ALC Ungheni
De o importanţă majoră este deschiderea unei noi subdiviziuni a Centrului Lingvistic American la Ungheni, unde în cadrul liceului V. Alecsandri 5 grupuri, 40 de elevi şi-au exprimat dorinţa de a studia limba engleză. Astfel, având-o ca profesoară şi coordonatoare pe Diana Retcu, Profesor Access, am reuşit să dăm start în luna septembrie unui semestru cu durata de 4 luni, 64 ore academice per grup. Fiind parte integrantă a Centrului, metoda de predare în subdiviziunea Ungheni rămâne fidelă programei curriculare aplicată de către cadrele didactice ale Centrului, şi anume combinarea armonioasă a metodelor tradiţionale, cm ar fi metoda audio-linguală (Audio-lingual Method) şi Prezentare, Practică, Producere (Presentation, Practice, Production) cu cele moderne cm ar fi metoda directă (The Direct Method), Calea tăcerii (The Silent Way), şi metoda comunicativă (Communicative Language Teaching). Atenţie deosebită se acordă unui echilibru dintre cele 4 grupuri majore de competenţe lingvistice: ascultarea, vorbirea, scrierea şi gramatica. ALC Ungheni Branch- first results
The importance of English can not be denied and ignored since English is the most common language spoken everywhere. With the help of developing technology, English has been playing a major role in many sectors including medicine, engineering, and education, which, in my opinion, is the most important area where English is needed. Particularly, as a developing country, Moldova needs to make use of this world-wide spoken language in order to prove its international recognition. That is why teachers of English should provide the most efficient and modern methods of teaching English. English should be taught in Moldova for the following three reasons: finding a high-quality job, communicating with the international world, and accessing different sources in the entire world. From my experience, it is very good for students to study a sufficient amount of hours, especially for students who have never been to an English speaking society. The necessary amount of English classes will, of course, depend on the individual and our ALC classes can give a good opportunity to choose the most suitable number of hours and increase the knowledge of English. I am glad to say that the new branch of the American Language Center in Ungheni is finishing its first session of 64 hours in a week. To sum it up I can say that out of 40 students-36 students are successfully finishing their courses. Together with my assistant Irina Bucuci tried to use the newest methods and books recommended: “Face 2 Face”, “New Framework” and “Landmark”. There are 5 groups two Elementary, two Pre-Intermediate and one Intermediate group. We managed to use a lot of methods traditional and modern ones as: grammar-translation method, audio-lingual methods, the silent method. There are some other effective ways and techniques of teaching a foreign language that we successfully used during our classes (communicative teaching method; project method; the method of debates; games and role play). There is one more fact to mention about - the interesting and actual topics studied in the classes. That’s why our students are attending with great pleasure the ALC English classes. We hope to develop the Ungheni ALC branch increasing the number of groups and its quality. We came to the conclusion - studying English is very important and it is better to study a few more weeks, than to fail an important course later.
