Dilemma
There are some bilingual schools that teach most of their subjects in English. Should a Mathematics teacher learn English or should an English teacher learn Mathematics? Is it fair for the teachers? It's a dilemma that many bilingual schools are going through. Is it better to hire a native speaker who majors in Mathematics? (Mathematics is just an example, it can be Philosophy, Science, Art or the like.) In that sense, Chilean teachers are being set aside from bilingual schools benefitting foreigners.
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ResponderEliminarI think if a non-English speciality teacher would want to learn the idiom for being bilingual,it must to have an incentive,because being a teacher demands a lot of time e.g,planification,test correction and the like,moreover you will have more that one course so think that you havge to planificate your subject for the rest of the courses you have,but let's back down to the incentive,if you will not receive a bonus for the English courses that you have in your free time it doesn't worth ,thinkig that you cannot leave your students aside for a course of English.
ResponderEliminarAnswering the second question I think that COULD be far but depending if you receive a bonus or something like that,putting myself in the role of science teacher for example if I will not earn nathing by going to English institutes I wouldn't expend my time in going,I don't want to say that I'm like the average but for a teacher have free time is something good if you have time,because in several opportunities you will have to bring your work as a teacher to your home ,talking about of making planification,test correction and the like.
Answering the third question it could very good the fact of hireing a native speaker who majors in an specific subject but going to the another viewpoint,a full term or semester could be expended in teaching to the native teacher some of spanish,bacause not the whole course will have a good management of the idiom,now the native teacher should be contacted in vacations but let's be realistic,will a person who has worked ten months have the goodwill to teach spanish to the native teacher? as a good chilean I think it's impossible.
Fernando Lazcano A.
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ResponderEliminarIf you ask me, I think that it's very true that is a dilemma, because when i think about it, i think about advantage and disadvantages about being a math-teacher who learns english or being a native speaker of english learning math. Maybe having a native speaker of english would be great in the sence of pronunciation and that you perhaps will learn better but what if this native speaker doesn´t know well math?. If i think about a math-teacher learning english make me think in that probably i'm going to be more aware about his english than math. It's a real dilemma. But thinking about the english school that are here in chile, i believe that would be very good if we have bouth, because it can be reinforce between each teacher. Not all the people is good in everything, it would be better if we could match all the skills. So then we will have an education more complete.
ResponderEliminarDaniela Neira B.
I think that the bilingual schools are a very good option because Chile maybe in some years could become a bilingual country.
ResponderEliminarThis form of education I think is a very good tool for the prestige of some schools, for our country and specially for the students in the sense that they acquire new knowledges, I mean, to acquire knowledges in english instead of spanish that is our mother tongue, of course.
However, to benefit foreigner, isn’t a very good thing, because chilean teachers ARE good and they also have capacities and habilities to teach their subject in a diferent language.
In the other hand, foreigners generally are not real teachers, so the subject could be taught in a wrong way.
I think is too complicate to discuss this type of things, it was a bit difficult to me, because it's not a superficial topic.
I think, If I have to decide between a native speaker and a chilean teacher to teach mathematics or another subject, obviously I will take the first option, but, we as future teachers of English,we always have to consider our career as a real challenger for us, and we have to work very hard to improve it. So in this competitive world we can take many challengers, perhaps we can study another subject and compete to native speakers.
ResponderEliminarIt is an initiative that points to advance with the bilingual education, to promote the English, and to strengthen one more tool for future professional. But if we think we're in a monolingual country, only we will causes more problems for students, because Math -for example- is one of the difficult subjects for children and also one of the principals causes responsible for repetition, abandonment or scholars failure and if you adds a greater degree of difficulty (to complicate the language) easily end up in chaos. I believe that teaching science in a language foreign to the mother tongue difficult problems of communication between students and teachers, who already has large. But on the other hand if the child in your environment has conditions to practise the second language, clearly it is an advantage.
ResponderEliminarIt's a very hard point of view to discuss, but I think that if a teacher is working in a bilingual school and he is teaching mathematics or any other subject, of course he has to know how to teach that class in English. A few time ago, I knew a teacher who works in Nido de Aguila's school in Lo Barnechea's suburb, She told me that teaches sports and she had to learn english because every classes (including sports) are in English. but that is in the case of rich people, because our reality or at least the reality of most of us is absolutely different. In a common school in a poor suburb like San ramon or la Pintana, for example, Think about have all classes in English is something almost impossible.
ResponderEliminarTeachers are able to learn whatever they want, for that reason i see absolutely possible, that an english teacher reads a mathematics book and then, he could do a mathematics class in English, at least an elementary class.
The same for other teachers, that attendant other subjects like chemistry, biology, They are able to learn english, maybe not in a deep way, but in a level that let them teach their classes. That is the case of the sport teacher that I knew.
In case of native speakers of english could make classes in english here in Chile, I think that it's is outstading because students can listen to the real pronunciation of words, but there is a real problem because maybe that teacher could have problems with the way of life of students, the same that students with that kind of teachers, because realities of a stranger are absolutely different from our lifestyle.
As a summry I would say that if a teacher has the opportunity to learn something he has to study and learn it, and a Chilean English teacher is not worst or better than a native speaker that sometimes teaches without knowing rules. A good teacher depends on his level of preaparation and love for to be a teacher.
That's my opinion.
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--Felipe Cerpa--
This is a big dilema, but i have a simple theory about it: all the humanistic classes could be in english such as Language, History, Philosphy, and the science area coulb be maybe in spanish, and about the teachers iI think it woulbe better have for some classes a native speaker like phylosophy or History but for the language area we need a spanish teacher to know how to use the language in both ways.
ResponderEliminarso that would be my oppinion, short and precise.
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I think that a good teacher can be anywere, if you have to take classes to specialize your work it would be better. For me is not a barrier make any subject in english, only you have to want to do it and obviously you have to prepare all that you want to teach to your students.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion chilean teachers don´t have to set aside from bilingual schools, i think that they have to try to stay in this job to demostrate that chilean teachers can do it too.
In my case, I think that the bilingual schools whit native speakers always are the best option, because children learnd and acquire the language more easily.That is the reason whay I believe that chilean teachers havo to work hard to be the best and in the future will able to teach all the subject in English.
ResponderEliminarPaola Fabia
Hi everybody!!
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion I think the bilinguals schools that teach some of its subjects in English is very good for the learners because one of the principal advantages of education undertaken in bilingual schools is that the child is exposed to new cultures and new languages at a young age which is a advantages for them in the future.
Respect to dilemma I think the English teacher should manage themselves in several areas which those could open more field work.
That’s all
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by karen palma
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ResponderEliminarI think that teach subjects in english is a good idea to create bilingual students, but it is a little bit difficult because children do not understand it that well, so it will be difficult for them. Otherwise, it will be great for them, but, it will not for us, because if everybody knows english at school, where are we going to work??
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Damaris Latorre
I think we must try to take into account two important points to understand this point.
ResponderEliminarOn one hand, we have teacher who just teach English and you know the level in the most of school aren’t enough, so that, English teachers are disappoint about that, since, students don’t have the real level in the own mother tongue less in English. Then, one of the reasons perhaps is that our English teachers don’t prepare themselves to improve their degree to be better professional, that is to say, they keep in the time without doing anything due to the educational system that we have at present.
So, we must focus on this problem, the lack of knowledge about the second language in the most of school, thus, firstly they can improve the reality in the education especially in English. That why I think some Directors prefer to hire a native Teachers with good English who manage to carry out into the class in the four features or field to learn English, in other words, reading, writing, listening and speaking. Up to here everything is ok, but my questions are the following; are native teacher a real one or just they are able to speak English fluently? Not all that shine is gold. Moreover, I’m not sure if they know something about our educational design or lesson plan that the most of Chilean teachers make very hard every week or month.
JENI RETAMAL
I consider that is a good idea when in a school everyone Speaks in english but the mathematic teachers and language –communication teachers should speak en Spanish, the literature and the culture of own country would be a contradiction if the language teacher explained it in English and that happens for every culture in the world, its not so difficult to observe that it would be a terrible mistake – for me- I think that the sense of that culture could be affected in that sense but obviously the government must include more hours of English in the educational project, there is a big difference here because the most common subjects have 8 hours a week meanwhile English subject has only 3 hours a weak, if the hour of English would increase the most probably is that the students when finished the high school could speak English better.
ResponderEliminarWe can have an approximation of native speakers but its an exaggeration to teach everything in English as I said before, we can stimulate students to speak in the schoolyard and dedicating more time with this subject.
Katherine Retamal
I disagree with Fernando`s opinion in the sense that everything is possible and sometimes we have to be open minded, specially in this sense, because we always have to be improving in terms of education and some others.
ResponderEliminarFirstly, if we are going to think in a bilingual school we assume that this educational institution have the economic or financial resources necessaries, so on this way we can infer that gives a good education or implies more demands.
In my opinion, we as teachers must be prepared for the actual necessities, so we need to progress or become better in this society because demands innumerable requirements.
Respect to bilingual schools, I think that with our knowledge of english we can learn some other subjects, what I am trying to say is that it is not quite difficult, we can study something of our preference, in my case I could learn some of arts so I can combine this two professions, and be more competitive.
So, as a conclusion instead of hire native speakers we can do this job, because is the same if we go for example to usa and teach them a subject in spanish...
Daniella Carreño C.
in my point of view, this kind of thing it could be possible in our country, because if we think that we can teach in the natives speakers can teach in our country in this way, why not? if we can teach whatever kind of signature in our language in the other countries that can speak in English for example this kind of interchanges that we can help other teacher that has to teach Spanish, so why not ould be that?
ResponderEliminarthat question is really difficult because, I think that we are a global country and we need the english language to get a good job, to travel and so on that´s why is very important that the mathematic teacher can teach in english and the students can take out whith a good command of english but if we think our culture, what do we doing in front of this problem, uor culture is the spanish language and although we would need the english language we can´t forgot our language.
ResponderEliminarAngela Sepúlveda