Analysis Of Instituto Comercial Padre Alberto Hurtado
Context
Instituto Comercial Padre Alberto Hurtado (ICPAH) is a technical co-ed school located in the Pedro Aguirre Cerda district. It is part of the Fundación Nacional del Comercio para la Educación (COMEDUC), being the worst ranked school in terms of academic performance within the organization. The institution teaches from 9th to 12th grade, and the student body is divided into 12 classes of 20 to 25 students each. Around 90% of them live in vulnerable conditions.
Throughout the present year, three pre-service English teachers of Universidad Alberto Hurtado (UAH) have attended the school as part of their Experiencia Laboral course. One of the issues they had to address while collaborating with the institution’s academic coordination was …show more content…
By achieving it, we can widen our teaching methods and style, allowing us to make use of different resources. Secondly, it will also help our current students to understand the English we use in classes more easily. Therefore, they could learn the language and be involved in the class without getting frustrated.
Regarding the first reason, students at UAH are taught to communicate in any possible way. Notwithstanding, we do not master the ability to simplify our language yet. Therefore, we are not always aware of how to make our speech more understandable, or which words are more appropriate at this level. Then, by addressing this issue, we could use the results of the present research to acquire a more informed standpoint regarding how to conduct our classes in the future.
As for the second reason, students have agreed on the idea that English classes should be taught in English. Nevertheless, having poor vocabulary or have been seldomly exposed to any input, make the understanding of the language difficult for them. Consequently, it would be beneficial for their learning process if the language used by the teachers allows them to internalize knowledge they actually understand. Once a solid base of knowledge is built, they can use it to expand their English knowledge through communication, autonomously or throughout the class …show more content…
As the school teaches from 9th to 12th grade solely, it faces the situation that many students never had English classes in their previous establishments. And even if some of them did, most of the students did not learn much. Under these circumstances, by the time of their enrollment, it is not unusual that students have no knowledge about the language. Moreover, many students failed to learn English even after years of formal classes in the school. This can be confirmed by the attendance of responsible 12th-graders with good academic performance in the rest of the subjects to the workshops. Thus, it is important for the school’s academic coordination to know if this project and its teaching proposal would be helpful. In this way, they could keep applying it during the subsequent years, even after the current pre-service teachers
Instituto Comercial Padre Alberto Hurtado (ICPAH) is a technical co-ed school located in the Pedro Aguirre Cerda district. It is part of the Fundación Nacional del Comercio para la Educación (COMEDUC), being the worst ranked school in terms of academic performance within the organization. The institution teaches from 9th to 12th grade, and the student body is divided into 12 classes of 20 to 25 students each. Around 90% of them live in vulnerable conditions.
Throughout the present year, three pre-service English teachers of Universidad Alberto Hurtado (UAH) have attended the school as part of their Experiencia Laboral course. One of the issues they had to address while collaborating with the institution’s academic coordination was …show more content…
By achieving it, we can widen our teaching methods and style, allowing us to make use of different resources. Secondly, it will also help our current students to understand the English we use in classes more easily. Therefore, they could learn the language and be involved in the class without getting frustrated.
Regarding the first reason, students at UAH are taught to communicate in any possible way. Notwithstanding, we do not master the ability to simplify our language yet. Therefore, we are not always aware of how to make our speech more understandable, or which words are more appropriate at this level. Then, by addressing this issue, we could use the results of the present research to acquire a more informed standpoint regarding how to conduct our classes in the future.
As for the second reason, students have agreed on the idea that English classes should be taught in English. Nevertheless, having poor vocabulary or have been seldomly exposed to any input, make the understanding of the language difficult for them. Consequently, it would be beneficial for their learning process if the language used by the teachers allows them to internalize knowledge they actually understand. Once a solid base of knowledge is built, they can use it to expand their English knowledge through communication, autonomously or throughout the class …show more content…
As the school teaches from 9th to 12th grade solely, it faces the situation that many students never had English classes in their previous establishments. And even if some of them did, most of the students did not learn much. Under these circumstances, by the time of their enrollment, it is not unusual that students have no knowledge about the language. Moreover, many students failed to learn English even after years of formal classes in the school. This can be confirmed by the attendance of responsible 12th-graders with good academic performance in the rest of the subjects to the workshops. Thus, it is important for the school’s academic coordination to know if this project and its teaching proposal would be helpful. In this way, they could keep applying it during the subsequent years, even after the current pre-service teachers