UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

English for Teaching English for International Purposes

Instructor: Tamara Warhol, Ph.D.

Student: Yury Cevallos Mendoza

Date: June 7th,nce 2012.

Post: Discuss your own experience as a multilingual. What are the challenges of using a language other than your mother tongue? What are the benefits? What do you hope to learn/perfect about your own English language use? What do you hope to learn/perfect about using in a language classroom context?

Teaching English has been a passionate work and experience to me. I enjoy sharing English. with all those who want to learn it. As professional in Tourism, I have had the opportunity to study and learn English as a secondary language, also anothers in a basic level. I have been involved in the English world since I was a student.

Working in Tourism and Hospitality Industry, has let me participate from different cultures, and the entire background obtained gave me the chance to participate in the education of children in Ecuador in schools of the rural zone on my hometown  and like a private teacher.

By using English other than my mother tongue, I have gained a lot of good experiences such as Tourist Guide and  Interpreter, and much more in the world of teaching, the satisfaction of seeing a student speaking English, is really great!

In addition, meeting people from a culture completely apart of yours, make win a lot,

And through them from them, you can ¨ travel¨ all over the world.

Now I am in a process of learning more and more about the use of English… the expectative is increasing day by day because, finishing this preparation, it is compulsory to us to  share all what we have learned.

We must be able to  carry  out new techniques and methodology in order to change the level of English in the public schools of my country.

The satisfaction )=)(/&/(an English teacher in Ecuador, I have had the opportunity to know different cultures related to this universal language and to share with my students how important it is. English in my country is considered a foreign language because a small percentage of the population speaks it fluently. We have had many inconveniences in teaching English due the lack of preparation of teachers, the insufficient hour load in schools, especially in public schools. Nowadays, the panorama is encouraging because the current government is supporting many programs to increase English teaching level.

In this days, education is being developed in global sceneries, reason for what, it is necessary to give English teaching a special treatment where professors and students feel the necessity to learn the language in a permanent and efficient way in order to be globally competitive. 

Learning English is a great opportunity to open world doors because it is the language of science, technology, business, and sports, among others. People from nations like Ecuador, which is considered an underdeveloped country, can have the chance to be immersed in a social, educational and scientific sustained development.

I have the great challenge to improve my English level in order to be a professional that can compete with qualified professors. At the same time I have to recognize I have not had a proper preparation during my school and university studies, for this reason it is been a little difficult to be properly immersed in this program, also because we have not had an intensive preparation like this, but I hope to feel more comfortable ahead.

Active methodological strategies are the keys to be a successful teacher, it does not matter how much English he or she knows. We, as teachers, have to use methods and techniques to motivate and attract students’ attention in order they love English and feel the necessity that it is their passport to be universally successful.