Use of digital resources for promoting listening comprehension in a state school
Use of digital resources for promoting listening comprehension in a state school
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Pereira : Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
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2014
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In this classroom project, we aimed at promoting the listening comprehension skill of first grade students from a public primary school located in Pereira; during this process, we had to face different challenges related to behavioral issues, students’ bad attitude towards the main skill to be developed, slight exposure to the target language, creation and adaptation of materials appropriate for learners profile, detection of those classroom management strategies which better fitted students’ difficulties, etc.
Despite the fact that the classroom project had theoretical support from previous courses we had taken, we had to modify and adapt many aspects of the theories studied in order to teach as effective as possible in the specific group assigned to us.
The challenges presented during the implementation contributed to make us aware of our strengths as teachers, i.e., our ability for finding a flexible design of material that allowed us to recycle it for different classes and teaching topics, our dedication and motivation that drove us to explore and follow theoretical support for the activities we wanted to present in class in order to minimize errors and finally, the fact that we were able to provide varied and rich input to the students despite the difficulties in finding materials and resources appropriate for such young age.