Journal Teaching pragmatics online activity

  8^TH November

 Teaching pragmatics online activity

   This class was about Teaching Pragmatics, the activity was, looking and choosing in the web site one topic or lesson plan about teaching pragmatics in the language classroom in order to later we have to do a presentation.  I liked this activity because at last, we could put into practice all theory we were studying in class, and really we could see how pragmatics is taught in real language learning students.

     We worked as a group; we made groups of three people in order to do the presentation, my partners and me discussed and tried to find an interesting and simple topic for our mini class. In the web site we could find a lot of topics, like: spot the problem, it is about to discuss and raise students’ awareness of pragmatic violations, in the areas of openings, closings, and requests. Another topic was:  Politeness is more than “Please”, which objective is to learn some politeness strategies in English. Finally, we decided to talk about Greetings with a Difference, is about some different ways of greeting people.

        The microteaching was planning thus, first the students make groups of three, and each one has a paper with a dialogue in order to act or do role plays, after they choose a draw with an emotion, the students try and guess the context for each dialogue. Finally we say the conclusions of the topic.

      The importance of this class was the motivation and creativity we used to realized all things we as teachers to be have to take into account at the moment of planning a class, like the age, the English level, the environment, etc. also it was meaningful for me to overcome the face threatening or fears, because soon we have to do practices in schools, and it is important to be self-confidence and creative at the moment we are teaching.