TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Unit: 9 Radical and Critical Pedagogy
The education is a way of learning many forms so it is
consider like a vehicle of transmission information among people who are apprenticeship
of the life. This is can be the key to engage students to learn because learners
are social Individuals who enjoy sharing each other. Therefore, we have to concentrate
the knowledge that students learn in situations where they can realize a useful
purpose of lessons previous taught and then apply to convey information in
their brains. Besides, the learning in classrooms have be in situations where
can work in cooperative tasks enhancing their accurate ideas in broader social
context.
As we have got knowledge, speaking skill is the last of
the four skills of English language acquisition. This skill is as productive skill as
writing skills. Speaking is engaged to produce language in learning
acquisition of the foreign language to make learners to speak focused on
intonation, production, tone of voice, etc.
That´s why we consider we have learned a lot based on
this unit. For example, we learned that in speaking is so important to ask for
clarification, using the most suitable words at the moment that someone doesn’t
understand something. Moreover, we could learn to monitor at the moment of
applying speaking activities in which we could notice how students are doing
the activity and how we can give a feedback to improve this productive skill in the students.
Additionally, we learned based on the mistakes about words and sentence stress
in pronunciation which gave us a clearer idea on how to pronounce words and
sentences. In addition, we noticed that we should paraphrase sentence in order to
give the same meaning in other words. However, we took into consideration that the most
important part in speaking is to speak fluently and naturally according to the
formality and informality applied based on the context employed
and the interaction between two or more people.
To sum up, we know this unit is going to help us as teachers in English teaching language because we really know that learners needs to
implement interactive strategies to produce communication between them with the purpose to convey meaning based on the accuracy through grammar and
vocabulary implemented to become communicative learners of the foreign
language.
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As we know, Listening is one of the four English skills. In this case, listening is as receptive skill as Reading. However, this skill
is connected to speaking skills. Besides, listening supports meaningful sounds in
context in which English learners can hear different situations and adapt them
to their knowledge of the world.
For that reason, we could learn many about this skill
because we noticed that listening skills has the same sub skills like reading.
Besides, this receptive skill is mostly applied to spoken language according to
the process of using listening and the features that it provided to us in our learning and knowledge acquired. Additionally, we focused our learning in the
text types of listening applied in the tone of voice, emotions and feelings of
the speakers at the moment of developing this skill. Moreover, the sub skills which we learned were the same as reading because, we could understand more about
listening for gist and global understanding to get the main idea of the context
employed. Also, we developed listening for detail to find out specific
information. In addition, we were able listen to infer the attitude of the speakers
to find information that is not explicit from the text. Finally, we managed how to identify
functions of the texts and how these were applied appropriately by the
speakers.
To conclude, we have got to admit that this skill is
very challenging for us but we will get on with improving the knowledge of this skill because we expect as teachers to get involved so long listening in teaching for our students
creating interaction partners to become a more social environment in the class.
Given that, this skill is as relevant as the other skills in any language. Making to hear conversations,
dialogs, interviews according to topics of interest of the students.
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Beforehand, we have got to tell that writing is another
of the four skills of English language. However this is a productive skill like
speaking skills. Writing is connected to reading in order to understand short and long
texts that can be written according to the appropriacy employed in the language
but also depends mostly on the text types that are written according to the
formality.
For that reason, we admit that we learned many of this
unit because we could learn how a text can be written according to the layouts
and the organization. Besides, we were able to learn that to write a
text is necessary to write according to the complexity and the accuracy of what we plan to write because a text is composed by sentences and paragraphs in an
appropriate way. Additionally, we understood that writing has
got cohesion and coherence of what is trying out the text and the functions of
each sentence in the text. Moreover, we could use some of the sub skills to
practice writing such as: Brainstorming, drafting, proofreading and
re-drafting. However the most important thing that we ´ve learned was that in
writing is so important a topic sentence to achieve a well- designed writing.
To sum up, we will be able to deal with writing in
teaching because we will show our students how to deal with this skill focused
on the correct organization of some short text according to the topic we are
going to check and finding problems in this skill to find out solutions as soon as
possible to develop this productive skill and help them to improve techniques and writing activies.
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To start checking this unit, it is so relevant to
identify that this skill is a receptive skill as same as listening skills.
Reading is a skill in which it is necessary to understand shorts and long texts focused mainly on the
topics employed and their knowledge of the world.
We have got to say that this unit was very impressive
for us because we learned how to apply reading successfully through some of the
most important sub skills of this unit. For example, we understood how to
predict a text before reading based on pictures and some keywords to identify
what the text was about. Besides, another sub skill was skimming to get the overall
idea of the text. Moreover, we learned how to deduce meaning from context with
no necessity of using a dictionary because we were able to deduce the meaning of some
unknown words to solve exercises. Additionally, we enjoyed learning
scanning to get specific information about the text and solve the exercises
that are part of this skill. For that reason, we know that a text is well-organized
because there is cohesion and coherence focused on the language employed and
how each paragraph is connected with the whole text.
It is clear that, we will deal with this skill in teaching because there are a lot of activities
that can be applied before, during and after reading in the class because it is
relevant that students develop their knowledge of the world through reading
based on intensive and extensive readings mainly with relevant topics that
students could enjoy reading inside and outside of the class.
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To take up checking this unit, it is essential to know
something about functions. Function is the reason and purpose to speak or
produce the foreign language more appropriately depending on the context
employed. These situations can be applied for apologizing, clarifying,
inviting, etc. These contexts are some examples of functions which are used in
real situations with the foreign language.
Primarily, we learned from this unit about how to use
the functions in a more real situation because language is not only speaking. Given that, a function is how we can use our words, sentences and intonation that we can
convey according to our thoughts, feelings, emotions and how these can be applied
into a context. For that reason, the exponent is the person that express an idea using verbal and non-verbal communication. However, we understood that to apply a function appropriately is common to use this based on levels of formality according to
formal (social) and informal (casual) language. A clear example of formal
language is an interview. On the other hand, a clear example of informal
language is a conversation between friends. In this part, it is useful to use
colloquial language according to the appropriacy.
On the whole, in
teaching, we will be able to use most of the time functions because students
need to identify how the language can be used formally or informally according to
the context employed for the benefit to the students to get in touch with
English and cover their necessity of becoming good communicators of the foreign language.
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For this unit it is so important to notice about the
sounds which give more emphasis to pronunciation according to the phonemic
chart of each letter. In this case consonant and vowel sounds of English
language. That´s why this unit is more focused on the spoken use of English
than written use of the foreign language.
For that reason, we were able to learn many about
phonology because this topic is related about distinguishing the sounds of the english alphabet that can be produced by the mouth. On the other hand, letters can be added to words
and change their parts of speech and the pronunciation, too. Besides, another thing that we understood was that
the smallest unit of a sound is called phoneme and how a word can be pronounced
appropriately. Additionally, we could notice the pronunciation of each letter
according to the phonemic chart which can vary the way of speaking. For that reason, there are diphthongs, vowels,consonants, etc. These are employed
for the speaking part of the language. In addition, in the phonemic chart there
are voiced sounds and unvoiced sounds that are pronounced and mispronounced
because of the lack of practicing because it topic is so complex to pay attention. However, voiced and unvoiced sounds are the most important part in phonology.
It is clear that, we as teachers have got to find solutions in teaching of English language in which we will have got to model some of the most common words used in the class and
make our students to listen the intonation and the stress not just for words. It is
also referred to sentences and where it can be placed the main stress and
secondary stress. That´s why, we will have to use activities and strategies to understand clearly unvoiced and voiced sounds that are going to be applied into the class to
give more clarification to the students.
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Firstly, we think, lexis is another relevant part of
the correct use of English because it is connected to grammar and it gives more
emphasis to the meaning through the context. Additionally, lexis is referred to
individual words and sets of words which can give a meaning based on the
appropriate context.
Furthermore, we have learned a lot in this unit but what it caught us the attention was the
sets of words which can give a different meaning because the use of words not
always give a literal meaning. It gives in many times a figurative meaning that
can be found in phrasal verbs, collocations, idioms, etc. However, the use of
these phrases is complex because these sets of words can be used according to
the context employed to give the correct meaning in the use of these words.
Moreover, we were able to learn about chunks that are pieces of language used in written and spoken language. Additionally, we could find information about
false friends that are words that are similar in their speech in both languages but different in their
meaning.
To conclude, we as teachers, we will apply this
knowledge in teaching through the use of many activities which involve
technology, charts and practical examples to explain the use of the most common
phrasal verbs, idioms, false friends and chunks that can be helpful for the whole
class to get in touch with the foreign language.
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Unit 1 : Grammar First of all, we have to admit that grammar is a huge
important part of English because it is focused on combining, organizing words
to create sentences which give a particular meaning according to the contextemployed.
For that reason, we consider we have learned many things
about grammar because this unit is connected to the languageto speak, to listen,
to read, and to write appropriately in the foreign language. In other words,
grammar is put together with the four English language skills (Reading,
writing, listening and speaking. Besides, Grammar is an essential part of the
language in which the teacher is focused on describing the language according
to large forms and uses that are applied from mechanical uses of grammar.
Additionally, we were able to understand the use of prefixesand suffixes which
can give antonyms or changes of the part of speechof a base word related
to verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, etc.
Finally, we will apply this knowledge in a teaching
situation based on strategies such as: charts, work class activities and
handouts to explain about prefixes that can be added to words to create antonym
words. Moreover, we will apply the same strategies with suffixes to change the
part of speech of the most useful words according to the grammatical use to
convey properly meaning focused on the
context employed to provide to the class more knowledge particularly about this
topic which is essential for all of them.
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