"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living" (J. Dewey)

Hello dear colleagues,

These are the guidelines for building your body of knowledge in the light of specific competences.

• Check the assigned and suggested readings, your partners' contributions, your class notes and other readings on your own. Also, review the program, contents, schedule and all the generalities for this course, and also the attached files which shapes the conditions for the formats of your TASKS and DRILLS.

• Remember to be responsible, disciplined and curious! All the 'extra-things' you do, you know, will contribute to your own improvement! 

• Good luck colleagues with this enriching, demanding, enjoyable and professionally rewarding work.

This component intends to consolidate the communicative competence (linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic) as integrating element of prospective English teachers’ practice. To consolidate cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies in the English language from a systematic and rigorous exercise of academic writing and preparation for international proficiency and competence tests from a critical-pedagogical dimension. 

[Students] builds the notion of what is good, beginning a critical reflection, from educational and pedagogical frames of reference, in relation to specific contents and knowledge, and guided toward human well-being and life guidance.

[Student] understands the language as a meaning system, cognitive tool, and cohesion and social interaction instrument from an intercultural perspective.

The course, in its on-site modality, will combine theoretical/expository lessons, seminars, and practical lessons geared toward problem solving, cooperative learning and project work. Students’ autonomous work will focus on the promotion of group work spaces that continue the proposals from the seminars and practical sessions.

Assesment and Competences

• Statement of Teaching 

• Critical literature review, Dealing with writer’s block, Plagiarism and copyrights

• International test-taking simulations. Response paper about test-taking experience 

• Reading and Writing, Scientific Education, Practice

• Written texts, Learning about international proficiency/competence tests

• Autonomous work handouts and worksheets