Key concepts in ELT: a critical focus

This article has an interesting topic, it makes the complex concepts more clear and psychoanalysis more comprensible and introduces an academic way to demonstrate the success of encouraging "noticing" in class through practical activities with language that becomes the input, according to the author. But as a nursery education student, in my opinion, for starter students in the topic it isn't didactic enough, because of the technical language and the specification of the topic. However, for a language teacher is very useful information that sustain their professional skills and aims, so it's an article that can be recommended to teachers focused in language to make them know that their job is essential in the educational area of application, and how to teach efficiently in their classes. In nursery this information can be useful in daily practice, because in preschool children have primary notions of language, and we can focus that theorical learning on a critical learning and cosmovision.

Questions and Reading Task

- What was the last essay/paper you read about?

The last essay I read recently was about thinking the new school, free of discrimination, barriers and guilt, whose causes are many, not only one, not only the physical, psychological, social, racial, cultural, ethnic or sexual limitation or difference. All societies must understand that different people isn't disable, but "normal people" disables that limited person, that is to say, the problem is not the limitation, is the society that sees differences like limitations to access the school, the university or kindergarten, and that problem in most societies is multicausal.

- Why did the teacher recommend it?

For our teacher is important to teach us and recommend interesting papers or essays about this topic of "Pedagogy of Diversity and Social Inclusion" because discrimination has reached worrying situations of xenophobia, homophobia, racism, nazism, and other power relationships that disparage societies, especially the capitalist ones.

- Did you enjoy reading it? Why? Why not?

I enjoyed reading something interesting, critical and with coherent arguments that opens my mind and makes me consider the differences as valuables, of which I can learn and recognize their potential, not their limitation.

- What is something related to your career you would like to read more about? Why?

I would like to study more about child mistreatment and sexual abuse, because is a situation that occurs repeatedly in our environment, so I want to learn how to help children and their families to intervene in the best way.

- How do you usually organize yourself when you have too much to study?

 When I am full of homework to do, I start to prioritize the most urgent tasks or readings (studying for tests, etc), then I choose the longer tasks, and finally the shorter texts or homework. I take my time to do my things and enjoy my free time skating, taking a walk or shopping to clear my mind and not get stressed. Everything has a solution.