In this stage of our learning process as future English teachers I believe it is important to ask ourselves how do we recognize that our students are learning a new language? maybe it will seem that the obvious answer to this questions will be test. But as you all know and the chapter from Genesee and Upshur suggest there are several ways to recogize that (observation, portfolios, conferences, dialogue journals, interviews and questionnaires) I will like to discuss with you all when have you felt that your students have learn something and share it with us. I am sure to a certain point that you have felt it in any moment and maybe we can find something new.
I am appealing to the fact that we all have been and still are learners and we have felt happy when we had learn something new and there is this satisfaction on our face of "I did it", so the point here it is to cath those moments and write them down. Maybe this is not the best example but the other day I was teaching the difference betwen this and that with one of my students and I was doing it with some worksheets where there were some examples with drawings some near some far, but she was not getting the idea as I had expected, so I was some how anxious and started thinking how could I explain to her. So, I took two objects from her home and left one near her and the other quite far. then I called the near one this and the farthest that and do the same with all posible objects near and far. Suddenly she got the idea and start doing the same with some jumping included. That's how I knew she had understood it.
