5. Teaching Languages
Reflection:
Teaching languages was an
activity in which students
had to teach any language,
except for English or
Spanish.
On this activity, students
were working by pairs,
each pair had to take
material
like
charts,
markers, handouts, etc.
Most of students took the
alphabet, the numbers and
greeting vocabulary; they
would make the rest of
students to repeat after
them for example the
numbers, or the letters of
the alphabet. The classes
were very entertaining and
it was noticeable the effort
that teachers were making
at the moment of giving
the class.
Teaching languages was
hard for the students
because most of them, had
to teach a language that
they were not related with,
and it was even harder for
students to try to repeat
words they have never
heard before.
But the important part is
that those classes were
entertaining
and
interesting,
most
of
students were laughing not
from teachers but from
themselves, for not being
able to pronounce in a
correct way some words
(like my case). It was a
good experience because
not only they had to teach
the language, they had to
give the whole class in the
target language, and that
was a challenge.