TEACHING CAREERS

Reflective Statement

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Reflective Statement4

Professions and Professionalism5

Learning From Experience, Reflection and Reflective Writing6

Making Effective Presentations7

Selection Interviews8

References10

Research Report and Reflective Statement

Introduction

In this developing world, one has to make a decision which makes an individual worthy. The competition for survival is growing fast and hard. The theory of survival of the fittest seems to be true. People who do not decide their aim of life, left alone with their failure. I do not want to be a useless piece in this world of progress and thus choose to pursue career in teaching, after graduate from the UEL (University of east London). The career is as rewarding as it is self-satisfying.

The influence of the age factor in second language acquisition is an area that has received great attention in language acquisition studies. Studies performed in natural contexts of acquisition indicates that although older children do better in the early stages of acquiring a second language, Younger children just reaching and even surpassing the highest. However, despite popular belief, in most studies in formal contexts in which the second language is learned through education, has observed no differences between children who have begun to acquire the second language at different ages.

In studies conducted for many years in which it was not considered the introduction of foreign languages from kindergarten through education but primary has been observed that children who have had fewer years of schooling achieved very soon the level of children who began their second language instruction in early and have had more years of education (Della Valle, 2002). However, these studies have some methodological problems because they performance was measured in the second language after the children had begun different ages share their classes with children who had started later. However, in subsequent studies which have controlled these factors has been observed that younger children show a level of proficiency in English, having lower received the same hours of education than older children.

The research group "Research in Applied Linguistics Ingles (REAL) University of east London (UEL) has been conducting an investigation in which analyze the linguistic and psychosocial development of English language acquisition at different ages (Cohn, 2008). The investigation involved three groups of students in a school in which Euskara is the language since childhood education. In this project, students had been divided into three groups: first group of students began learning English at age four, students in the second group began to learn English at age eight when implemented the reform and the third group began to learn English at age eleven. The characteristics of the centre which conducts research allow us to comparisons between different age groups controlling other educational variables and contextual (Sexton, 1996).

Today more than ever, the concept of leadership takes effect as an indissoluble part of the development of culture that is growing in each of the organizations in which man expresses, under new symbols and manifestations, the state of society in which they ...