ENGLISH DIDACTICS I

Hello dear teacher and classmates!! Welcome to another weekly entry. Time flies and I can´t believe we are already in a new register! This time, let me start with a fantastic record of our last class. We did some demo classes as a team. It was very funny to see all the course wearing black as if we had planned it!😅😂 Teacher Orlando divided us into four different groups, I'll introduce mine in a second. And we performed grammar and vocabulary topics as teachers. Let´s get into it and review what each one of us presented to the class! Group 1: Vocabulary - Medical Vocabulary Group number one decided to teach medical vocabulary. I really loved their activities and the topic was especially important since we will most likely be interpreting or translating medical-related things, so I found it very useful.  First of all, they started asking some questions, they showed us some medical stuff and we brainstormed as a class, trying to guess what the right term for the image was. Then, the

 Hello everyone!  Welcome back to the last entry of this register! Today we are going to discuss  what we studied in our last class: Presentation Practice and Production. This are the stages of a class. In the first stage which is presentation, the teacher takes the most time to explain. In this stage, students understand concepts. This stage is mostly for  teachers, they have to be resourceful and do what they have to do to explain and make students understand. They can use replicas, realia, images, among others to teach vocabulary, they sometimes go straight to the point (deductively) or by letting students discover in contexts or practicing conversations  (inductively) in the case of grammatical topics. Then, we have our second stage, which is “Practice”. Students rehearse in this stage. The interaction goes in both ways students-teacher teacher-students but students are the ones practicing, while teachers can be walking around providing just the necessary help and monitoring. We ha

Hi everyone! Welcome back to a new weakly entry. Today I´m going to reviuew a couple of very important things related to the translation and interpreting market, so you can take a seat and get ready for a blog full of useful info!   We began our class with a survey. We helped teacher Brendaly with some senior students who are working on their college thesis project. I was glad we could be part of it, and I was happy I could rehearse sight translation, it had been a while since we last practiced this in our fourth year of the major. I hope to look to their job when they´re done!   Then, we had a visitor in the classroom, we welcomed Regina, a current student of the major who has 20 or more years of experience in the interpreting and translation field. She talked about prices, what to charge, and when to use the different modes of interpreting since many of us are starting to make an income out of the field, so it is important for us to know some important tips, for instance: as professi