Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Blog post 3 - Career-related website OR A person or expert in your field that you admire

 This week you have to choose between:   


A career-related website that you enjoy visiting

You have to:
  • provide the link
  • describe the website (sections, features, etc.)
  • say how often you visit the site
  • explain why you like the site.
Word Count: 170
Add comments to 3 of your classmates’ blogs + a comment on your teacher's post



OR

A person or expert in your field that you admire

Say:
  • Who she/he is. (short biography)
  • What she/he has done. (examples of their work)
  • Why you like her/him.
  • Include his/her image
Word Count: 170
Add comments to 3 of your classmates’ blogs + a comment on your teacher's post.


Here is an example of an expert in my field who I admire.

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Zoltán Dörnyei is a professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham. He is originally from Budapest, Hungary.  He has done a lot of interesting research and work on second language acquisition and motivation of the language learner.  He has been quite prolific in publishing over the past few decades. His most famous books are: Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom, Teaching and Researching: Motivation, and Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

I find the topic of motivation in language learning interesting because it combines a bit of my undergraduate studies of Psychology and my career in English language teaching. I found out about Dörnyei when I was studying a course on second language acquisition. As part of the course I wrote a literature review on the use and influence of motivational strategies in the language learning classroom, which later became a presentation that I gave at a conference. I think what I like best about Dörnyei is the way he writes; in that even when he is describing a complicated concept he explains it in a simple way so that most teachers can understand. 

21 comments:

  1. very interesting the union of psychology and teaching

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  2. the theory that this man proposes is very interestin, i consider it a great exponent

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  3. I am very interested in the subject of second language acquisition and the motivation of the language student, it is very difficult for me.

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  4. He looks like he's a great person

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  5. I find very interesting the combination between psychology and teaching.

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  6. He looks a person very interesting!!

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  7. What an interesting author to read, I think what he says is closely related to psychology, which really motivates me to know more about him hahaha

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  8. Is so interesting the way he connects both themes

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  9. I would like to know more of his work! It's interesting!

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  11. he makes a very interesting connection

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  13. I find it very interesting how he manages to connect psychology and teaching a language and, at the same time, be able to explain it in a simple way.

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  14. Zoltán Dörnyei's studies are very interesting!

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  15. I think that teaching and psychology are two areas that complement each other very well when it comes to education.

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  16. Nothing better than a teacher who explains well and clearly!

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  17. the example, about D'rnyei, is very interenting and this activity is very fun

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