Beliefs

Beliefs about English

For me English is as important as any other language in the world. It is a language which represents a culture, a way of life, thinking and acting from a specific group of people. However, this language represents nowadays a broader culture because English has evolved as mean of making money and acquiring or sharing knowledge with the rest of the world. The relevance of this language over others is due to the big impact The USA has on the economic, scientific and military world. That is why this language has been spared over the world not only has a way to know or acquire a culture but as compulsory discipline for this globalized and capitalized world if you want to succeed as a professional. As result of all these events, I am teaching English mainly and not any other language. Nevertheless, English, as any other language, for me is just a mean to share something. In my case that would be knowledge.

Beliefs about learning

For me Learning is a complex and difficult process to explain which involves a series of events and people’s beliefs. This is said because any real learning requires the interaction with the context and other people in order to validate that experience. In other words, learning is living itself because the experience we get from others and our context through our life is the first step towards learning. However, that interaction with other people brings the biggest struggle for learning from our experience, to ask ourselves “why”. In this way we can confirm what we feel and think or modify our assumptions. From this confrontation between experience and thinking, learning is bringing about. That is why, this same process needs to be replicated in our classrooms where the interaction of people based on experiences and knowledge has to be done in order to create learning without imposing it.      

Beliefs about teaching

For me teaching is personal process we conduct in order to share something we know with others. However, this process has to be based on principles and some structures with the purpose of leading someone to discover and validate that knowledge. This process has to end up in a self-discovery of the true rather than imposed. Also, Teaching depends on the teachers’ qualities and objectives because every person has their own perception about the world and knowledge. That is why teaching has to be a process of sharing ideas with the regard of concluding or meeting a collective true based on evidence.

 Beliefs about language teaching  

For me language teaching is a very important profession because it allows teachers to share how important the tools we use for communication are. This profession allows students to learn about how the language they use work. Besides through teaching languages, teachers are able not only to teach how to use the language correctly in its written or oral form but to know the world. This is said because through this art, teachers can related all kind of knowledge, practices and situations where humans being are involved in. in this way the scope of this profession gets bigger and gives the teachers the freedom to play with language in order to teach and show the world with the aim of using the language correctly. As a result, learners have the possibility to see that leaning a language is much more than language rules but a way to express, share and get knowledge from all over the world.