DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES

1. ARMY POLYTECHNICSCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES

2. ARMY POLYTECHNICSCHOOL TECHNOLOGICALADVANCED LABORATORY DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES

3. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHICAL LOCALIZATION • First inauguration 1955. • In 1961 First Grade. • In 1972 Primary School, “Abdón Calderón” 90 students. Administration Mrs. Bachelor Aída Dueñas. • In October 1984. Ministerial Agreement Nº 1174, as Educational Unit “Abdón Calderón". • Nowadays is located in “El Pintado”, as “Abdón Calderón” Military High School, with about 2642 students. • Subjects are: Accounting, Commercialization and Informatics.

4. PROBLEM SETTING • Students low level in English communication Language. • The lack of: • Planning process. • Teachers’ practice. • Contact with foreign - cultures. • Supporting material. • Programs like our proposal “English laboratory”.

5. JUSTIFICATION The lack of investigation methods in teachers and students. Listening and comprehension. The expired technology. Foreign universities are applying innovations into the field of language teaching and learning process. We propose the installation of an advanced laboratory.

6. THE USE OF ENGLISH IN THE CURRENT WORLD • 350,000,000 Native English speakers and more than 400,000,000 English speakers as a second language: • Voice of the world. • Information. • Business. • Maritime communication. • International air traffic control.. • Movies and music.

7. ENGLISH AS A COMMUNICATION METHOD Everybody wants to speak in English. Ecuadorian teachers - pronunciation". Bad English pronunciation confuse - advanced English grammar. We learn English just for communication. The Method - speak English in different situations. Encourage the students main skills. Students will be taught just in English.

8. ENGLISH AS A TOOL WORK English a vehicle for communication. English a natural method to exchange ideas or points of view. English applied in jobs. It is important to mention Immigrants.

9. ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES There are a lot of specialized words and phrases used everyday in different fields. such as: business, medicine, and various scientific and technical fields, and other types of (ESP) "English for Specific Purposes”.

10. FIRST ENGLISH LABORATORIES A disc-player. Master-cabin with head-phones. Students’ control. Schools are using it until now. The last technology laboratory. CD’s. Cassette. DVD player and internet through computer control, and the teacher can also control the students and order activities.

11. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES New technologies are broadening educational horizons. USA and Japan – last technologies change every day. Adolescents among 10 and 20 spend many hours on computers or screens TVs.

12. CURRENT HARDWARE AND SOFTWAREFOR ADVANCEDLABORATORIES SOFTWARE Available in the market. A.C.M.H. carry on educational program. HARDWARE Master cabin with Programmable Recorders, headsets, software installation for handling of the class. Digitalized into hard disk of the computer. Organize independent work groups for interacting student-professor and among students: Play recorder, CD’s and cassettes for teachers. Headphones with microphone for T.S. Electronic board.

13. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INNOVATION • Everybody is talking about innovation but nobody knows about innovation, so it is important to ask ourselves some questions such as: • WHY DO WE HAVE TO INNOVATE? • Advancing technology. • Changing environment. • Changing industrial structures and strategies. • Evolving society. AND WHY NOT TO MENTION THE IMPLEMENTATION OF: • ISO 9001 – 2000. • ISO 1400 – 1997. • OHSAS 1801 – 1999.

14. PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS • Responsibles. teachers and students. • Teachers training courses. • PROHIBITIONS: • Use without authorization. • Smoke. • Consume foods or beverages. • Cause scandals or rackets.

15. GENERAL RULES • Abusive language. • Incitement to hatred. • Intolerance. • Swearing - Even masked profanity! • The use of inappropriate nicknames “Hot Babe”!. • Disrespecting other visitors. • Advertising products or services. • Causing a disturbance. • Purposefully annoying other visitors.

16. SUPERVISION Responsible for the laboratory care: Entrance key. Daily cleaning. Take notes of the novelties. At the same way the teachers will be responsible for the correct use in class.

17. USING ALL THE RESOURCES Not only the laboratory equipments can help in English teaching-learning language process. Teachers can also use other tools like: Internet. Video conferences. News. Movies in DVD Format. Music. Different authors' books.

18. SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED • The “Abdón Calderón” Military High School spends from 5 to 10 hours per week in listening class or perhaps I should say "hearing“. So, here we have some advices in order to improve the student’s listening skills: • Maintain eyes contact among them. • Focus the content. • Avoid emotional involvement and distractions. • Treat listening as a challenging mental task. • Stay active by asking questions.

19. SKILLS AND MICRO-SKILLS • Listen to English every day • Make ESL a friend • Read English stories • Write down new words • Keep an English diary • Visit an English speaking country • Short conversations • Vocabulary • Crossword • Post-cards • Basic Grammar

20. SELF TRAINING There are programs in CDs. For improving teachers and students’ listening, reading, writing and speaking that are used by thousands of schools and universities around the world, so we suggest to A.C.M.H to get: basic, intermediate and advanced courses. In internet, student’s can get instant access to English language radio news programmes wherever they are in the world.

21. TEACHERS’ FINAL EVALUATION There are common methods for evaluating teachers, such as: measurement tests of teacher characteristics, student achievement test scores, and ratings of teachers' classroom performance. Some research has been done to improve the evaluation process. This digest provides information about evaluation types, criteria, methods, procedure, and successful evaluation strategies.

22. TYPES OF EVALUATION • Formative is a tool used to improve instruction. • Summative is a tool used to make personnel decisions. • There are some strategies that teachers need to carry out: • Aptitude. • Ability. • Performance. • Competence. • Experience. • Use of knowledge. • Talent and so on.

23. ADVANCE ENGLISH LABORATORY Advantages of HARDWARE and SOFTWARE which allow us to improve the teaching learning process: Teacher–student COMMUNICATION, interactive classes, piloting of activities and advances, Internet access, multimedia resources, supported with communication means that facilitate collaboration and discussion when needed, orientation, doubts resolution, teachers and students motivation.

24. Learning based in: Content Communication and Control

25. ADVANCE ENGLISH LABORATORY • The main difference between teaching in this advance laboratory and making use of traditional methods rest in the following combination: • pedagogical contents (electronic materials, presentations, audios, videos, etc. ) • communication (network communication, personalizing, grouping or taking the overall class control) • monitoring (registry and observation of student activity). Learning = Content + Communication + Control

26. ADVANCE ENGLISH LABORATORY With correct tools is highly effective to learn a language, so this laboratory provides wide possibilities. The profit is not only for students but also for teachers who will optimize their time, resources and materials doing less effort. So we have with didactic material preparation, because commonly we have a lot of information in magnetic means, it is more easy to prepare it, avoiding to draw in Bristol boards or blackboards, but also getting information directly from Internet.

27. Laboratory technical description • MASTER UNID: (for monitoring and management. • Monitoring software, allows teacher assemble work groups • centralized closing of the students' stations. • centralization of data and configuration information • administration of virtual spaces digital video, monitoring and support personalized • Teacher-students interaction in written or oral form . . • SERVER COMPUTER • Main board Intel • Processor Intel Core 2 Duo 2,0 GHz Non Celeron • Two Hard disks of 250 Gb • 2GB RAM Memory • DVD-WRITER • Flat panel LCD screen 17” SVGA • Net Card of 10/100/1000 Mbps • DLINK Fax/MODEM Card • Video Graphic card ATI 128 Mb, SB audio circuit integrated. • 4 connectors ATA supporting RAID 0,1,10 • UPS (1500 VA).

28. Laboratory technical description • Video Digitalized card • 4 USB 2.0 ports • 3 PCI ports +1 PCI express port • Keyboard, optical mouse • Auricular Microphone • Electronic audio box • monitor software • Ethernet cable (5 cat RJ45 ) • AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES: VIDEO SWITCH • Connection module for (4 compound sources, 1USB, 1 TV) • Cables and control software • capture and digitalization module for audio and video • TEACHER CONTROL COMPUTER • Main board Intel • Processor Intel Core 2 Duo 2,0 GHz Non Celeron • 250 Gb Hard disk • 2GB RAM Memory • DVD-WRITER • Flat panel LCD screen 17” SVGA • Windows XP • Net Card of 10/100 Mbps • DLINK Fax/MODEM Card • Video Graphic card ATI 128 Mb, SB audio circuit integrated.

29. Laboratory technical description • Documents camera with software • DVD player various formats, DTS Compatible, Dolby Digital & MPG-2. • AMPLIFIERS INTERCOMS FOR STUDENTS • They allow volume regulation, call function and program selection. • With volume control from the master cabin and individual for the students • Teacher – student call function • Program selection (software, cd, video or cassette) • HEADPHONES MICROPHONE • Robust and Durable • Connector phone type • Microphone switchable ON/OFF • Microphone of high sensibility • LIVING ROOM SPEAKERS AND SUBWOOFER • Wall assembly • 30W power of each one • Answer Frequency 80-20.000Hz. • Compact 2 roads, bass-reflex

30. Laboratory technical description • VIDEO PROJECTOR • 2000 lumens with fixation base • ELECTRONIC BOARD • Wireless module with Bluetooth technology • School board 77’’ • ground connections • SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION • Teacher orientations can be used: • Before the class, using an exercise or a recording as introduction to grammar's notion, lexicon or culture that it will be studied in class. • As complement of the class, to illustrate a talkative function, grammar's notion, of vocabulary or of culture already studied. • After the class, to evaluate that taught. So that the students can review during the whole year. • As method of the students' evaluation.

31. Laboratory technical description • The teacher can: • Make Impression of the content with or without the solutions (in notebook format). • Creation of pedagogic orientations and adjust of parameters of the activities. • Each student's detailed piloting with progression chart. • Administration of students groups.

32. Laboratory technical description • Wide and varied pedagogic content: • 250 hours of learning for level • Content distributed in 6 Spaces, included the cultural Space • 35 types of different activities, more than 1.200 exercises • Grammar rules classified by levels and categories • Lexicon of 10.000 words classified by levels and topics • Possibility to study in total immersion

33. Laboratory technical description • Piloting and integrated system supervision: • The piloting and supervision intuitive of students computers. • Communication in real time with students via headset or via electronic messages (numeric and analogical system). • Diffusion of pictures and the sound on all or part of the stations of a class. • Laboratory of active and comparative audio/video.

34. Laboratory technical design • Design : • This can seat forty students • it possesses a single entrance door • it shows the exact location of the piping for data cables and location of the electricity for the laboratory • The front region of the laboratory will have the master cabin and the electronic board • the communication teacher-students will be by means of two networks, one for control informatics equipments an another for audio, video and data signal integration.

35. Laboratory technical design • Teachers will have two screens for control and communication with students and another for teacher work. • There is a server for software monitoring, students data stored, and internet communication. • In this case the work load not affect the speed of audio, video, or data transferred into the class. • An electronic case will serve as interface of headphones, microphones and audio control.

36. ELECTRONIC BOARD annotations, presentations and run applications of computers in meetings and class living rooms. connection in wireless form. Wireless Bluetooth Technology

37. ELECTRONIC BOARD In this way it is complemented the advanced laboratory.

38. ELECTRONIC BOARD This system will allow teachers to work, wireless technology connected to a computer, or in serial interface for wired connection, installed on the wall; the rolling base is optional. The workspace is made with a durable surface, writing with electronic markers. Programmable Soft keys. It works with a video projector embedded to the roof.

39. ELECTRONIC BOARD

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