PEDAGOGICAL MEDIATION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

 1. What are the challenges you would like to face to become an excellent English language mediator? Mention at least three and discuss a little bit about them.    1) Teachers and research  Since my point of view as languages teacher I consider that research is an important skill we should develop as mediators. It is a useful tool that leads us to the improvement of our practices. One of the problems mentioned in the reading is (is research useful? and if it is, what kind of research should we implement?) I totally agree with that hypothesis, but instead of selecting or classifying just an appropriate one, I would mention that the problem is not to define a researching method but to change the perception of it. As learners and teachers, we are accustomed to perceiving that research is just a requirement for accomplishing a part of our practices and not as a tool that allows us to go beyond in our roles as teachers. So, it is another critical factor that interferes wi...

  VIRTUAL PORTFOLIO   My name is Julian. I am from Tunja, I am 30 years old. I am foreign languages teacher and currently I work coordinating the languages area at an languages institute. I like teaching languages and I hope to learn new perspectives of it in this meaningful mastery. Unit 1 - Phase 1 - Contextualization REFLECTIONS ON "I SUE THE SCHOOL" Link to the document:  https://unadvirtualedu-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/jdochoaar_unadvirtual_edu_co/EWBJK2RqnSRAvQUUxPPTwPABl5T-KsCHWDB9AFGaaNO_qA?e=bNQ1VA I chose to be an educator because since I was a child I felt comfortable with teaching or helping others. I grew up and at school I had some teachers I remember but not because they were good at what they did, on the contrary I could feel they did not enjoy the teaching experience, and I wanted to change that, to avoid other people had the same bad experience I had with them. Besides, being an educator is a huge responsibility because we transform society, we sh...