UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

English for Teaching English for International Purposes

Instructor: Tamara Warhol, Ph.D.

Student: Joel Loor Ponce

Date: June 8th, 2012.

Post: Consider the context in which you plan to teach English (type of students, region, and type of school). What do you think you will need to know to help your students learn? Why?

Teaching English in Ecuador has been a hard task for the empirical way the processes have been carried out. Educational authorities, through the times, have intended to give some alternatives to solve this problem, especially in Public Education, making agreements with English language nations. A good example of this was the arrangement between British Council of UK and Ecuador Government with the CRADLE Project. This commitment permitted to have an English Educational System based in Ecuadorian reality, but according to many professors and students it is now obsolete because it does not embrace international requirements.

Considering Ecuador is a multicultural and multiethnic country and English need to be taught based in international standards, it is necessary to make new researches in each region to know the real necessities of the students and teachers regarding to the English language teaching learning process; it is also recommendable to figure out if the sceneries where the procedure is been carried out has the required facilities to teach this language properly. Once this diagnosis is established, it is possible to run out a plan of improvements to create a proper environment to develop the academic process. This systematical and evidenced research will permit to know real necessities and projections and assure successful results.

With these results, it will be easier to set up the right methodological strategies to motivate students and attract their attention toward a significant and permanent learning.  Finally, it is important to remember that is essential to plan according to students’ interests and necessities because it is the only way they feel committed to have a better world in the future.