Language Learning and Teaching.

DEFINITIONS AND RESTATEMENT OF VYGOTSKY’S THEORY AS IN TASKS 1A AND 1B Linda Burgos: 1.       LEARNING is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught. It can be for students, thanks they are the protagonists or even for teachers, because they are learning at the same time. Through a cognitive, an affective and a physical process to get a successful leaning. 2.       LANGUAGE is the process that consists of the use of words in a structured and conventional way and involves members from a community to interact intelligibly with each other; through vocal, written or gestural symbols developing skills in the people who are retaining the information by study, experience or instruction. 3.       On other hand teaching and learning are very connected. TEACHING is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning...

Julieth Bastidas: 1.       LANGUAGE: The language has relation with the signs and codes that the humans use to communicate with others. In the language is implicit the words and corporal posture; because with this posture we can to explain to the other people the sense of our words. Not is the same say Nice to meet you with a smile in the face that say nice to meet you with a sad or worried or disgusting face. 2.       LEARNING: The learning refers to the process in which we can acquire experiences, information and knowledge this learning usually is through of steps, and for the case of the learning in the academic live this procedure is accompanying by a teacher who guide our way in the process and watch our progress. 3.       TEACHING: The teaching is intimate rationed with the learning in this case are transmitted knowledge about a subject. The students or the learners learning contents relate...

Jeimy Juieth Bonilla:  1.       Language: is a structure communication system is used to communicate thoughts or feelings through the use of system of signs, signals, symbols, sounds in both humans and animals language meets communication needs as human language is embodied in a language that is learned in childhood. 2.       Learning: is the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and skills through the result of the study or experiences in humans, process of change which consists in acquiring, understanding and applying information that we have been transmitted which we adapt to our context or opinion, in the first 3 years of life a person retains, classifies and archives more information this is developed in a social environment 3.       Teaching: is one of the activities carried out during the course of a person's life which consists in passing knowledge to another person, for example, of attitude...

Claudia Patricia Diaz: 1.       The language is a complex system created by man in his quest to satisfy your need to express their feelings, emotions and ideas. This system is composed of several elements, which are interrelated, allowing the man to communicate in different ways with others and is acquired of their environment in a natural way and without effort. 2.       The learning is considered as the process that allows an individual to acquire knowledge, content, information, theories, and can be acquired in two ways: the theoretical or practice. In this process also act very important elements such as cognition and memory, so that is a unique process, as each individual to be different, but also his way of perceiving the environment is different and unique. Why teachers must find innovative strategies and new pedagogical practices to meet the needs of the students. 3.       Closely linked to this pr...

Victoria Gualteros Carvajal: Task 1. A. Language: The term of language has been described for different authors. In my opinion language is the accumulation of symbols, sounds, non-verbal activities, and words that together create something to communicate. Here is where the language takes form because of the need to communicate something. This process is given by a cognitive, an affective and a physical process to fulfill an effectiveness conversation between the people who are interacting. Learning: It is a process in which people are aware to acquire knowledge, behavior or experience. It comes depending on the learner’s expectations of the knowledge. It has also been considered as a change in human’s performance or performance potential. Moreover It is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing. Teaching: This term is quite close to the word learning and is tha...

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