My learners

characterization

NAME OF THE STUDENT GROUP A	AGE	CURRENT PLACE	PROFESSION	English level.	ADITTIONAL DETAILS
Henry Carrillo Burgos	50 years old	Cucuta	English teacher	Upper intermediate. (B1-B2)	Henry is a very good and hard working student who has a long experience working as a teacher for more than 10 years. His commitment in these speaking classes is very good. Although he has told me about some problems that he has had, he always makes an effort to get a better future for him and his family. He makes the lessons more dynamics because he always has a good and solid point of view about the topics we talk about.
Ronald wilfredo Calvache	40	Potosí Nariño	System engineer	Upper intermediate. (B1-B2)	Wilfredo is an outgoing person who is always attentive to the commands I ask him.  His English level is so evident because he had taken an English course before he had started studying at UNAD. He told me that he had always wanted to study languages and something about teaching but he couldn’t. Now that he has the opportunity to do it, he is making the best of him.
Karol Natalia Hernandez Bedon.	23 years old	Yopal Casanare	Primary teacher	Basic (A1-A2)	She is a diligent student who has some knowledge of English especially in the theoretical part but she still needs to practice more because although she tries to pronounce well there are some difficulties in her fluency. She tries to show commitment but she has been absent from some lessons.
Alvaro Andres Murillo	23 years old	Calí Valle del cauca	Police officer	Basic (A1-A2)	Andres needs to practice more his English. He tries to participate as much as possible but sometimes it is difficult for him to hold a conversation.
Luis cevallos	35 years old	Quibdó Chocó	Public servant	Basic (A1-A2)	He is the kind of student that seldom participates in the activities. Although he tries to show a good attitude, he needs to participate more.
Elioisa Carreño	45 years old	Nuchia Casanare	teacher	Basic (A1-A2)	She is the kind of student who really wants to study and participate in the activities but unfortunately it is difficult for her to take part in this lessons
Carlos Daniel García	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A He never showed up in the activities.

NAME OF THE STUDENT GROUP B	AGE	CURRENT PLACE	PROFESSION	English level.	ADITTIONAL DETAILS
jose agustin chirino rangel	32 years old	Curumaní Cesar.	Construction Worker	Intermediate (A2)	Agustin is a responsible student who is always trying to take part in the activities and he is always the most committed student of this group. I really appreciate his dedication because for him it is difficult to find a free space to be in the activities due to his job
marinela sanchez lopez	20 years old	Monteria Cordoba	student	Elemental (A1)	Marinela seems to be the kind of student who attends the lessons more because she has to than because she wants to. From all my students she is the one with the lowest level and she rarely participates in the conversations. Anyway I can say that at least she tries to attend to the lessons.
Marlen Margoth Riascos Mosquera	37	Suarez cauca	student	Basic (A1-A2)	I really admire marlen’s effort because even though she doesn’t have a high level of English, she tries to study with the few resources that the place where she lives allows her to have.
Juan Pablo Delgado Ruiz	24	Puerto asis	student	Basic (A1-A2)	He is the kind of student that has potential to work on but he needs more dedication and commitment to improve his level.
jose ezequiel cortes rojas	26 years old	Agua chica	student	Elemental (A1)	Ezequiel rarely attends to the lessons and when he does, his microphone never works and that’s why I need to call him to his phone but any way he shows a lack of practice in his speaking.

testimonials
henry carrillo:                                                                

Elioisa carreño

Agustin Rangel

                                                                           

Juan Pablo

andres Murillo

Achievements:

After having the opportunity of sharing my knowledge with the students I worked with for this pedagogical experience, there are some things that I would like to mention. One of the most important purposes that I had at the moment of giving those lessons was to see how I could manage that modality of teaching (using virtual environments). I had to admit that at the beginning it was a mixture of emotions because it was something new for me.

The purpose of those speaking lessons was to make the students practice the speaking skill through different topics of conversation and I have to admit that this purpose was achieved because many of them gained more confidence and fluency at the moment of speaking.

Although there were some shortcomings related to internet connection, it was proved that the virtual modality to teach English is going to be very effective and requested for the near future