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I also think that Youtube is a gold mine for interesting and entertaining videos that can motivate students to learn about certain topics. Youtube videos can serve as trigger activities that aim to introduce a topic. During my practicum, one of the teachers I observed showed a video about a young ma...

I also agree with the fact that since students are constantly dealing with a great amount of information and interesting texts through technology, we have to provide them texts that are as interesting and even more than those they read online. Digital texts could be a mean to motivate the students a...

Last semester (fall 2010), I did my practicum in high school, and I noticed that keeping students’ motivation and interest was not an easy task. Providing relevant and useful, but stimulating activities for high school students requires a lot of consideration for their interests and the world they a...

Intensive English programs should be more promoted since there is a need for improving student's level of English. When students participate to an intensive program to improve their English, they receive authentic and constant input. In consequence, they absorb the new material since they have to fr...

I also believe that bilingual education is important since we live in a country and world that requires us and the future generations to speak at least two languages. More specifically, as [i]caludie.ars [/i] says, considering the fact that we live in a country where English and French are the two o...