miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2009

My english course

One of the most important things in my life is the language. The language is the base of the social interaction. The language is reflected in all the things of our daily life.

There are many languages around the world. Some of them are really complex, because they have various tones or symbols that the Spanish doesn’t have. For example, the Thai people use different zones of the vocal structure to express some tones and they don’t use the letters that we use.

I have always had a great admiration for the people who know many languages. I have always wanted to learnt Japanese or German, because I think that theses languages are very cool, although they are very difficult.

I had great English teachers in my school, but I want to improve my English with the course at the university.

I began my English course in 2008. I had to take an English exam the first week to evaluate my English knowledge’s. It was a hard experience because it was the first test of the year. My final score wasn’t very poor, but I had to start the level two of the English course, anyway. The level two was a special experience, because the teacher was very strict with us. She has a fixation with the English book. However, I could brush up my English learning or remembering other words.

In 2009, I started the level three of my English course. My teacher was Rosa Zagal.I think that the level three was a great experience, because I could learn more English with the blogger. I think blogger is a great tool to learn English, because we can know other words or review our grammar mistakes with the teachers. Besides, the students can write their opinions or stories about different topics.

I began my final English course (the level four) this second semester. My teacher is Alvaro. He is a nice guy and a great teacher. Alvaro knows many things about the English language. I think he is very patient with us. I have learnt many things with him, especially, phonetic expressions.

Summary, I have had a good experience with the English course at the university. However I’m disagree with some things of it. For example, using English’s book is very boring, so, as a teacher, I would extend the time using other methods to learn English. I would use the dramatization, dialogues or the meetings with English native people.

viernes, 6 de noviembre de 2009

challenges of my discipline

My discipline is facing different challenges at this time. In the technological area my discipline has to make new tools to find out evidences of mental illnesses in the brain. But, in our country, we need improve our cognitive tests, because many of them are very oldest.

Also, as psychologists we have to change the social structure to improve the psychological service. Thus it is necessary create more places to treat the mental illnesses. Our disciplines have to create therapists to change some social problems: bullying, homiceides against women and discrimination.

We have to improve the conditions of the people with serious problems, like schizophrenics. Today, they don’t receive good treatments because our hospitals don’t have the facilities to help them. Another important challenge is regulate the distribution of the medicaments in the psychiatrist therapists, because many of the pills produce secondary effects in the people.
In the educational area, we have to face the ordinary problems of the classroom. One of the ways to change this situation is making a better the communication between psychologists and teachers.

I think is important to demand more resources to change the currently situation of myr discipline. Also, it is important improve the professional level of our psychologists. As a consequence, we could see better therapies and results in the patients. Maybe, one of the benefits of this would be the decrease of the levels of discrimination to the people with mental ilnesses.
In the other hand, we have to regulate the university system, especially in our country. There are many universities giving psychology in Chile and many of them are private. Theses universities only want the money of the students and they don’t give good lessons. So, this situation decreases the quality of the Chilean psychology.

The Chilean government has to supervise our discipline developing ethical commissions, because we can not play with the problems of the people.

We need more money, supervision and control of the psychologists if we want to make a social change in our country.