My Teaching Philosophy

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The teaching context I have chosen for my work in this class is Spanish. Spanish would

be taught as a foreign language for second and third grade students in an Elementary School in

the United States. However, it is important to point out that there is diversity of cultural

backgrounds, (some students are from India, China, and Korea, etc…) but all of them speak

English. The proficiency level of the target language will be a beginner, though the students have

been already exposed to the target language since they have had Spanish instruction since kinder.

The students will get forty-five minutes of instruction once a week. There will be about sixteen

(16) students in each class. The students’ age would be between 7-9 years old. The language

instruction will be given during their regular school days.

The school will provide the Sonrisas Curriculum to teach Spanish, which comes with a

CD of Spanish songs in relation to the lessons. However, I will have the freedom to bring and

make my own materials depending on the lesson and the students’ reading and writing abilities.

Furthermore, instrumental and integrative motivation may vary among the students, because the

class will not allow students to leave the classroom if they do not like the target language. I will

keep in mind that at this young age students’ likes and dislikes about a certain class may vary

according to the lesson activity or the students’ mood.

In this paper, I will discuss my ideas and beliefs about teaching according to my teaching

context. These ideas and beliefs have been influenced by different factors such as my personal

experience as an English language learner, my past teaching experiences, my personality, values,

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...nd by being well prepared to teach every class with a good attitude. Thus, I

believe it is very important to take into consideration all of the principles mentioned above in

order to help students reach their potential when learning a new language.

References

Gordon, Tatiana. (2007) Teaching Young Children A Second Language. Westport, Connecticut London

Hadley, A. O. (2001). Teaching language in context (3rd ed.). Boston: Heinle and Heinle.

Horwitz, E. K. (2008). Becoming a language teacher: A practical guide to second language learning and teaching. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.

Lightbown, P. M. (2000). Anniversary article: Classroom SLA research and second language teaching. Applied Linguistics, 21, 431-462.

Valdés, G. & Figueroa, R. A. (1994). Bilingualism and Testing: A Special Case of Bias. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

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