sábado, 18 de agosto de 2007
4- GENERAL INTEREST
3- BASIC APPROACH
In his country he has been considered a pioneer in teaching tecniques that aim mainly to create a relaxed, informal and lively atmosphere in the classroom as it is the use of American TV video viewing ( sit coms, soaps, news , etc) and also the use of classroom video recordings to show the student`s performance and improvement in .
he language ( 1983)
Things have evolved and in the last few years, the use of computers have taken over and opened an incredible world of opportunities to the new generation learners.
Nowadays, everything deals with applying all the innovative techniques, sometimes quite heterodox, but like the chef who mixes different ingredients and creates the most marvelous dish , he applies the conventional and non- conventional approach , the well known teaching rules toghether with what has never been experimented before, giving the student the chance of a quick improvement
sábado, 11 de agosto de 2007
2- PRESENTATION
Carlos Lopez Reyes has been an English teacher as a second language since 1980. He graduated from the bi-national English Institute (Alianza Uruguay-USA) in Montevideo , Uruguay. He took a Summer Intitute course in San Francisco State University in the specific areas of methodology ( John Fanslow, " Breaking Rules")
( H.Douglas Brown "Principles of lenguage Learning an Teaching") and pronounciation ( Rita Wong " English Pronounciation").
His working experience started in the bi-national institute and the Central Bank of Uruguay where he organized the English department from 1980 to 1993. Since 1993 on, he has been preparing students for the international exams (TOEFL and others ) specializing mainly in medicine English and that of other professions
