RE: ADSactly Life : Teaching with Your Fingernails
I'm glad you're part of the team of writers on @A DSactly's blog, @hlezama. Your knowledge and experience, I'm sure, will give us significant insights.
As for the general question of teaching-learning, I agree with you that it is a process that must be fulfilled with the best conditions. The development of a modern society depends on education.
With regard to the teaching of one language and more than one second language, it is indispensable today more than ever to have the technical resources and support, in a world that is in continuous movement and increasingly widespread (the "global village" of McLuhan).
Finally, it is very regrettable that you have had to cut your university teaching career because of the terrible conditions in every sense that the current regime in Venezuela has brought the educational system (particularly the university level).
Thank you for your interesting post, @hlezama. We are reading each other.
Thank you, @josemalavem. I remember when I started college in 1991 we had a university library where we could find any book by any of the major publishing houses. We had faculty members from England, the USA, France, and many other countries. Even by 1997, the year I graduated, we had a language lab that was the same model of the one I saw in Ohio University. Every year 2 of our best students were selected to travel abroad in exchange for two students from England or the USA. We were actively being part of that global village.
There were plans for improvement; there was a vision of what we could become in 5 or 10 years. That stop by 2000 and nose-dived by 2008. From that point on we were doomed to disappear as a competitive university.
Education is key for the development of any country and the teaching of languages are an integral part of that development.
We have some 25 years of backwardness to recover from if we want to be back in the educational game/business.