my routine at work

As I have already told you, I teach English and related subjects at Unochapecó, which is a university of Chapecó, city located in the West of the State of Santa Catarina. At the university, we work mostly from 1.30 to 10.30P.M. with a break from 5.30 to 7.00 P.M. In the afternoon, I don´t teach I spend the time preparing classes, correcting students tasks, doing research. I´m also preparing an extension course on reading comprehension strategies for people who want to read texts in their professional field. So I also share my time tutoring English practice students.

At night, except on Mondays, I teach English II and V, Pesquisa em Letras and Estágio. On some Saturdays, I teach at the Graduation and also another subject at a specialization course. As you can see, most of the nights are busy.

Blogs

At http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7006.pdf you can find a text called Seven things you should know about blogs, which deals with ways of using this fantastic tool in the foreign language classroom. It´s very nice because it points experiences of a professor relating how learners can improve their writing capacities using blogs and become more independent.

www.teachertube.com

Through Proed - an English oral and writing production Course, offered at distance - I got to the www.teachertube.com, more specifically to the presentation web 2.0 and language learning, which is very interesting ad instructive because it deals with language learning process in the 21st century. Graham shows the challenge of language teaching through technology and the danger of not considering it as a fact. Go there and see it. It´s really worth watching!

being a language teacher

My name is Liane and I´ve been teaching English since 1995. I graduated in 1993 at UFSM in Portuguese and English and in 1994 I went to PUCRS where I did my masters course. I don´t have preferences in teaching, relating levels or age because there is always something you can learn and share with your students at any age or level. I have already tried teaching English at private schools, public ones and franchaising as Yázigi. Nowadays I teach at university, English Language for students who want to be English teachers and also ESP for computing students. I really enjoy languages and teaching them is my life besides being a daughter, a wife and mainly a mother of two wonderful kids.