Teacher-Centered Activities Essay

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The teacher-centered activities or non-communicative activities referred to the language classroom activities in which the teacher is very much the focal point of the class work, exercising considerable control over the activity and the language that is elicited from the students. Whereas, learner-centered activities or communicative activities involve students in using the language for communicative purposes, and which focus more on fluency than accuracy, pays systematic attention to functional as well as structural aspects of language thus preparing students for the world of work.
An ESP learner-centered instruction starts with needs analysis of the students, which is followed by formulation of aims and objectives, content, selection of teaching …show more content…

The learners will work in small group discussions, as well as writing complete sentences describing the medical terms, while they are developing concepts and vocabulary. For example, the students will work on different activities such as Safety in the Lab, Elements of public health, Poisons and Toxins. etc. They will then participate in Venn graphic organizers to compare and contrast the symptoms and health problems, vocabulary maps to define the body parts, and writing prompts describing the different medical terms categories: disease, disorders, surgical, common medical abbreviations and diagnostic terms., etc. In addition, the students will be working in small groups to discuss the nutritional terms (e.g. students are able to write simple sentences to define a nutritional term. For example, “Glucose is commonly referred as blood sugar” “Calorie is a measure of the energy that is contained in a food”, Etc. The key point here is the acquisition of new medical terms and vocabulary words and concepts to improve their medical language knowledge where the students will practice, share dialogues as well as their readings. Therefore, the aim of this syllabus is to develop the learner’s skills while focusing on the need of medical

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