QUESTIONNAIRE

1. How do you define learning?
Learning is a process in which you use the information around you to make it part of your daily life
2. How do you define teaching?
It is our capacity to influence other people’s learning process sharing your knowledge with them.
3. How do you define language?
I think it is one of the tools we use to communicate with others.
4. What roles are students expected to assume in your classroom?
I want they learn to be researches since my dream is to help them to lean by themselves motivating their curiosity.
5. How do you see your role in the classroom?
I want to be a guide for them and I want to learn with them
6. What are the qualities of a good teacher?
A good teacher has to be responsible, smart, and creative. In the first place, Responsibility is necessary for a good classroom management. In the second place, a teacher needs to have a good grass of what he is teaching and finally, creativity makes classes interesting and let students know that the teacher is not improvising.
7. what kind of interactions occur in your classroom?
I try to implement some games with which my students can interact each other; I like to interact with them asking them different things along the class and I try they share their answers with their classmates in order to check them.
8. What is the most rewarding aspect of teaching for you?
I love when I realize that my students have really leaned something. However, my dream is to awake their curiosity towards the languages learning and help them to be responsible of their learning process.
9. what kind of students do best in your classroom?
Those ones who are interested in learning English and those ones who are responsible
10. what kind of training do you think English language teachers in our context need?
I think it is very important for all of us to learn to deal with difficult situations in a classroom. Moreover, we need to know how we could communicate with our students in order to understand them and help them to deal with their own problems.
11. what kind of support for professional development is there at the place you work or you are familiar with?
Once I could attend to a conference about some tips of how to make our classes interesting wich was organized by the institution. Moreover, we have the opportunity to share with our partners some pieces of advice to deal with difficult situations in the classroom or the way to teach something.
12. what are the best ways to learn a language?
The most important thing is to be motivated to learn the language. Furthermore, it is necessary to be exposed to the language as much as we can and finally, we need to practice a lot.
13. what dialect of English do you think should be taught (American, British, other)?
I think it depends on each one of us. Maybe, some of us are more in contact with American dialect but others prefer the British dialect because it is the place where they want to travel.
14. what changes would you like to make in your own practice?
I would like to have better materials and more time to develop all the activities I want to do with my students.