How do you think teachers develop their ideas about teaching?
What sources do you think shape their beliefs and practices?
What do you think is the role of research in improving our understanding of teaching?
Teacher's understanding
Language
Learning
Teaching
What is language?
Langrage operates in a speech community or culture.
Language is essentially human, although possibly not limited to humans.
Language is acquired by all people in much the same way; language and language learning both have universal characteristics.
Your understanging of the components of language determines to a large extent how you teach a languae.
Learning and teaching
Learning is acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instruction.
Teaching is showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand.
Learning is acquisition or getting
Learning is retention of information or skill.
Retention implies storage systems,memory,cognitive organization.
Learning involves active, conscious focus on and acting upon events outside or inside the organism.