One of the simplest ways of teaching contextualization or teaching in a

contextualized way is always looking for the relevance in real life of the
topic we are pretending to use, in that way we are making associations in
our brains that would really help us to understand a language.
I would dare to say that there is a way to contextualize everything that is
intended to be taught in an English class, and if it cant be contextualized
that would mean that the topic isnt communicative at all and we are not
interested in that.
There are several advantages in using the contextualization in language
study, one of the principal reasons is that we make associations in our
brains between the things we already know and the things we are trying
to learn, and when the link or the bond between what we knew and what
we are learning is made that information is going to be really analyzed
and understood. Contextualization is also very important in the literature
area, "context" the information that surrounds an idea or piece of
evidence and helps a reader figure out how/why that idea or evidence is
being used. In other words, "contextualizing" a writing means explaining
the situation so that a reader can fully understand the specific examples.
Nowadays, we live in an era of technology, 5 year-old kids know how to
use a smartphone, old people know how to surf the net, I mean,
technology has a big power in society. One of the positive aspects of
today's technologies is the potential to provide learners with a context for
their language study. Part of this is because technology can help imitate
and create the associations, the social settings, the events, the sounds,
etc. Through video we see things in context. Through audio we make
associations from the sounds we hear. Through online social programs
we exchange real information with real people who understand what we
communicate.
As language teachers, everything we do on a daily basis has the potential
of becoming a teaching tool. For example, when we hear a song, we think
of how we can use the lyrics for language teaching. Everything around us
provides a context for a language learning opportunity. The same thing
applies to our use of technology. Whenever we use technology in its
various forms (emails, podcast listening, chats, social interaction, etc.)
there is almost always a potential application to our language teaching.
This, again, is a type of "context" for language teaching because we are
taking the environment around us and using that to help students make
associations and links.
It is a fact that the students have a previous knowledge given by their life
experience, the key to achieve a great contextualization is to use that
knowledge and link it or associate it with the selected topic, in that way,
we form a bond between what the student knew and what the student
knows now and that would mean a much more meaningful learning.