The ESP group has started

Dear members,

The ESP group has started. We held our first meeting on Jan 31 at IES Federica Montseny in Burjassot. Below you can find the minutes and dates for next meetings.

Just as a reminder you can join the group through our blog by clicking HERE.

ACTA REUNIÓN GRUPO ESP

31 /01/13

IES Federica Montseny, Burjassot

Los puntos tratados en la reunión del grupo ESP fueron los siguientes:

1. Presentación de los asistentes. Experiencia en ciclos formativos de cada uno, lugares de trabajo y problemas encontrados a la hora de dar clases de lengua extranjera en la formación profesional.

2. Situación actual de los docentes de inglés en la enseñanza de ciclos formativos frente a los especialistas de cada familia que tienen certificado el nivel de idioma exigido para impartir sus clases en inglés.

3. Análisis de los problemas más notorios encontrados en la FP: materiales, clases multinivel, perfil del alumnado, curriculum, inglés específico vs. general…etc.

4. Puesta en común de materiales.

5.Se decide seguir dos líneas de trabajo: Por un lado, trabajar con propuestas que la asociación APAVAC presentará a Consellería relacionadas con mejorar la calidad del inglés en los ciclos y garantizar la presencia de los docentes de inglés en la FP. Por otro, compartir materiales, experiencias, ideas o cualquier información que sea de utilidad para todos aquellos profesores que se encuentran en una situación similar.

6. Calendario de próximas reuniones del grupo ESP: 14 febrero, 7 marzo y 18 abril a las 17:00 en el IES Federica Montseny.

7. La próxima reunión (14 febrero) estará enfocada a compartir materiales, actividades o recursos que los docentes utilizan y hacen los primeros días de clase cuando empiezan en un nuevo ciclo formativo: ideas que ponen el curso en marcha y sirven para conocer al alumnado, introducir la materia y empezar de una manera activa y participativa.

Las Coordinadoras

Seminar on A2 speaking test.

Last Friday 8th February 25 members of APAVAC attended a great seminar on  assessing and testing speaking at A2 level. It was held at IES Luis Vives where LENGUAS VIVAS , which is an official examiner centre of the Cambridge University ESOL Examinations, offered an interesting, surprising and very useful seminar. It was presented by Ximo Espinosa from Lenguas Vivas and  carried out by Richard Dunn  who is at the board of examiners for all the Cambridge examinations.

 INTERESTING to learn about  the method to design the tests which most of us have done and  what items of the speaking were the ones to take into account and which ones were to be discarded. The use of scales to chunk the different aspects of speaking were extremely  USEFUL!!! And finally it was SURPRISING to realise that the test Cambridge University handle,  are far easier than  the ones we are using in our A2 tests......!!!!! Something we all should think about ....

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