Our Philosophy
Our teaching philosophy is based on the following principle: Learning a language is much more than accumulating knowledge of grammar rules and vocabulary. This means that our methodology differs from that used in traditional classes. We promote the use of authentic and contextualized language and at the same time we develop the four basic skills, speaking, listening, writing and reading.
In addition to that, we work on linguistic knowledge with a special emphasis on communication skills. What are communication skills? There are many perspectives and relevant aspects in this regard. The first, but not the most important, is the sociocultural aspect, that is, how to use the language, for example, good manners, the cultural context, which will have an international focus that reflects the future use that our students will find with people of everyone, not exclusively British or American English (they are much more likely to interact with people from other places than directly with the natives).
Returning to the idea of communicative competence, we add to this the interactional or functional competences, such as, for example, the art of conversing with education and respect, apologizing, giving an opinion, talking about future, past and possible scenarios, and even gestures. and body language.
We add to this, strategic competencies, such as reasoning, using logic, analyzing, stimulating memory, advancing in learning autonomy and the development of metacognitive skills – “knowing what is known”. The strategies also include the use of linguistic intuition, or as we say, “let’s see if it slips”. As you can see, learning a language is much more than practicing grammar and memorizing vocabulary. In summary, our philosophy supports our long-term objective, we prepare our students to be able to use the language in the future, contemplating the four skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening. We not only apply this methodology to English, it is the basis with which we teach all the languages we work with.
In addition to that, we work on linguistic knowledge with a special emphasis on communication skills. What are communication skills? There are many perspectives and relevant aspects in this regard. The first, but not the most important, is the sociocultural aspect, that is, how to use the language, for example, good manners, the cultural context, which will have an international focus that reflects the future use that our students will find with people of everyone, not exclusively British or American English (they are much more likely to interact with people from other places than directly with the natives).Going back to the idea of communicative competence, we add to this the interactional or functional competences, such as, for example, the art of conversing with education and respect, apologizing, giving an opinion, talking about future, past and possible scenarios, and even gestures. and body language.
In addition to that, we work on linguistic knowledge with a special emphasis on communication skills. What are communication skills? There are many perspectives and relevant aspects in this regard. The first, but not the most important, is the sociocultural aspect, that is, how to use the language, for example, good manners, the cultural context, which will have an international focus that reflects the future use that our students will find with people of everyone, not exclusively British or American English (they are much more likely to interact with people from other places than directly with the natives).
