Conclusions

Being a teacher is rewarding for me because it has helped me grow as a person. It has helped me to learn to distinguish the different thoughts and to be able to discern between the good and the bad, taking advantage of each experience to improve my work.

I believe that I have advanced a lot in this pedagogical experience because it makes my mind look for resources to be able to realize a meaningful class. With these classes I have improved my listening and speaking, as well as reading and writing. But for me the most important are listening and speaking because they have been the most difficult in all my learning a new language. Listening to me was complicated because I did not understand many words and valuable information is lost. I have learned to express myself better. With the students I must be sure of what is being talked about. When a teacher doubts what he is saying, he loses credibility with his students. The security of speaking is what attracts students to continue with the learning process.

In teaching we must be committed to what we do. This vocation should not be taken by discarding or by obligation because we will not pay to value the work and we can fall into the error of being mediocre. I am not good at writing. My ideas are difficult to express but with effort and dedication I have been able to carry out the meetings. My students expressed their gratitude because my way of working motivates them to follow their process.

When we talk about learning a language different from the mother language, it does not matter if it is English, French, Mandarin, etc. it should not be centred only on grammar and orthographic rules. These are important but to a certain extent they are boring if they are used in all classes. In my teaching values, a new language must begin to be taught by listening and speaking because that is what children do, then they learn to read and write after.

A class can be very boring or very interesting because of the way we create it. An interesting way is to use different topics and ask different questions about the proposed item. This makes the knowledge of the students put to the test and they feel the need to find the right vocabulary to answer the different questions.

My advice to future teachers of speaking online is to use interesting topics and common for your students. Grammar is important but it does not give much emphasis to classes and create an interesting environment for students.

By Didier Sanjuan Torres

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