TEACHING BEGINNING LEVELS
It is considered the most challenging level because many students have little or no prior knowledge about the target language, so that is why to teach this level seems to be difficult, but at the end there is a feeling that can not be explained when you see how your students grew up in getting knowledge about the target language. There is a lot of work for the teacher because he/ she has to find the best way to get involved all the students in the target language but it does not matter when you see the results at the end.
TEACHER´S ROLE, AUTHENCITY OF LANGUAGE AND STUDENTS´CREATIVITY
At the beginning the teacher can be seen as the center of attention because he/ she has to model everything, but when you see that your students feel comfortable and start taking part of the environment (the learning of the target language) it is the right moment in which you can get students to participate in groups or pair activities in order to make them feel that you are not the center of attention; I mean to make them feel that you are just the guide.
Step by step you have to get your students to use the target language as much as they can.
The teacher in this stage controls the class, it means lead students in the right way to learn the basics of the target language, so the authenticity of language falls especifically in simple grettings and the introduction of simple phrases and you as the teacher has the responsability to provide activities in which students use the new language, so the students´creativity will be basically in a controlled repertoire of language, it means that students will create something in the target language but just things they already know becuase it has been practiced most of the time.
As you can see teaching in this level is not easy but it is really rewarding.
Alex,
ResponderEliminarI admire your nice attitude towards this group of learners. The satisfaction of seeing them in advanced levels is indescribable.YOu feel even amazed when you know they got nice job positions due to the fact of having learned this language. Wouldn´t it be rewarding to know how you contributed to the success of a person?
You said that it is difficult to teach beginners because they do not have background about English, but remember that at any time you teach, you always have to teach what students do not know. Teaching people who do not know English may be easy because you start with very simple instructions, which you manage well with.
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