Blackouts, Panic Attacks, Stress, Exam fear and test anxiety. Those are just a view of the symptoms many students who are beginners have and cause them not to enjoy learning English. Nonetheless this affection of anxiety can no longer be ignored while teachers have multiple choices to teach their students a new language. The educator’s preferred method has a very big impact on their student’s language achievement. The best method of English language teaching to solve this problem would be the Community language learning (CLL). This social-process view of language “draws on the counseling metaphor to redefine the roles of the teacher (the counselor) and learners (the clients) in the language classroom” (Richards and Rodgers, 2001) and balances …show more content…
The success of the method relies largely on the translation expert knowledge of the counselor. Therefore the teacher must be eloquent in the target language and in the students' mother language. Even though CLL focusses on fluency rather than accuracy, the student has the counselor’s aid if he mispronounces or is confused about a word or a phrase, which precludes a wrong understanding of the grammatical system of English. The student centered nature of the method provides motivation and security. According to La Forge, CLL learners “are encouraged to attend to the ”overhears” they experience between other learners and their knowers. (1983)” This works especially well with lower level students who are struggling in spoken …show more content…
The teacher needs to distance himself from the whole process because he must resist the pressure "to teach" in the traditional senses and push them to do it themselves. That is the process of becoming an independent student. As one CLL teacher notes, "I had to relax completely and to exclude my own will to produce something myself. I had to exclude any function of forming or formulating some¬thing within me, not trying to do something"(Curran 1976: 33)
Furthermore Community language learning helps students how to learn from another. In the last stage, students analyze the language they have used. This involves looking at the form of tenses and vocabulary used and why certain ones were chosen, but it will depend on the language produced by the students. They can analyze the records in group work, which supports the idea of a harmonic team spirit in
The teacher’s approach to teaching is: The harder she pushes the students the harder they will work and the more they will learn. Some people might argue that this is not the proper way to learn. Many people would surely prefer a safe environment where it is okay to make a mistake and discuss issues in a language they are far more comfortable to speak. As a result of the teacher being so mean the students are frightened to speak. Though through hard times most people will often feel like it helps that you are not the only one struggling, something that the refugees most defi-nitely must be feeling when they arrive at a new country and has to learn a new language.
What kind of imagery comes to mind when the word savage its said aloud? What kind of connotation does you think drives this word? Primitive, barbarian, negligent? Because if so, it’s a perfect word that depicts what author Jonathan Kozol, in his book Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s School, is trying to portray about the United States School System. His book opens the eyes of the reader to the worse and best of what schooling in the U.S is.
Question 1.1 Firstly, EDC practitioners should not use food in art activities because food is meant for eating and it is extremely expensive. There is an extreme demand for food in poor communities. There are many homeless people who go to bed without having a meal for the day, and the amount of job loss in the community means that people do not have enough money to survive to even buy food to feed and support their families. However, EDC practitioners should not use food in art activities because it may offend a number of cultural groups who use the food for religious celebrations.
Within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) it is enormously important for relationships to be formed and maintained. Relationships should be formed between teachers and their pupils, teachers and parents and between teachers themselves. It is important for relationships to be maintained throughout the EYFS so that the child’s learning and development is effectively taught, so parents and carers knows they can trust the teachers and so teachers can work together successfully. Teachers and their pupils need to have a positive relationship.
The importance of following directions the first time they are given is because your teacher can give you directions that are to save your life and if you don't listen you may end up dead if this was a life or death situation. If we follow directions the first time that they are given then we would be able to get through all or at least half of our lessons in one or two class periods. If we follow directions it make it easy and simple for the teacher and the students. The teacher just wants you to follow directions so that you can learn what you need to learn for your upcoming test because the directions that the teacher wants you to follow will help you later on in life. Following directions also helps you in an unpredicted situation like
Within my observation of the classroom; I was able to see how the teacher interacted with the students, how gender role played a role within the students, and lastly see the how the students interacted. The first thing I observed and saw was how the teacher interacted with the students as she taught. I noticed that often she did not encourage the students to do better; she would just tell them to re-look at their papers and fix their papers if
The students were highly engaged. I could say that the concepts to be learn were explicitly linked to ELLs’ background experience and past learning. I listened to the teacher’s speech and voice projection, it was appropriate (not too slow, not too fast), and she emphasized the importance of being respectful/active listeners. She ensured that each students had sufficient time to respond to her questions, and clarify if a student seemed confused (regarding the objectives). As the students did the group work, Mrs. Carbone foster noticing.
2.0 INTRODUCTION Language development happens both inside the classroom (as part of a formal establishment, school or institute) and outside it. The classroom is generally considered a formal setting, and most other environments informal, with respect to language learning. “In environments where informal language development is adequate, it is possible to regard the formal classroom as supplemental, complementary, facilitating and consolidating”(Van Lier, 1988: 20). For second-language development in such environments the informal settings can be regarded as primary and the formal classroom as ancillary. The L2 lesson then becomes a language arts lesson, focusing on special language skills and cognitive/academic growth, much in the same way
Teaching methods differ in terms of approach which as observed relate more to procedures which influence inner coherence, produce specific educational effects. The traditional approach embodies two, namely: (a) the didactic method, also called the directive or autocratic style, which is based on logo-centrism and an instructor-centred approach. Its focus is the teacher, who explains the logical and practical aspects of the issue or topic; secondly, (b) the dialectic method. In this approach, students are involved in the learning process and are expected to ask questions; thirdly, (c) The heuristic or research method. This method makes students the protagonists of their learning process, since they must find, guided by the instructor, and through research and experimentation, the solutions to the problems.
Differentiated instruction is a support or concept for effective teaching that involves showing students with different ways to learning. According to Bearne (1996). “ differentiated instruction corresponds to an innovative approach through which educators whatever their subject area, are able to bring modification to curricula, teaching methods, usage of educational sources and resources, learning events or activities as well as assessment and evaluation methods.” Differentiation in simple words means tailoring instruction to meet individuals needs that is student needs in the school context. Differentiated instruction is the way a teacher anticipates and responds to a variey of students need in class.
It provides the most effective learning condition which is the gap between what the learners can and cannot do without help in the ZPD. When planning the scaffold, a teacher should consider the designed-in scaffold, where the teacher has to plan before a teacher and the interactional contingent which is the situation in the classroom context. The teacher can provide the scaffold to learners during listening and speaking class to help the learners to decode and meaning build the sound they heard. A teacher who is not able to provide suitable scaffolding in the classroom is not able to motivate the learners to learn because the lesson may be either too simple or too difficult for the learners to learn. In conclusion, a “good” language teacher should be able to plan, select and sequence the activities to provide the suitable challenge and scaffold for learners to learn
Some one to ones may be required to support learners with speech, language and communication needs but it is important they spend the majority of their time in the classroom, so they are exposed to the skills they need to develop. The teacher may use some of the following techniques to enable progress when teaching a pupil with communication or language need; reducing background noise, do not finish their sentences also provide opportunities for collaborative group work and discussion (Glazzard, Stokoe & Hughes,
The Aural-Oral Approach in English Language Teaching In English language teaching there are several approaches that can be applied in a classroom. Each one has purpose and gives concern to certain skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) development. One of these approaches is Aural-Oral Approach. The Aural-Oral Approach is based on developing two language skills: listening and after that speaking which is the earlier stage of learning a language (Geri, 1990).
Being a teacher is a journey that has much to do with learning about yourself and being aware that what happens in your classroom reflects only on how are you with yourself. Teachers are not conscious that they project into students, and that affects how things go in the classroom. I believe the first characteristic of a good teacher is that he/ she is always willing to analyze his/her teaching performance. Second the teacher is humble enough to receive input about the development and application of techniques, learning from it and improving.
CHAPTER I Background and Purpose 1.1. Introduction For a long time, translation has been a controversial issue on whether it can be an instructional tool in language learning classrooms or not. From the beginning of the twentieth century, there has been several arguments against using translation as a language teaching tool. Translation as a language learning activity was considered as being unsuitable within the context of foreign language learning (Brown, 2002).