domingo, 31 de agosto de 2008

Correcting some mistakes


While I was reading Andrea’s blog I could realize that she has a lot of interesting things to share. Her writing is attractive, but there are many mistakes that she definitely could improve after realizing about them. Her posts are characterized by spelling mistakes which are constantly repeated such as profetional instead of professional, or carrers instead of careers. There are a lot of punctuation mistakes and many long sentences. But the reader can understand almost everything she wants to say. Capital letters, wrong tense and word order are some others mistakes also.

Felipe’s posts are really good, but he definitely could improve them if he chooses the correct tense and change the word order. He use to write as he writes in Spanish, for example when he says: “Well, I find the English is very difficult for me”. Here he wants to say that he thinks that English is difficult for him. I think it is a current mistake on Chilean English learners. There are some sentences that I really couldn’t understand, such as “The big most classmate speaking to English good, my sister study English”. Finally the current mistakes that we can find in his writing are missing words, wrong tense and word order.

miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2008

Being helpful...


I really think that the idea of giving some feedback to other students is very challenging for us, especially for me. I like the idea of being helpful for somebody else... it makes me feel good.
We need to have this oportunity to find and correct other's mistakes, because we as future teachers will do it all the time with our own students.
I would like that at the end of this semester, the students from U. de chile could say that they improved a lot their writing in English and that we were very helpful for them.