_______ In
this text, I refer to my experience
teaching already for 8 semesters
in University Malaya, Kuala
Lumpur, putting together the
experience I am having here,
the characterization of my students,
of the place, of the society,
and also using my previous experience
in other different countries,
in order to improve myself every
day, to became a better Portuguese
lecturer and, therefore, being
able to motivate my students.
This will increase their interest
being in my classroom and also
lead to much better results.
_______ I
cannot dissociate my self from
my origins, my countries (Portugal
and Mozambique), my influences,
the way I was raised by my parents,
and the experiences I have experienced
all my life, which I tried to
use, always, to learn something
new, to became a better person
and a better teacher. Because
teaching, is my passion, mostly
teaching Portuguese as a foreign
language.
_______ In
my classes, and teaching Portuguese
as an optional language, I emphasize
mostly the communication, trying
a communicative approach. In
order to do that, I use culture
marks, new greetings forms (compared
to the ones we see in Asia),
forms of addressing people,
promoting dialogue in all classes.
So, I have to give them, in
a very simple way, the basics
of my language, the grammar,
the new phonetic (some sounds
totally new).
_______ Like
I tell them, learning a new
language, is almost like playing
a puzzle (where we have to look
at the shapes of all little
pieces). Here, he have to look
at the words, the meanings we
have already learned (semantic),
and combine it with the very
simples rules we know, in order
to form a sentence, in order
to communicate.
_______ Because
Communication, this is important
for me, because speaking and
being able to say what we have
to say (in a correct way), helps
us to be understood, and this
can help solving a lot of troubles,
in our schools, societies, countries,
in the world.
_______ We
have a proverb “A falar
é que a gente se entende!”.
That is, exactly, my point!
