Meaningful English Lessons

I have been always interested in building a new class scheme based on the student and the teacher essential emotional needs. We, as human beings, need to get motivated for every single aspect of the life and academic studies are not the exception. In response, we have created different solutions and resources to get students’ attention, but all the resources we use or we create are not enough. They just motivate a part of students’ emotions and later they do not work well anymore. Being aware of those facts, I decided to look for a way to establish a connection between motivation and teaching practices, new schemes where both teacher and students develop a strong, meaningful environment for learning and teaching. In this occasion, I will be briefly explaining the first steps for developing meaningful English lessons, and the challenges for this practice.  Meaningful English Lessons Based on my practices and researches, a meaningful English lesson includes emotions exci...

The Success of an English Lesson       The success of an English lesson will lay on how meaningful it is for the students. This fact has led teachers all around the world to create different ways to catch students’ interests so they can achieve the communicative skills in English. There are different ways in which these motivational practices can be done.         On my own experience, I have tried by using music, literature and art. Using one of these three at the time or one by one I have experienced how they all provoke different emotions on every single student and the whole group.  Music, literature and art deal with emotions encode in the written, oral and symbolic language that evoke similar emotions on the person. Emotions come before the language and it is the language that translates emotions into written or oral discourses. When a student or a whole class have experience the connection between the art input  and the...