English

Learning a language is difficult so it’s necessary to practice a lot. The English at the university doesn´t have that. So for that reason the real input to learn still coming from the student. Another thing is that the classes aren´t as productive as the expected goal. And sometimes the classes could be a little more dynamic, that motivates the student to learn, things like games during blog or classes, or a rule that says “only is allowed to speak in English”. Those were my comments about English IV in the university.

The blogs work is a good idea, it helps the student to improve his abilities, not only the language, also improve the grammar and the vocabulary. But if there aren´t other stimulus sometimes, and it becomes very boring and repetitive, even if the student is talking about different things during the semester.

For my there’re many things to improve in my English, of course, everything is perfectible. For example my grammar isn´t very good, and neither my pronunciation, but at least I can understand and be understood by another person speaking in English.

Outside the English class I don´t speak too much in English, but I use the games and I watch movies with the English voices, and I listen to music in English too, to not to forget about English in my daily life. Sometimes I speak with my girlfriend in English for a while to make things more dynamic, and get off the routine. And few times I used my English to help some lost tourist. 

Changes in programmes

In the history of universities there are always changes in the programme of a career. Actually my career suffered a change recently. From the last year to this one, in my faculty   the directive changed all the programmes of all the careers in the faculty. In my specific career they added some classes, like Chemistry and society, and more maths, now I’m saying that I have from math one to one thousand. And that it isn’t bad, mat is necessary in my career, but they also took out technical English from the obligatory programme, and that worst thing that they did, because technical English is very necessary to work outside the country, or to write papers.

There´re still thing to improve, all the things are perfectible. For example the career duration is too extensive, and it could be a little bit shorter without sacrificing an education of excellence. Another thing that could be improve is the money repartition between different faculties, is known that some faculties has more money to their disposal than other ones, like our faculty. Also the directive should improve in infrastructure, like building another building in an unoccupied building site, or making some roofs on strategic places.  

Taking about teaching methods, our university has the conventional ones, a teacher making a face-to-face class to a group of students, usually accompanied with a computer and a projector device. And seminars with students from higher levels.  A very good thing is that students can go to the teacher´s office and ask him/her any dude.