As stated by the Florida Department of Education (2008),in order to teach English, it is necessary to consider the learning conditions each student in the classroom possesses. The determination whether the type of learning we want to accomplish is developing critical thinking and analysis in our students, or forming strategic learners of contents needs to be carried out. Moreover, we must pay attention to students’ expertise levels about the language. That is, high expertise level students do not require the same strategies that low expertise ones do. High ones need direct information and low ones intense constructivism.
To focus our students’ learning, we have to provide students with high motivational and relevant activities plus appealing challenges to arouse their interest and make them establish personal connections with the information studied to improve their learning. There are even students who require practical applications to learn. Furthermore, the feedback given during and after the treatment of subject matters and about how they are learning help them reflect about this own important process.
In addition, the teaching of major ideas taking into account students’ major work to develop core thinking skills about setting goals, making comparisons, inferring, evaluating and others besides considering correctness, explicit and clear directions and explanations, excluding ambiguous terms or aspects, an alignment of strategies with outcome and a useful guidance and support by facilitators contribute to enhance, encourage and enrich the students’ learning process. If fulfilling, the previous aspects successfully, students’ responses are going to be more effective since they would be able to make identifications, discussions, summaries, relations, explanations and others as a result of their application.
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