Colonel
Antonio Martínez de Baños
Uprising Language Teachers' challenges through Concept Maps
Bio
Col (Res) Antonio Martínez de Baños Carrillo, assigned at Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Language Area, Zaragoza (Spain).
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He is a PhD on Conflicts, Security and Solidarity by the Zaragoza University and has, among others, the Master in e-learning: Technologies and Methods of online education (Supplement to the title of Continuous Assessment – Europass Model).
Abstract
Keywords: E-learning, cognition, CLIASP, neurolinguistics, concept maps.
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The development of language learning and cognition in scientific, occupational, and professional communication as well as multilingualism is in constant evolution. x
New fields of research are being opened in a wide variety of linguistic circumstances.
Acronyms like EMI, CLIL, ESP, EAP, EFL, EOP … are milestones to have into consideration these days because they are the frame at which tuition is following new intuitions in the realm of how to focus teachers to teach and learners to learn.
The quotations of an unforgettable actor will help us understand some of the real pillars of today’s education.
The subjects in the educational programs’ syllabuses will not be isolated chunks of content anymore but engineering structures ready to be communicated, sometimes to the extreme, in fit-to-fight situations.
To reach the learning goal our military branches should follow a new philosophical concept pinpointed as “Content and Language Integrated Acquisition for Specific Purposes – CLIASP” browsing in the field of neurolinguistics.
Generally speaking, it involves specific contents of different subjects put into action in English shown in concept-neurolinguistic maps.