Student 3

Ledy Yohana Pinzón

LANGUAGE

The language indicates a common feature to express their experiences and communicate them to others by using symbols, signs and recorded by the sense organs sounds. The human uses a complex language that expresses sound sequences and graphic signs. It is a set of sounds, symbols, gestures or signs through which ones, the humans or animals can communicate. This is the communication that occurs between two or more persons through verbal language that can be spoken, written, heard and read, or through nonverbal language, such as gestures, imitations and movements.

Language is as complex as simple at the same time because it include many structures complex like grammar, semantics or syntax but it is also easy when a baby use it, so too it´s include the communication process as essence of the humans. Language is a tool of human knowledge. All this is thanks to man's need to convey an idea, a thought, words, news; humans have the ability to use all the senses to communicate like gestures, diverse sounds and graphic signs as written symbols to express needs or feelings. Instead the animals communicate through sounds or body signals.

LEARNING 

Learning is a conscious change in our mental structure caused by the new information to apply in certain situations, is an individual act and change can be permanent or temporary in some cases and when it can produce significant changes in behavior. It is closely related to the concept of teaching as its complement. It is to know how is or can do it something ,through experience of something that could be seen in routine as values, or when someone teaches us or through the practice or studying something as professions or jobs. The role of learning styles within the fields of language teaching and learning has been a matter of interest in literature. For instance, maintain that the difference in cognitive learning styles needs to be taken into serious consideration as one of the factors toward a successful student’s learning autonomously. Acquiring knowledge of a theme with the study, experience, or instruction and also is the result of practice, Learning is a change in behavior. It is vital for humans, since it allows us intellectually adapt to the environment in which we live through a behavior modification.

TEACHING

The teaching in education is very important and complex, requiring that teachers are prepared to work as counselors, trainers, advisers do research with various tasks and goals, is helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions.

For teaching is necessary that the student is willing to acquiring of retention of information conscious. For my part when I think or speak about teaching, I’m usually thinking of what needs to be communicated and how can we explain it. Teaching is the complement of learning is aimed at facilitating the learning process includes knowing how students learn, and this means more dedication and commitment by the teacher. It is a conscious act planned and organized also requires the application of methods, techniques and strategies to achieve meaningful learning achievements.

DEFINITIONS AND RESTATEMENT OF VIGOTSKY´S THEORY

Speaking of constructivism, in this sense the theory of Vigotsky gives the teacher a facilitator considered essential role in the development of mental structures in the student to be able to build more complex learning. Constructivism according to the Lev Vigotsky has its contributions to the education system in two phases:

1. The explanation provided for the creation, production and reproduction of knowledge and processes.

2. Enrich with new approaches, educational concepts and to apply them to different areas of education.

This makes the practice of teaching intends to be more active and recognized as facilitator and mediator for obtaining the knowledge, skills and abilities developed by the student. Constructivism is a learning theory that is based on the assumption that human beings construct their own conception of reality and the world in which they live. Each of us generates its own knowledge, its own rules and mental models that give sense and meaning to our experiences and actions. Learning, said simply, is the process of adjusting our mental structures to interpret and interact with the environment. From this perspective, learning becomes the search for sense and meaning construction. It is therefore a process of construction and generation, not to memorize and repeat information.

Examples:

• When going to teach a new subject, knowing the previous knowledge of students in relation to new learning content. 

• Ask meaningful content and functional. 

• When working in groups, keep in mind that all students have different learning rhythms and you have to know they distribute so that together help themselves.

• Representing an affordable challenge by the student, allowing you to create zones of proximal development to intervene.

• Develop a positive, motivating attitude towards new learning.

• Encourage self-esteem and self-concept so that students feel that it is worth your effort