What are the benefits of the global simulation in the teaching / learning a language for specific purposes?
global simulation (SG) is an excellent methodological exercise can acquire language skills required to produce functional and streamlined communications in specific professional contexts. The advantages of the SG model are:
- Allows integration of activity in language skills and socio-cultural type communication, while language skills is supported by specific.
- promotes the participatory nature, producing peer-learning situations, cooperative learning, peer learning and learner-teacher learning: the organization facilitates communication networks of various kinds, horizontal and vertical. It is motivating, as they play situations characterized by probability, the adjustment to actual working conditions or socio-professional, etc..
- Exercise both oral and written expression.
- Encourages the functional autonomy of the learner, the spontaneous use of language by students, since, although there is some preparation inevitably arise unforeseen situations or conversations, both in the linguistic and professional. The student feels a fundamental part of the learning process, not a passive recipient, while the method to detect and take advantage of errors in the context of spontaneity, commits the speaker.
- About the classroom to real professional contexts, in an interdisciplinary way, breaking the boundaries of the classroom, promoting empathy with functional communication situations and motivating to the learner.
- The student participates in the planning of activities, tasks and even evaluation.
- Allows the relationship between teacher and students in terms of information / feedback.
- Some real documentation (texts of a technical or professional), creating a simulation that does not lose touch with reality training. Possible to use materials of high technical value in many cases accessible through the Internet, selecting texts, dictionaries and glossaries appropriate to the functional needs of students who enroll in situations similar to those it faces in the future and practice their communication skills related to their actual needs.
- The SG anticipated future professional situations, in situations of exchange among professionals in related branches, or in the context of simulations extrapolated to social or professional practice. Thus, permitting the implementation of the knowledge possessed by their field of expertise and qualifications.
- The SG exceeds the limits of the simple simulation, breaking with his character often broken and sometimes inconsistent: inserts the activities in a context of globalization in which actants interact to achieve the objectives previously agreed-flowing around a predetermined theme.
- The SG is part of the language as an essential factor of verbal communication, and symbolic and instrumental aspects are implicit in any process of socio-professional communication.
Bibliography:
• M. Teresa Cabré: Language Resources in the teaching of specialized languages, "in http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/aeter/conferencias/cabre.htm
• Cabré, MT; Enterría Gomez, J.: Languages \u200b\u200band language teaching specialty. The global simulation. Madrid, Gredos, 2006. Enterría
• Gomez, Josefa: Manual teaching English as a second language. English for specific purposes. Madrid, UNED, s / a.
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