Unit 2: Step 3 - To Follow Guidelines For Designing Teaching Material

Student:

Maria Fernanda Vera Mendoza

Tutor: Cristian Quintero

Course: Materials Design for Virtual Environments

Group: 551021_8

Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD

Bachelor’s Degree in English as a Foreign Language

November 27th, 2020

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When we talk about teaching-learning Spanish as a mother tongue, we must immediately refer to

the concept of a mother tongue known as the first language that a person learns in their first years

of life, which is used to communicate, in this specific case Spanish is our mother tongue.

Through the use of our mother tongue we support the communication processes that appear in

childhood, these processes have a direct connection with our culture, since language identifies

us, is part of our personality, our essence and for this reason it must be preserved and passed on

to future generations. As Colombians we must strive to safeguard our language, developing and

strengthening the teaching-learning processes in all educational centers with a high quality

standard, since early childhood is the basis for a future formation of our mother tongue.

On the other hand, one of the most important strategies to protect and safeguard our mother

tongue is to support, apply and develop all those projects that allow teachers a better preparation,

a more structured knowledge and total responsibility for the teaching processes developed in our

country so that they are fully complied with and their results are very successful.

As students in training and future teachers we must recognize the importance of studying and

analyzing in depth the level of importance of our mother tongue since if we do not explore the

different characteristics of our own language we will never be able to teach or guide our own

students in their own language. Academic preparation, likewise teaching and learning a language

is not based only on achieving communication between people but also transmitting our customs,

traditions and roots that must never disappear since it’s our identity.
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Questions?

1. What mean a mother tongue?

2. Why is important to protect and safeguard our mother tongue?

3. How can we have a better teaching-learning process of Spanish in our country?

4. The mother tongue is part of our identity? Why?

5. Does our country need to strengthen the teaching methods of the mother tongue?