English Test

This work was made by Juanita and I. It's a quiz for students with a B1 level of English. You will find 30 items in which each one has different type of answers.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W5yLH5m3VH2mdGIDZBrNXBB6sid7U1wE1owwe4XWBvc

For me, this work was very hard to develop, because I had no idea how to use "formularios" and  I couldn't done some activities the way I wanted to. And it was even more difficult because it was the first time I do a test with an special tool like this. Even though, we tried to do the best.

Communicative Competence Video

This video that I made is a little summary of what I understood of Communicative Competence. In this video I give definitions and differences between Communicative and Linguistic Competence; as well as how Communicative Competence is formed.

Communicative Competence is the learner's ability to understand and use the language appropriately in real contexts, and Linguistic Competence is the learner's ability to create accurate sentences in the second language. Inside Communicative Competence,  we can see that there are five stages that differences between beginner, medium and advanced speakers. This stages are: accuracy, fluency, complexity, appropriacy and capacity; I make a brief description of what these terms are and how to use them. 

I found this project very hard make it done because I was so shy of recording my own self, and in some cases I forgot what to say, -this because I was very nervous- but I have the knowledge, it's only that everything changes when I'm in front of the camera. With all this I tried to do my best.

Communicative Competence

The next image below is a concept map of what Communicative Competence is. You will now see a brief summary of what communicative competence is and how it is performed.

First of all, Communicative competence is the ability that we have to understand and use the second language in social, school, etc contexts. 

In the first part I decided write how communicative areas contribute to communicative competence and a little definition of how each one of these ones work. Second, I put how do we achieve communicative competence, in other words, how it's made of. And last, How it's used in terms of teaching(curriculum) and how many types of syllabus they are according to the videos.

My reflection is that I enjoyed doing this work, -even though I found it a bit complicated at the beginning- because it helped me to understand how can I achieve a good level of communicative competence, and it made me realize that as a future teacher, first I need to know how to make good use of communicative competence so that I can be able to teach my students, and as me, they can be able to perform in a second language. 

Evaluation Mind Map

The following mind map is about what evaluation is according to the previous classes. 

Evaluation is the systematic process to assess and test students based on criteria and evidence. 

I decided to mention the learning theories because I  according to the method we use to teach, we'll have to evaluate. I stress the difference between assessing and grading, how do we evaluate language, also mention learning and teaching are united and I emphasize in rational and irrational beliefs because sometimes teachers believe their students have learnt everything he has taught. 

This work made me notice the difference between assessing and testing, before this I thought they're were the same, and it made me realize that to teach something, no matter how simple or difficult it is, first, we have to learn how to do it and be good at, if not, how could teach and furthermore, evaluate our students.