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Shin Kang, Joan. “Developing Dynamic Units for EFL” English Teaching FORUM 2007: 2-8 Learning English in a real context in real time with purpose and meaning for students is a complex challenge for teachers. This article helps teachers to develop attractive lesson plans for students in order to connect English as a subject to their lives. The article also explains how important it is to consider the variables of the students at the moment of planning a lesson. In order to do research about how to improve student academic life in the classroom work? it is necessary to know how important the lesson plan is and the variables that influences it. So the relationship between lesson plan and students performance is vital in order to improve the academic life of a student through the classroom work. This article has an attractive style, many important teaching tips, activities and examples of designing a lesson which support their main idea, the connection between lesson plans and academic students’ results.

Wright, Tony. Roles of Teachers and Learners. Oxford University, 1987. In any kind of relationship it is fundamental to follow a role and to know what are the duties and the responsibilities of any role that we have to do in life are. I believe Teachers and students have their own roles in the classroom. However, from the both sides do not see clearly what are their duties and responsibilities. Effective education is related to know what duties are involved in our professional role. Improve the academic life of a student in the classroom work is strongly associated with roles. If student knows what are her or his duties and teachers duties the student will have the conscious of her or his own job and he or she could demand an effective work from the teacher.

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Saffie, Nubbia. ¿Valgo o no valgo?. Chile. LOM, 2000.

Student’s performance is deeply connected to self-esteem. Since students are very young, mistakes and achievements are tested. These issues affect students’ self-esteem. Negative effects are very difficult to take out of the child’s mind. Success in students’ lives gives shape to their self-confidence. A child who has high self-esteem, she or he is going to have better relationships. On the other hand, the student who does not trust in her or his abilities, he or she will not have motivation to face challenges or even worse an academic life. The book “¿Valgo o no valgo?” by Nubia Saffie Ramirez develops the important connection between self-esteem and student performance. In addition, the period adolescence is analyzed because it is a complicated period in students. When students are adolescents, they need to be accepted by others, they need love and autonomy. Behave badly, alcohol and drugs abuse can appear at this moment. These reflections are useful for teachers and parents showing a way for an effective education system in order to achieve students’ goals. It is important for teachers to know the importance of self-esteem in student’s performance. This knowledge can improve students’ performance. Also the book has many exercises that teachers can apply on their lesson plans. From the psychological point of view this text is fundamental for the research project about factors that influences on student’s performance. However the book needs more exercises that can be applied in the classroom and activities in the lesson plan.

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Burns, J. David. “Will I do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students´ expectations”. Journal of the scholarship of Teaching and Learning 8.3 (2008): 1-19. The author David J. Burns, a business C teacher, researches students’ results in comparison to their expectations at the Business College in Xavier University. Burns establishes students’ expectations unpack self-handicapping a harmful factor for students’ performances. The author highlights different elements which affect students’ performance in tests. However he does not show a clear pattern and teachers cannot overcome these negative elements in students’ performance. On the other hand, this article is useful in terms of recognition of negative factors that affect students. Consequently, the recognition of these negative elements will be helpful for teachers. The article encourages teachers to do their own researches about this negative elements and how to eliminate them.

How to improve the student academic life in the classroom work.

The student performance is deeply connected to self-esteem. Since students are very young, they are tested their mistakes and achievements. These issues affect students’ self-esteem. The negatives effects are very difficult to erase in the child’s mind. Success in students’ lives gives shape to their self-confidence. A child who has high self-esteem, she or he is going to have better relationships. On the other hand, the student who does not trust on her or his abilities, he or she will not have motivation to face challenges, even less an academic life. This book “¿Valgo o no valgo?” by Nubia Saffie Ramirez develops the important connection between self-esteem and student performance. In addition the adolescence period is analyzed because it is a complicated period of students. When students are adolescents, they need to be accepted by others, they need love and autonomy. Misbehave, alcohol and drugs abuse can appear at this moment. These reflections are useful for teachers and parents showing a way to an effective education system in order to achieve students’ learning. It is important for teachers to know the importance of self-esteem in the student performance. This knowledge can improve students’ performance because the book has many exercises that teachers can apply on their students. This text is fundamental for the research project from a psychological point of view that influence on the student academic life. However the book needs more exercises that can be applied in the classroom and activities in the lesson plan.