First and Second Language Acquisition and learning

 TASK 1: ESSAY WRITING a. The main concepts related to language acquisition and learning. Human beings have always sought to communicate, and from the earliest age they do so through their own language (babbling, crying, laughing), until they begin to acquire the mother tongue. That's when they acquire the tools they need to communicate effectively. Clearly, over the years the way language is acquired has to see the change in thinking. This is because, first of all, we are immersed in a society with specific cultural peculiarities, and all this is generating changes in our way of conceiving language. In this essay I will reflect on some concepts related to the acquisition of language and how it keeps changing, evolving and reforming throughout the age of the human being and how the teaching process intervenes with this process. Initially, we must understand that the language is a system of symbols that works to communicate with each other, being a system it must be encoded since

I think it's important to consider learning styles. Initially, as future teachers we must understand that our students will each have different needs and also each comes from different contexts and experiences.  we cannot think that our students have all the same experiences and that they therefore learn the same, this is why there are different methodologies and didactics for teaching.   below I present my lesson plan for the fourth grade, using the themes of the parts of the house and the prepositions Click here to access:  lesson plan  

  https://view.genial.ly/5fa0c4732354a40d03798a0b/presentation-genially-sin-titulo The critical commentary I will make from what colleague Lendys Naudith Osorio commented on, in which the hypothesis of language acquisition coincides considered that she makes an excellent example from her experience from school in which she says that initially in learning English you do not have a first contact how it is made with the mother tongue. I will buy it with my commentary on the first point because in my case I considered that many of the teachers did not have enough basis or knowledge to teach English. while it is easy to say that all teachers have a pedagogy to teach, we must keep in mind that it is also dependent on the knowledge you have on a subject. therefore, being teachers who do not master the language or who are not native to it, it is very difficult that they can use the right methodology at the time of teaching. it is important to emphasize in turn that the companion talked about

In the next presentation you will find the main aspects about constructivism as a school of thought and Vygotsky’s philosophy in my own words. https://prezi.com/-m24ykvrkzwl/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

 This blog is a space designed for the publication of conceptualization and reflection activities on teaching and learning in students. besides discussing about the different teaching strategies and methodologies. My name is Kelly Johanna Castillo and I am a BA student in English as a Foreign Language at UNAD.

 This is the mind map made from the topics in Unit 1 and reflecting on the definition of language, Learning and teaching.