Language teachers in Chile are poorly prepared for many reasons. One of them is because ther is not enough tools to evaluate their level of English here in Chile, and everything is centralized in Santiago, so everytime a teacher wants to tak a quick course or evaluation needs to travel and for people from regions sometimes is not posible.
In public schools mostly, english teachers are those who got the english degree after working as headteachers and sometimes the mention of english are taken on the distance, eventhough is essencial to learn english pressencial classes.
Most of them have never been abroad, in an english speaking country, which makes a lot difference, because with a short period abbroad a preffesional is able to get the acent and understand the ir culture to transmit it to their students later.
About the use of the english language among english teachers and inside the classroom, I think it is poor and very basic; only the 50% percent of them have fluency and good pronunciation, so with that kind of teachers is almost impossible to get good results among students.
It is also difficult to make a full spokenenglish class because most of the high school student do not show real interest in learning when the are not understanding.There fore eng. classes must be more dinamic, using the different types of approaches and theories of teaching to find the right to get most of the student`s attention.
Finnaly, I support that is good idea to offer retirement to those old english teachers who have not updated their knowledges about teaching (new strategies), it is urgently important to replace them for others who really are better prepared and be able to evolutionate with the times.
lunes, 9 de julio de 2007
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