The problem of illiteracy in latinoamerican people

In Colombia, there are a lot of illiteracy people, specially in low classes who have been affected, being discriminated by some literacy people.Taking into account Eunisa's example in the text. Can you tell a similar anecdote that have you watched or listened related to the topic of illiteracy in the adult people?

In the adult literacy education program there were students who didn't stop viewing themselves as social inferiors. What cultural artifacts could help them reach their goal of literal equality?

8) Artifacts and identities in the Brazilian figured world of literacy

Do you consider that minority groups are discriminated or ridiculed in the Colombian public university because of their patterns of speech and the degree of literacy? Explain your answer.

ACADEMIC TEXT

An academic text is an institutional and educational tool wich can be used either written or oral in different disciplines, it's a well structed text that contains literacy, historical and cultural references that suport its purpose.

CROSSWORD KEY

Across:
-The power to make decisions and to give orders... is
-A serious evaluation that can be negative or positive and constructive.... is a
-when you produce or acquire something..... you
-When something is really good and efficient..... is
- Somebody who is learning in an educational institution... is

Down :
-It's a position or point of view we take when talking about a topic... it's our
-A way you transmit your ideas using your mouth .....
-When you are doing a written work ... you are
-Everything you have in your mind and you have learned......... is your
-Fields of study, branches of knowledge.... are

PERSONAL WRITING PROJECT

TOPIC:
Teacher education
Teacher’s beliefs about bilingualism in the Colombian context: Challenges and realities
AUDIENCE:
Teachers, students and community involved in the second language acquisition in our country
WHY AM I INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC?
First of all, I’m an English teacher, and I’m also and English student, I’ve been in some conferences and a lot of meetings at work, when this topic has been developed, and all I’ve heard at the end of each one is the discussing of the problems we have here in Colombia in our public schools, the teachers are tired of working under conditions unhelpful to acquire a second language, and the worst thing; our kids are not acquiring a second language the government is suppose to help them to do, instead they are just learning some words out of contest and actually that’s too much for millions of children who are saying the alphabet when they rather be playing , eating or sharing some family moments they don’t usually have.
In the other hand, I’ll talk about the context in which I’ve been through during the last three years, teaching children who have the opportunity to study in a bilingual school, learning from native teachers, learning in a real context, learning with all the necessary tools.
I’d like to talk about my personal experience and show how it could be possible to reach the government goal in this other hand way.

Writing is the means though when speech can be transmitted and preserved.

For many years the real and truth Word can be preserved, but the languages change, people speech change and cultural aspects could also change the context of the Words we want to transmit and preserve.
Writing has been a very important and useful tool for man, when writing for example things as simple as a description; we are not only saying some facts but we are drawing a complete scene in which we can make the readers see everything we want them to see in the way we want them to look at it.
Writing is communicating.
We can tell someone near what our ideas are, but when we write we can say our ideas in such a way that everybody even people far away from us can be informed in any place at any time.
The bible is one example of the successful of writing, the way each word has been preserved taking into account the development of the languages and the translation from one language to another ; the main purpose of the context has been preserved and transmitted till today’s day.

PERDONAL WRITING PROJECT

BILINGUALISM IN CALI.

Becoming a bilingual nation is one of the goals the Colombian goverment has since 2.004 in the education field. in order to reach it, the program needs to be part of the projects in each city, specially in the biggest ones. Cali is one of those cities pretending to become bilingual and as it is known the best strategy to do it is through schools, that is why some institutions are taking into account and foccusing on English learning processes. Very important goal, and much more when there is a term to get it; 2.019. But is it that easy?, what are the actions the goverment in going through?, are those actions working?, who is involved in this process?, what do teachers and parents think and suggest to the program?. Even though this is an amazing goal, it is a big challenge in which many aspects must be considered and I really want to get into all the possiblities and the limitations it has.

Bibliography:

palabra maestra. fundacion compartir.

www.palabramaestra.premiocompartiralmaestro.org

EXQUISITE CORPSE

Farenheit 451 is a social protest, since burning books is the strategy those firemen use to control people' minds, because reading is how human beings develop arguments and start being and thinking different, when they are wanted to be normal people undercontrol and easy to manage without any question mark. This film has a cronollogical structure; showing actions and then its consequences in a formal order driving its audience to an easy conmprehension of the facts. It is built by five characters or at least they are the ones who interact the most, they connect their own and almost simple stories to leave a big message. linked to the technology that is just highly advanced, starting with the electric-eyed snake, the mechanical hound, the flamethrowr and the special t.v screen able to interact with people talking, taking into account their own names. all this to consider some relevant topics such as: the relationship between authorities and people; how the first one goes ahead being dominant and subjugating the second, Concept of knowledge; suggesting that life is completely dependent on it, Ignorance, life and death etc. although this movie looks simple at the beggining, after going through it i possible to understand bradbury's criticism style.

Style rules - Style guide

In my studies at Univalle, I've noticed that little attention is given to Style when writing whether in English or French. I'm attaching a link to a style guide, take it into account when writing your academic texts. This is very important when you have to present papers at foreign universities and for national and international publications. It'd be nice if you begin to use style rules from this very English course.

Style Guide
http://dictionary.reference.com/styleguide

FARENHEIT 451 - EXQUISITE CORPSE

THIS STORY SHOW US A FUTURISTE VIEW OF 60'S SCI-FI MOVIES. ALTHOUGH ITS SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE A LITTLE BIT FAKE, SOMETIMES IT HAS SOME REAL PREDICTIONS.

IT TALKS ABOUT A WEAK SOCIETY WHO LET THE GOVERNMENT RULE ALL OF ITS MOVEMENTS AND DECISSIONS. THIS GOVERNMENT DON'T LET PEOPLE READ BECAUSE THEY THINK READING MAKE PEOPLE SUFFER AND HAVE BAD FEELINGS (ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT) SUCH AS SADNESS AND HATE. THE FIREMEN DEPARTMENT IS IN CHARGE OF BURN ALL OF THE BOOKS THEY FIND. THEY ARE CAREFULLY TRAINED TO LOOK FOR BOOKS WHEREVER THEY ARE HIDDEN. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW CREATIVE THE PEOPLE CAN BE, THEY ARE ABLE TO FIND THE BOOKS.

MR. MONTAG, THE MAIN CHARACTER, IS A FIREMAN, WHO HAS GOTTEN A BRIGHT CAREER IN HIS JOB. HE IS HAVING A PROMOTION WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN HIS LIFE BUT ONE DAY HE MEETS A GIRL WHO MAKES HIM CHANGE HIS MIND. HE STARTS READING IN SECRET BUT HIS WIFE, A WEAK MIND WOMAN WHO IS UNABLE OF HAVE HER OWN THOUGHS (IT'S MY OPINION) ACCUSES HIM WITH THE FIREMEN AND HE IS GOING TO BE CAUGHT BUT HE RUNS AWAY.

THE MOVIE SHOWS HOW THE GOVERNMENT, IN A DESPERATE WAY TO SHOW PEOPLE ITS POWER, SAYS THAT MONTAG HAS BEEN CAUGHT ; MEANWHILE HE IS HIDDEN IN A FOREST WITH HIS NEW FRIEND FIGHTING FOR DON'T LET THE WRITTEN TREASURES GO WITH THE FIRE.....

I REALLY LIKE THE SENSE OF THIS MOVIE BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT WE ARE THE OWNERS OF OUR THOUGHS AND WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR THEM. I DIDN'T LIKE THE FAKE SCENE WHEN THE POLICEMEN ARE FLYING OVER THE LAKE LOOKING FOR MONTAG, IT MADE ME LAUGH!!!

FAHRENHEIT 451

Fareheit 451 is a movie that shows us an inexact future moment, when the people of this future society were prohibited to read because according to the government, read makes people unhappy and makes the humanity thinks about many sad and bad thinks they shouldn’t think bout, so no one should realize about many things that had happen all around the world, the government wants to be in charge of everything, taking into account every single person thoughts. Montag; a fire-fighter who used to look for and born books, because it was prohibit to read in that “future moment!” So that’s why Montag decides to change his life and start to think in his own way, following his own thoughts. So in the movie the people was suppose to be as the old Montag who agree with the government doing what he did with books or doing what Montag did at the end of the movie following his own truth, following the truth.

One of the most important themes in this movie, is the fact that shows us somehow the way the goverment and organism in charge of the society want to take advantage of their position and control not only our acts and ways we develop our lives but also the way we think and our thoughts.

The end of the movie shows a way the future men can scape from all this control in the society, but also the way the men can enjoy the freedom in their own minds, following their truth.

Fahrenheit: Exquisite corpse

Actors and Actresses
The main actors are:
• Montag: Oskar Werner
• Julie Christies: Linda (Montag´s wife):
• Clarisse (the women who introduces Montag to the books word)
• Cyril Cusack: the captain
• Anton Diffirng: Fabian
• Jeremy Spencer: a man with the apple

Characters:
They are a stereotype o f the two currents of the society at the period (traditionalism and social movements). On the one hand, Montage (at the beginning), his wife and the firemen represent the followers of traditionalism, and in the other hand, the readers, who are the opponents to the system (people who don’t accept the common). The main characters are: Montage, his wife, the firemen polices and a passive society.

Plot:
The movie represents a whole society which stays in a strange environment where books are forbidden and living unreal world created by the mass Medias and living inside of their TVs. It narrates the life of a fireman official named Montag, who has fallowed and defended the traditional rules of the society against the books (people´s negative conception and stereotype of what writing means -a craziness and madness). At the beginning hi´s a consecrated and awarded persecutor of the readings and readers, but at the end he knows a girl named Clarisse who introduces him in the world of the reading, asks him about reasons for why destroying books and by criticizing the behavior of the TVs viewers. At the end he starts to love books and keeps some of them in his own house. After that, he is denounced by his denounced own wife and discovered by his partners who try to making him changing his position and comportment. He refuses this and finishes being a convict by killing his superior. Finally, he ended as a closed friend of the ex-enemies saving books.

Relationship with the Book
The movie fallows the same structure that the books, but the ending was a little different. Though, they neglected a character who is quite important in the book, setting and place are quite alike our normal ones. So we can reflect on them easily.

Topics
An utopian world, where people are living an imaginary life.
Director´s Style: It is a narration of the human being. He uses the third person. It is science fiction and could be considered as a thought (stream consciousness).

Teachers´ Beliefs about bilingualism in the Colombian context: Challenges and realities

Teachers´ Beliefs about bilingualism in the Colombian context: Challenges and realities
I want to talk about this topic, because it is a factual and current fact that is ready to be approved in Colombia.I want to present which are the most important facts to considering when we like to present a project that can affect or not all the Colombian population.
Most of the countries’ policies have tried working around the globalization. This word has become “naturally” in the sense of being competitive and in relationship with the rest. But these policies of globalization don’t define or consider what the sub-developed countries have to do when they assume it. For example: how the poverty and the socio-economical state can disturb or affect these processes.
Before implanting a system or global methodology, it is needful to search and budget for some facts associated with this, like advantages, disadvantages, benefits, losses and near and distant consequences, etc. Due to it, a lot of sub developed countries have to assume the effects of the bad implantations.
In Colombia for example, we have to hear about laws that are trying to approve the becoming of this country as a bilingual, but it is needful, first at all, we have ask us, if it sound reasonable or not. For example: is Colombia prepared to face the socio-economic and cultural implications, impact or shock. It sound good, for the insertion of a foreign language like the English could represent the access or approach to the technology and communications (information, interaction, mass media, etc.), but it could represent the end of the Colombian culture.
Frame worth: Work Structure
Some topic and and questions
Socio-economic Implication of presenting a bilingual program: benefits and consequencesMain Focuses: Which are the main necessities to consider: people´s mentality and socio-cultural aspects. What do the people have to know about a bilingual program? Which are the basic requirements to implement?Economic aids of the nation: how much money is the government going to invest?Basic tools and materials Leading with Cultural thoughts.

Crossword Puzzle Keys

1. Continuous contact with a discipline
2. Getting good benefits or results for each in investment
3. It is a product facing situation
4. It is to make an image of something
5. People´s point of views
6. Looking for something undiscovered
7. Presenting step by step

8. Something that demands for an answer
9. To capture or catch the speaker's idea
10. Verifying the processes
11. An special words or vocabulary
12. Refuting a formulation with another position and using factual arguments
13. A schoolfellow
14. It is associated with disciplines like music, painting, theater, etc.
15. Creativity is a personal result

WRITING IS THE MEANS THROUGH WHICH SPECIALLY SPEECH IS TRANSMITTED AND PRESERVED

WRITING IS THE MEANS THROUGH WHICH SPECIALLY SPEECH IS TRANSMITTED AND PRESERVED

Even though, there is a big difference between talking and writing, because in oral communications we use some words, phrases and moods, etc., that never are represented in our written context. On the one hand, our orality includes some special elements with a socio-communicative meanings (e.g. gestures, onomatopoeic sound, etc. who represent our disagreements, likes, etc.), which couldn’t be graphically represented, because they carry a subjective representation of our reality. On the other hand, due to the common changes, orality is not endurable because it is continuously suffering variation, due to social context, and for some languages tend to die. In this case, writing appears like a preserver of the culture, because we write in a formal way, it doesn’t matter if it is not a literal transcription of our orality. For example if in our talking we use phrases like wanna or gonna, it has been common that we change for -want to- or -going to- as a way to represent and preserve the formality, and for faciliting a normal comprehension for foreign people who don’t know about theses cultural aspects.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

DOWN:

1.

1.WHAT IS DEVELOPED THROUGH POSITIONING STUDENTS TO WRITE THEIR CRITIQUES FROM A STRONG KNOWLEDGE BASE AND HAVING THEM RESPOND IN WRITING TO THEIR PEERS’ WORK.

2. BOTH CORRECTING EACH OTHER.

3. YOU NEED IT TO PROVE YOU ARE RIGHT ON YOUR CRITIQUES.

4. THE WAY SUGGESTED FOR STUDENTS TO RESPOND TO THEIR PEERS RATHER THAN ORALLY.

ACROSS:

5. DATA WHICH GIVE SOURCES REFERENCES.

6. YOU NEED TO HAVE THIS STRUCTURE IN ORDER TO MAKE CRITIQUES.

7. YOU EXPRESS IT WHEN YOU FIND MISTAKES.

8. YOU GET IT WHEN YOU CORRECT YOUR WRITING BY FOLLOWING YOUR PEER’S COMMENTS

9. THE ESSENCE OF WHAT IS CREATED TO BE RECOGNIZED.

10. THEY MIGHT BE USED TO BUILD ARGUMENTS.

IMPROVING STUDENTS WRITING SKILLS

AUDIENCE:
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS
WHY AM I INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC?
AS A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER I HAVE NOTICED STUDENTS DON'T LIKE WRITING (EVEN US, WHO ARE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS!). SOMETIMES THEY FEEL THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TOOLS TO DO IT WELL BUT IN OTHER CASES, STUDENTS SIMPLY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN WRITING NOR L1 OR L2.
NOWADAYS, TEENAGERS HAVE OTHER INTERESTS SUCH AS MODERN MUSIC AND DANCING OR GOING OUT WITH THEIR FRIENDS, CHATTING AND TEXTING, ETC. THAT'S WHY I HAVE BEEN DOING A RESEARCH IN ORDER TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET THESE INTERESTING TOPICS FOR TEENS AS A TOOL TO MAKE THEM WRITE IN A DYNAMIC WAY WITHOUT LET THEM FEEL THAT THEY ARE DOING A SCHOOL WORK BUT HAVING FUN!

Writing destroys memory and weakens thought

Before writing ever existed, knowledge was transmitted through oral discourse. Teachers gave classes, parents taught their children, and it was all done through spoken language. There was never a problem, people just focused on what they were hearing and tried to commit it to memory. The introduction of writing changed many things, methodology being one of them. From then on ideas were written down and conserved for future use. Knowledge had taken on a material form. This was seen in a negative way by some, arguing that our brains would become lazy and our memories destroyed. While there may be some truth in the aforementioned statement, our brains do not become the slugs that it implies. Furthermore, we can strenghten our knowledge base and have it in our hands and at our disposal at any given time. Reading a text a few times will help us understand and withhold its knowledge in a far more efficient manner than by simply listening to it once or twice. In conclusion, the drawbacks to writing are compensated and surpassed by its advantages.

AN ACADEMIC TEXT

AN ACADEMIC TEXT IS FOCUSED IN A SPECIFIC AREA. IT HAS THEORIES AND PRACTICES. IT IS USED AS A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS, ACCORDING TO THE AREA IT USES WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS RELATED WITH IT.

PWE. BRAINSTORM

TOPIC.
The Montessori method.

AUDIENCE.
Preschool and elementary teachers and, foreign language students.

WHY AM I INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC?
As a preschool teacher I'm very interested to know deeply what the Montessori method is.
I think this topic is really interesting and for us, as foreign languages students it could be enrich our pedagogy competence and also it to be useful for teaching. This is a very related project with my profession, because this method is based in the well use of good materials around you and it takes account the children as a human being and its purpose is that the children learn through senses, and also enjoy the acquisition of their knowledge.
This method maybe could change teachers minds.

CROSS WORD PUZZLE

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D.They way suggested for students to respond to their peers rather than orally.
F. Both correcting each other.
L. What is developed through positioning s.s.to write their critiques from a strong knowledge base and having them respond in writing to their peers work.
N. Data which give references of sources.
Q. What you need to prove you are right when criticizing.

ACROSS

1. The result after correcting comments from peers.
3. The structure you need to have for making critiques.
14. What might be used in order to build arguments.
17. What you express when you supposedly find mistakes.
19. The essence of what is created to be recognized.

Exquisite corpse

Fahrenheit 451is a movie that show us a future society in which all reading matter is forbidden and the fire department's job is to police the citizens who try to keep books in hiding.
One of the main characters is Montag an obedient fireman whose job it is to burn books which are illegal possessions and Clarisse a young school teacher whom Montag meets and plants the first seed of doubt in his mind.
I think the movie has a very well narrative structure because from the very beginning it is showing what it wants to transmit, that is to say that the director showed every scene in an organize way focusing the audience in the central topic.
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an unspecified future time.
I think that the message that the director tries to show us with his futuristic work of fiction is how important books are to humans and how a world without them would be, filled with fear and worry.

MWP- being a second language thinker

As a second language student one the ever main goals since I started was to become a real second language thinker; as I used to say by that time: "to think the way I do in L1"( mother tongue). To reach a level like that assures any learner to succeed in any language skill, because doing that he/ she had created a strong basement which will permit them to use L2 (second language)naturally. But how to create such a level? It seems an easy to answer question, since any unaware learner might think that any learning activity involves a second language thinking process, which is partly true due to the fact that any student is using second language thoughts when they are dealing with an exercise , specially those that requires a second language expression; however many times the answer or second language expression starts being constructed in mother tongue, which retards the process of being a natural second language user. Therefore a more accurate answer requires a more complex process that includes long hours of practicing, furthermore "using"the language in a natural context which forces learners to produce instant responses to add fluency to the conversation they are having, in order to sound likewise natural.

Franklin Alvarez

exquisite corpse

Fahrenheit 451 is a movie that tells us a story about the extinction of the reading practice because of the technology. It shows us how passionate to reading a person can become. Montag and Clarisse, the main characters, hold a love to reading based relationship which leads him to get away from the system he was immersed.
Although the movie was filmed long time ago, it shows a futuristic setting anywhere on earth. The technical aspects of the film are quite influenced by the time it was shot.