Virtual Portfolio

  What results did you obtain with the development of your proposal and what was its impact?             Now that I rewind and start connecting the dots backward, I realize that Extensive Viewing is something I have been doing for quite a great deal of time now with all of my students without even realizing what was it that I was doing and how important and effective it is as a strategy to aid apprentices to boost their motivation, change their negative attitudes and/or behaviors, broaden their lexicon, and enhance their listening skills. I have always been curious and observant, and I have always paid attention to minimum and even insignificant details (some people might refer to them as such) such as body language, changes in intonation, the swing of moods, facial expressions, among other paralinguistic features which do tell a lot about a person, even more than spoken and written language. Now that I have gained more valua...

On the one hand, the pedagogical mediation is a useful tool to help the actors of education to interpret these experiences and realities. According to Gutiérrez and Prieto (2002: 50), “it is the treatments of contents and ways of expressing the different topics in order to carry out the educational act within the horizon of education perceived as participation, creativity, expressivity, and rationality.” The pedagogical mediation allows the educator to teach in a non-orthodox way that is fun for the apprentices, and at the same time they are learning in a significant approach; they are learning not only for their future but also for their whole life. The act of mediating means to be a conciliator between knowledge and the learner. On the other hand, teaching   is the process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and intervening so that they learn particular things, and go beyond the given. Interventions commonly take the form of questioning, listening, giving...