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DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y POSGRADO (2005) reflect this process in the concept
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of teaching practices:

A teaching practice (TP) session

tem of ideas or beliefs that guide the beha- can range from informal practice
vior of each PNIEB teacher. of a particular technique, perhaps

Teaching and Teaching Practice with other trainees acting as stu-

According to Brown (2000), teaching is de- dents, to aformally assessed les-

fined “as showing or helping someone to son. Teaching practice can take

learn how to do something, giving instruc- place in an Englishs peaking coun-
tions, guiding in the study of something, try or in a country where the first

providing knowledge, causing to know or language is not English. The trai-

understand” (p. 7). Parga (2004) affirmed nees can be native or non-native

that teaching is what happens every day
speakers of English and theclasses
in the classrooms around the teaching-
may be monolingual or multilingual.
learning process. These every-day expe-
Although much of themethodology
riences are what this study is looking for,
outlined could be applicable to tea-
as well as how the teachers perceive, live,
ching children, it is assumedthat the
face and experience this process.
students are teenagers or adults (p.
If creating the right opportunity to
VI).
promote learning strategies that are useful

to the students’ personal and professional
On a slightly different note, Perry
lives is important thenhow teachers create
(1997) claims that “Teaching practice as the
those opportunities to generate learning is
period of time in which you, as a student
also important. Reaching the objective of
teacher, gain first-hand experience in wor-
becoming a good teacher takes time, effort
king with a particular group of children in
and practice. Gower, Phillips and Walters
an early childhood setting” (p. 2). In this

regard, Perry (1997) points out some con-

siderations to take into account for the tea-

ching practice when working with children:

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