A little reflexion about learning theory My aim is to improve my English so I'll appreciate all your comments. Thanks in advance. A LITTLE REFLEXION ABOUT LEARNING THEORY Nowadays there is a broad agreement about that education is not only recall information (rote learning). At this moment, the new education paradigm takes into account the skills, backgrounds and even feelings of students. Designing these new learning processes are a demanding task for instructors and useful strategies are needed. Basically, the goal of every learning is to acquire a new knowledge, skill and/or attitude thus instructors should design the learning process classifying their aims into these categories and later creating meaningful activities to achieve those aims.

Saint John "Hogueras" Hi language partners, my target is improve my English so I'll appreciate all your comments. Thanks in advance. I'm going to write about the main traditional feast of my town, Alicante. It is know as "Hogueras de San Juan" and it is celebrated between 19th to 24th of June. All the party is focused on "Hoguera" - a huge monument made of paperboard and wood where current and controversial issues are treated from ironic and funny point of view. Each district has its one so the city is full of them, more than 350 "hogueras" sprout everywhere, with their unique aim to be burned the night of Saint John of Baptist, the 24th of June. I hope it has been interesting for you. Thanks.

Do you enjoy reading books? I usually read some books on summer holiday, perhaps because I relate reading books with free time and relaxation. It doesn't mean I read nothing the rest of year. I'm a IT teacher and usually have to read a lot of technical reports and IT news to keep up to date, so I don't have enough time or desire to read anymore after a demanding workday. I haven't predilection for a special genre, although after revising bookcase I have just realized that unconsciously I have tended to read thriller novels with some relationship with computer world. If you're a advance student of Spanish language I'll recommend you these titles: - La casa de los espiritus de Isabel Allende. - La sombra del viento de Carlos Ruiz Zafon. - El origen perdido de Matilde Asensi. What was your las book you read? Would you recommend me a English book for this summer? Thank you and have a nice day :)

Assessment Assessment is one of the most difficult task of teaching activity since it is not only about grading the learners' achievements at the end of each unit but it is a continuous measures that is developed before, during and after teaching practice. The relevance of assessment is even greater in CLIL classes because of the own features of this methodology, becoming a difficult and contentious topic for teachers. Firstly, language and content learning are integrated in the same school subject and therefore the assessment should be designed with this double focus. The key element is how to blend the language matter and content without putting in risk the subject goals. At the beginning of the course, activities like pictures, grids or matching questions could be suited for assessing content. However, learners with a high command of language shall be assessed using tools where language take a more important role, for example an oral assessment

CLIL classes Diverse researches have proved that there are profits in blending language learning and non-linguistic subject content. However, it is not just about using a language as a mean of instruction but using a new method to reach the goals in both contents and language matters. Several initiatives based on this new methodology has been grouped under the term CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). In CLIL classes, learners don't only read a text to learn language but to acquire insights into the non-linguistic subject. Besides, CLIL approach takes into account the learning skills of each learner, whereby lessons have to be designed with this triple focus. Language as a support of content and appropriate activities to the different students' needs and abilities. In addition, educational objectives are structured in a hierarchical way. Questions and activities should be link with other set of materials of higher difficulty. In this way, students will engage actively to their learning, evaluating their outcomes and progress, while teachers will take a role of guide or facilitator of the knowledge needed by the students to achieve each level. Obviously communication plays a fairly important role, so students need a safe learning environment in which they feel confident to experiment with the language. Strategies to achieve this could be for example, glossary of terms or discourse patterns. Although one of the most effective is to develop materials that arouse the interest of learners. CLIL issue can be both challenging and demanding for teachers and students, but it can be also stimulating and effective, for these reasons this strategy should be include in the repertory of every good teacher.

Plurilingualism in Valencian Community Diverse rules from Valencian Community have regulated the use of co-official language, Valenciano, at the different educational stages, setting up a bilingual model. Nevertheless, a growing demand social has led us to new model sociolinguistic, known as Plurilingualism. By other hand, the Council of Europe in its aim to manage a multilingual environment, has developed a Common Framework of Reference by which makes recommendations for teaching and learning languages. One of its most remarkable contribution is the Common Reference Levels that establish different levels of linguistic proficiency allowing the recognition of qualifications among European States. The new Plurilingualism Decree of Valencian Community collects the recommendations from Council of Europe and defines an educational organization with three instructional languages: Valenciano as the language of our territory, Spanish as the State language and English as the primary language of the globalized world. This regulation provides several benefits for each member of the educational community. For example, it improves the communicative competence of learners and allows the public recognition of their achievement through the Common European Framework Reference. Thanks to this, students will able to complete their formative develop in other countries, as it is the case of vocational training studies. In relation to schools, it provides an actual framework to organize the educational system in terms of languages, what subject will be instructed in which language. This allow schools to suit to the sociolinguistic environment in which they are located. In addition, the Common European Framework establish a guidelines to elaborate curriculum of languages contents, describing what the students have to learn and what communicative skills have to manage in each specific reference level. Lastly, the relationship with the families is improved since they have the possibility to pick out among different educational projects. In conclusion, plurilingualism is not just based on achieving a linguistic competences at the end of studies. Plurilingualism treats the language as a channel to transmit the cultural diversity, in order to integrate everyone but keeping their own identity.