Consulting reference resources to help in lesson preparation - UNIT 23

What I learned about this unit is that in teachers’ life the use of different kinds of resources is essential because with those they can prepare a good class. Let's start by saying that reference resources are a good option for teachers at the moment of planning a lesson since those contain information about language and teaching. Moreover, it is very important to know where to find relevant reference resources such as: dictionaries or grammar books with meaningful information that will help teachers in their class.

Furthermore, there are many reference resources that will help teachers to explain the use of grammatical structures to their students and grammar books are part of those sources. We also have resources that will help us to know the meaning of words that are diffcult to understand such us monolingual and bilingual dictionaries since these are really necessary because learners would realize about the difference between many words as well as collocations, synonyms or antonyms. Given that, the use of all these sources will make teachers raise their language awareness about how language works.

Finally, I will apply all the knowledge gained about this unit at the moment of preparing a class since in this way, I would anticipate learners’ problems and the most important is that the information I will give to my students will be real and well explained because I looked for meaningful and good reference resources.

Bibliography

•         Library.illinois.edu,. (2016). Retrieved 16 January 2016, from http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/howdoi/use_reference_sources.pdf
•   YouTube,. (2016). Reference Resources. Retrieved 16 January 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCHQMdq1d0