Task 1 Language Learning and Teaching: Jefferson David Melo

Learning contents and strategies for language learning

LANGUAGE	LEARNING	TEACHING
After reviewing the readings and researching about language, I understand that it originated from the need of men to establish relationships between them for the purpose of the survival of the human species, in my concept language is the ability of human beings to communicate with others for achieve understanding, through speech, writing or body movements, using signs, signals and sounds with certain meaning.	Learning is when the human being acquires information that is transformed into knowledge and permanently expands it through curiosity to discover what surrounds it and its experience, for the development in its path of life.	Teaching is the exchange of knowledge and experience from one person to another, this in order to learn and know about a particular topic, to find solutions to the different challenges and obstacles that arise in human development, as future teachers we will have the ability to teach, to transmit our acquired knowledge, and it will be a privilege that we must do responsibly.

Constructivism as a school of thought

Constructivism is one of the most representative currents and accepted in recent times of pedagogical thought, the constructivism speaks of the need to provide students with tools that allow them to create their own procedures to solve a problematic situation, which implies that their ideas Modify and keep learning.

In the field of education, one usually compares constructivism with the genetic psychology of Jean Piaget. This is identified as the "emblematic theory" constructivist, however, it's can't avoid the impact of thinking (Piagetiano) in education, the rescue of the student as an active and autonomous learner, in the conception of the anti-authoritarian role of the teacher, In the didactic methodologies by discovery and participatory, in the selection and organization of the curricular content taking into account the cognitive abilities of the students, this is how the constructivism in the educational field proposes a paradigm where the teaching-learning process is perceived and it is carried out as a dynamic, participatory and interactive process of the subject, so that knowledge is an authentic construction operated by the person who learns.

Constructivism also provides the presence of meaningful learning, where learning must be learned in a relevant way, the student must have in their cognitive structure the concepts used, previously formed, so that the new knowledge can be linked to the previous one, in my process teaching - learning in a certain way I have had a relationship with this part of constructivism, with autonomous learning is involved in meaningful learning, when I go to see a specific subject of study, it is necessary to have previous knowledge to understand it in a better way.

Vygotsky’s philosophy and some classroom examples of his theories in action

LEV VYGOTSKY, He talks about the importance of the group in our development, in fact we are social beings, and as such, we are especially attracted to establish relationships with others. The values we are acquiring are the product of exchanges between groups of equals, knowledge is not an object that is passed from one to another, but is something that is built through operations and cognitive skills that are induced in social interaction. Vygotsky points out that the intellectual development of the individual can’t be understood as independent of the social environment in which the person is immersed. For Vygotsky, the development of higher psychological functions occurs first on the social level and then on the individual level.

Educability is something with which we are born something personal that is what allows us to open ourselves to teaching to acquire knowledge that will be put to the test for our good formation in the course of our life, taking into account that we develop depending on the social context where we are, educability is what differentiates us from animals and it is linked to the socio-cultural structures of the human being in any of its stages on which we now have a large amount and variety of knowledge, thanks to the advancement of science that have to do with the human being.

Vygotsky also talks about motivation as an important factor for learning. Motivation is what moves us in one direction and toward a specific goal is the willingness to maintain effort to achieve a goal or achievement, therefore it is a very important factor in the ability to learn. Like the interests, it depends in part on previous successes and failures of the person but also on the fact that the contents offered for learning have logical meaning and are productive.

Although sometimes we lack motivation we can always create a reason to make and strive in the development of our activities, the simple fact of doing things well as well as the benefit and value that we will gain for ourselves is a great impulse to always go forward in our lives.

Vygotsky’s theory applied in the classroom

Socio-cultural theory; Lev Vygotsky establishes the decisive influence of the sociocultural environment on cognitive development. He argued that children develop their learning through social interaction.

As a student and future teacher, this theory can be applied in the classroom creating working groups with our students, and with their parents, Vygotsky believed that you can learn from the peers around us since there will always be someone with more knowledge than another, as adults and with more experience, we can guide our students in their learning process with social interaction, for example the adult transmits the language, the learner learns the language from a very young age because it comes into contact with the culture in which he is developing, the culture is acquired by the environment where we were born and we have developed and is transmitted socially.