In two weeks I will start teaching an elementary Spanish class in my university and I'm very nervous!! I've taught Spanish before, but it was in very different scenarios: two little rich kids in Spain going to a British college, African immigrants in Spain, and one-on-one mentoring. What scares me even more is that I've been there, I've been a college freshman taking a foreign language class just to fulfill a requirement... and it was horrible!! I had two different French professors, both equally bad, that would just sit and lecture off the book for 2 hours. 2 years of French and didn't learn a thing!
I now have an amazing Italian professor that has me speaking and thinking in italiano after just one semester. I see that my Italian professor is way more engaged than my previous foreign language instructors and I'm actually having fun learning the language! I know that everybody has a different learning style, and I would really like to learn different teaching methods. I want my students to leave my class speaking and thinking in SPANISH!!!!
So, the whole purpose of this post is to ask you for advice:
Have you taken a foreign language class? if so, was it a good class or a bad class? why? what activities did you professor use? or what needed improvement?
Any response will be greatly appreciated ;)
MJ
I now have an amazing Italian professor that has me speaking and thinking in italiano after just one semester. I see that my Italian professor is way more engaged than my previous foreign language instructors and I'm actually having fun learning the language! I know that everybody has a different learning style, and I would really like to learn different teaching methods. I want my students to leave my class speaking and thinking in SPANISH!!!!
So, the whole purpose of this post is to ask you for advice:
Have you taken a foreign language class? if so, was it a good class or a bad class? why? what activities did you professor use? or what needed improvement?
Any response will be greatly appreciated ;)
MJ
