Teachers Role In Bilingual Education

them more power. And, in a sense the learners’ autonomy gives more importance to students than teachers. However, this does not mean that teachers’ role is erased from the learning process, but it means that the teachers’ role in class changes. While traditional teachers based all their teaching on a book, in an autonomous classroom, the teachers’ role is to provide assistance to learners, tell them what they need to know and how they can learn it. In the case of English, this means to make them aware of why they need to learn English, what they should learn it and how they could do it. Even though this last competence was almost impossible to attain because at this stage students tend to rely on the teachers’ instruction too much.

I used a combination of traditional and modern tools to ensure that the teaching-learning process occurs effectively. These include the blackboard, the digital version of the book and the workbook, the computer, the projector, photocopies, flashcards and ICT tools. I used the following textbook: English Alive! Students Book and Workbook 3. I believe that this book is suitable for the third grade of ESO, nevertheless, since these students have a much higher level of English than those outside the bilingual

This puts teachers in a dilemma, in one sense they have to compete with these new technologies and at the same time, they have to use them as a medium of instruction. And, because ICTs are an integral part of students’ lives, these should be integrated into the English curriculum. Integrating ICTs in the classroom has many benefits, ICTs are a great tool to stimulate students’ curiosity, to improve students’ ability to look for information, their ability to invent things or creativity and to work autonomously. Furthermore, ICT tools help teachers transform teacher-centred classes into student-centred