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Professional development reflection

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The student wrote a reaction paper summarizing and evaluating different authors on professional development as required for an assignment. They found the task helpful for practicing writing skills. The student valued comparing the perspectives and writing styles of the authors. One author they enjoyed reading was Ur (2002) for her straightforward message on professionalism and use of comparisons. In conclusion, the student expressed that professional development is important for teachers to continuously develop expertise to help students improve their communication skills.

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In this assignment on professional development, we were asked to study different authors and produce a reaction paper with both a summary and an evaluation. I considered this as a very helpful task since unfortunately we did not have many opportunities to practice our writing skills during this semester. Moreover, it undoubtedly reinforced some of the contents we learnt in Methodology I when studying authors as Brown (2001) and introducing others of renown such as Ur (2002) and Taylor (2002). There are two aspects I value the most about this assignment; the first is the chance we had to study the author’s perspective or reflections on this particular matter and the second is the opportunity we had to analyze and compare their writing skills. Firstly, the professional development topic was introduced with a variety of viewpoints which creates a very interesting opportunity to discuss and compare them all even from our own increasing experience and knowledge. Actually, I consider most of the ideas presented by the authors to be quite useful for us as pre-service teachers since they depict our reality in a perfect way. Secondly, I admit I found myself comparing each author’s style with my own, since I tend to concentrate on someone’s technique to communicate in the written form. One of the authors I enjoyed the most reading was Ur (2002) since she was very straightforward with her message on professionalism and made good use of comparisons to clarify the dissimilarities between the concepts mentioned. As to conclude, I have to say I consider professional development as a fundamental aspect we have to embrace in order to teach English as a second language. This because it is a lifelong process that provides us with the expertise required in order to develop our students’ communicative competence. Camila Cuevas A.

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  • 1. In this assignment on professional development, we were asked to study different authors and produce a reaction paper with both a summary and an evaluation. I considered this as a very helpful task since unfortunately we did not have many opportunities to practice our writing skills during this semester. Moreover, it undoubtedly reinforced some of the contents we learnt in Methodology I when studying authors as Brown (2001) and introducing others of renown such as Ur (2002) and Taylor (2002). There are two aspects I value the most about this assignment; the first is the chance we had to study the author’s perspective or reflections on this particular matter and the second is the opportunity we had to analyze and compare their writing skills. Firstly, the professional development topic was introduced with a variety of viewpoints which creates a very interesting opportunity to discuss and compare them all even from our own increasing experience and knowledge. Actually, I consider most of the ideas presented by the authors to be quite useful for us as pre-service teachers since they depict our reality in a perfect way. Secondly, I admit I found myself comparing each author’s style with my own, since I tend to concentrate on someone’s technique to communicate in the written form. One of the authors I enjoyed the most reading was Ur (2002) since she was very straightforward with her message on professionalism and made good use of comparisons to clarify the dissimilarities between the concepts mentioned. As to conclude, I have to say I consider professional development as a fundamental aspect we have to embrace in order to teach English as a second language. This because it is a lifelong process that provides us with the expertise required in order to develop our students’ communicative competence. Camila Cuevas A.