I believe that project PILE this year has been a learning experience for everyone involved, myself included. The use of a Language Assistant coupled with the act of learning English via different subjects means that one way or another, everyone is learning something. For myself, as the Language Assistant, this meant revisiting a few subjects that I had not studied since my own schooldays but learning them from a completely different perspective. I have also been able to learn things that are not taught in the UK, through experiencing a different curriculum. I have been able to experience and notice the differences between the English and Spanish schooling systems, working in a Catalan school has been particularly interesting for me. I also hope that PILE is a learning process for the teachers involved, as hopefully both they and the students have benefitted from my status as a native speaker, both linguistically and culturally. I know that I have enjoyed learning about culture and language from students and teachers alike. However, most of all, i am positive that project PILE is a great way for the students to learn. Because, rather than confusing the subject matter, I believe that learning different subjects whilst learning English makes the subjects twice as clear for the students and teaches them to think laterally. Furthermore, all of this is done in such a way that the students are also enjoying the lessons.
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