way how to make themselves clear at the moment to express ideas.

- ED

Methodology

1.- What did i understand today?

The methodology is the way in which teaching and learning processes are applied taking into account different aspects. In language teaching, we must take into consideration issues such as: communications, habit formation, social semiotic. as well as also materials, socio-cultural setting, learning process, all these processes are directly connected with the methodology at the time of carrying out activities for teaching.


2.-How is this connected to my future teaching experience?

This is an important part of our future, because as future teachers we have to know how to use the diferent methods to carry out activites to students.

3.- What are the three concepts that i would highlight from this lesson?

Learning Process
Socio Cultural setting
Methods

-ED