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Re: Learning to teach
By:Turnoi
In Response To: Learning to teach (Adam McCambridge)

Let me assume that your (Japanese) students are at elementary level in their English language skills. If they are new to this and take private lessons with you (as I am assuming here), it is important to motivate them and let them experience small amounts of success in their communicative English language skills.

Therefore, concentrate on spoken language skills first (speaking and listening comprehension). For each teaching session with them, you could plan a number of activities around a certain communicative skill like "introducing yourself - asking the name of other people". Teach them the basic structures and vocabulary required for such sentences first, then let them repeat to train pronunciation. Next, proceed with having them practice this among themselves - tell student A to introduce him/herself and then to ask for the name of student B. This will be enough to deal with for a single 45 minutes teaching session with a group of students not larger than 10 people.

For the future sessions, you could plan other communicative topics of daily conversation like "Asking/Telling where you come from", "Asking for prices and the time" (requires practice on numbers first) in a similar manner.

You could do this by making or not making use of a textbook. It is important to find out what your students want and what their level of English language skills already is like.

That's all I could say for the time being. I am on travel and cannot post much.

I am sure if Dr. Yanni Zack has something to add, he will do that in a most helpful way.

Good luck!






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Learning to teach -- Adam McCambridge
Re: Learning to teach -- Dr. Yanni Zack
Re: Learning to teach -- Turnoi


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