*Questionnaire*

1. How do you define learning?
It's sometimes a conscious process that we may undergo in our attempt to develop a skill or
ability with the purpose of reaching a goal or covering a need.

2. How do you define teaching?
It refers to a process intended to give learners appropiate instructions and guide them so that
they can have some basics to facilitate the development of a skill. In that sense, teaching
involves setting a good example for our pupils and provide them with everything they need to
encourage them in the learning process.

3. How do you define language?
It's not only a way of communication, but also the main feature of human beings since
language is a purely human skill. In fact, it's what makes us different from any other specie.
We as owners of the language can make use of it not only by means of communication, but it
can also transfor and create cultures and ways of living.

4. What roles are students expected to assume in your classroom?
The main feature is to be curious and and to be constantly researching about what they are
being taught. In this way, they keep an active position towards the class and contribute to
their own improvement. Not to be conformist is also an important aspect of being a learner
since it keeps them committed to look for the aspects that are not provided in the teaching
enviroment.

5. How do you see your role in the classroom?
Most of the times, I am a very active and creative teacher. I always try to make everything
clear to avoid misunderstandings among my students. I'm also a littel bit demandingto push
them to work hard.

6. What are the qualities of a good teacher?
Patient, respectful, good command of the topics, punctual, tolerant and responsable.

7. What kinds of interactions occur in your classroom?
Students interact between them through dialogues, interviews, presentatins and group work

8. What is the most rewarding aspect of teaching for you?
It's amazing to see my students making use of all the things i've already explained because it
shows me how well thay have understood and it also says that they have a good command of
an accomulative knowledge. I really enjoy seeing my students trying to speak in English
without being afraid of making any mistake because taking risks play an important role in the
learning language process.

9. What kinds of students do best in your classroom?
The ones that are constantly asking and making things clearer. the ones that are not afraid of
making mistakes and just take the risk to test if it works or not.

10. What kind of training do you think English language teacher in our context need?
It would be of great importance to work on Ethics to teach teachers-to-be to keep distances
and not to get involve with the students. What it means is that even though we start teaching at a very young age, we should not treat our students as one of our friends.

11. What kind of support for professional development is there at the place you work?
We don not really receive instructions or advice. We are just asked to teach some units and
finish them on time. They demand punctuality from the teachers and, to be completely
honest, no more than that.

12. What are the best ways to learn a language?
There is no better way than feeling to do it because we know that that is what we really wat to
do. We need to be deeply committed to this process and invest as much effort and time as we
can.

13. What kind of dialect do you think should be taught?
It does not really make any difference in the process because at the end we are the ones in
charge of making the final desicion based on which of them we feel comfortable speaking.

14. What kind of changes would you like to make in your practice?
I would like to work on my patience because I get stressed easily so I want to learn how to
deal with all the obstacles that a classroom enviroment represents.