Authentic Language Learning

SMART TEACHERS: Using the Corpus to Teach English as a Foreign Language It has being an interesting topic explained for Mrs.Spallinger who gave us the tool to use authentic text and corpus to create meaningful lessons for EFL classes.She offered the opportunity to open this web page: Corpus.byu.edu/coca/ to identify by ourselves adverbs,adjectives,modals,we can find in a text, written,spoken,in magazines and newspaper.It was really interesting to think as a linguistic teacher to apply all of this new information. She suggested this webpage : https//storycorps.org to Design activities in our plans In my opinion Corpora revolutionize our language teaching in special using authentic materials,and it is a good opportunity to see how computers can facilitate Language learning.As a teacher we can get a general register from fiction stories,academic prose,newspapers,or casual conversations. in my opinion Corpus Linguistics help us to provide a more objective view of language,because we can research about any language patterns lexical structural,léxico grammatical discourse,phonological,morphological,or specific topic like male versus female usage of tag questions for example.As a teacher with the help of a Corpus ,we can create exercises based on real examples:

Authentic Writing Projects 10 reasons to write It Was an excellent class ,Mrs.Brodeur prepared interactive activities for us,and offered activities for Authentic Writing Projects. Now Iam thinking to write abbout a nonwriting topic , it was our homework, I must think about.

PERRYSBURG SCHOOL WELCOME TO BOARD MEETING Perrysburg regular Board Meeting are usually held on the third Monday of themonth. The board president ran the meeting and offer explanation of the schools facts,dscuss the issues ,debate or share opinions and ideas.They gave thanks to Marco´s Pizza owner because he gaveto Perrysbur a donation in a check. We could see a video about Hull Prairie Intermediate School,to explain how is this new school build now, It was an intersting experience to understand more U.S.A,education system. All fellowers got a Coin,that it wasa gift from the Board of Education who said all of us Welcome. Ths coin expresess 50th anniversary of Perrysburg. What does a Family Mean? To close the night "TeKeLa" welcomed us with Mexican Food, Guacamole and Chili was an terrific experience for some fellows, but others love it!

We are far from our own families,and it is imposible not miss them,but from the first moment we have just arrived here,we have felt like a family,because we hava a big great mom, Mrs. Subreenthduth, who has cared us, and supported a lot, feed and gives opportunities to feel like at our home.

Brothers and Sisters,we have a GREAT FAMILY, with brothers and sisters from different culturas,physycal appearance, thoughts, but only with a sense to share, learn, and be together in one common goal.

I am a lucky woman, because I am sharing with a big family from sisters and brothers from dfferent countries.

My ellegant African Borthers and sisters .