At the moment,
I am teaching ESP at the school of education at Universidad Central de
Venezuela in Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas state. The school of education has other teaching
centers in different regions of the country where this career is offered in a
distance modality called EUS (Estudios Univesitarios Supervisados. Students
have to study the subject by their own using the instructional material offered
by the department of Foreign Languages, and I travel to Amazonas every two
weeks in order to meet the students to clarify doubts and assess students’
progress.
I try to
incorporate some technological resources in the classes, but it is a little bit
complicated as some of them have very basic computer skills and just have an e-
mail account which I use as a means of communication to send them extra
material.
People don’t
use computer frequently because computer access is limited and the Internet
service in the region is not very fast. Some of the students can access the
internet at home or at work or in a cyber, but, there are others who live in
the Indian communities, and these students don’t have a frequent access to
computers or internet unless they travel to the city. The university offers
students very basic facilities like the classrooms and a library. At the moment
they are working on updating and improving the computer lab in order to offer
the students free internet access. As soon as their computer lab is ready I
plan to train my students to use other resources in class different from the e-
mail.
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