Blog 6: English Language Challenges

Hi everyone, I hope you had a good long weekend :) 


Today is your last blog post! Congratulations you made it hahaha! So today you are going to talk about your experience learning English at university and the use of blogs.

Please, please be honest so we can know how to improve as teachers and as an English Program.


During the course, I tried to promote the use of English 100% of the time and I also made sure to practice the four skills: listening, writing, reading, and speaking. 

Regarding the content of the class, as you noticed, we always saw things that had important social or political content. This is because for me it is important to show students a different reality and hopefully so you can realize that changing reality is not only possible, but necessary.

We read various writers like Edwidge Danticat, Christian Campbell,  and Michelle Cliff. I hope you enjoyed reading them.

An important point I want to make is that English is not just USA or England. That's why in class we read texts from Jamaica or Barbados where English is spoken.


Remember that practice makes perfect and therefore it is very important that you continue practicing English outside of class. There are many ways to do this: listening to music in English, watching movies and series in English with subtitles in English, and reading in English.







> What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? What about the use of blogs?
> What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
> Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?

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- Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts and teacher's blog.
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  1. Valentina Sotelo22 de junio de 2022 a las 13:58

    Hi teacher! I really like that you show us different social and political realities, and not just focus on USA or England, reading differents writters with differents perspectives, strong perspectives of their own realities.

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  2. Francisca22 de junio de 2022 a las 14:08

    Hi teacher i think reading all these writters was really interesting and a special way to learn english not just focussing in grammar, and also complementing with al those nteresting subjects and social contents

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  3. Vicente PeñayLillo22 de junio de 2022 a las 14:08

    I really liked the way to learn English in this program, read authors of different places of the world, and watch interviews of famous writers and singers was a good method to learn a new language.

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  4. Jimena Rosales22 de junio de 2022 a las 14:16

    Hi teacher! I really enjoy your classes and the dinamic of the classes, and I like that you show the different political and social realities

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  5. Anónimo22 de junio de 2022 a las 14:16

    Thank Benjamin for all the blogs and stuff, it has been fun and rewarding :)

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  6. Nicanor Espinoza Ramírez22 de junio de 2022 a las 14:17

    Hi teacher, it's been always welcome and thankful a social and political perspective of the classes we have, to me is no sense to learn and share knowledge without a intention of make this world better and go outside of the hegemonic views, so i'm very glad for that.

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  7. Cristina E22 de junio de 2022 a las 14:26

    Hi teacher. The fact that we read texts out from USA or England susprised me. I always have the doubt that how was English from other countries.. I wonder why they are poorly consider in the most of class programs that I have known.

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  8. Ayleen Segura22 de junio de 2022 a las 14:43

    Hi teacher! Thank you for your classes, I really could saw the practice of the four skills in a funny and interesting way. Also, I think that it was very important -and I really loved- that we could have socialpolitical content there :)

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  9. valentina astorga22 de junio de 2022 a las 20:02

    Hi teacher!, I really liked that the classes had social or political content, I found it very interesting.

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  10. Belén Romero23 de junio de 2022 a las 11:09

    Hi teacher!!! Thanks for the English classes, without a doubt it was a good semester, I have a hard time with English, but with this class I was able to resume my practice. Thanks for the last tip, I will start to use English more in my daily life

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  11. Victoria Fuentes23 de junio de 2022 a las 15:15

    Hi teacher! Thank you very much for the classes, it was one of my favorites! My favorite part was the political and social content, the texts and speak in front of my classmates!

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  12. maria jesus vicencio23 de junio de 2022 a las 19:44

    Hi Teacher! I really enjoyed this class, it helped a lot with my English and it was really fun to practice the language constantly. I also really liked the content that you selected to watch and read for the activities! c:

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  13. Aiden Mardones23 de junio de 2022 a las 20:43

    Hi teacher! Thanks for being there and for teaching us. It was a very good experience for me, and I very grateful for having you as teacher

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  14. Iván González1 de julio de 2022 a las 8:11

    Hi teacher! i loved the classes of english and i learned a lot. I liked the things that we talked in classes like the reality of another countries that speak english, or the conversation topics (i would say the famous characters but would be a lie hahaha), I am very thankful to had you as a teacher

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