HELLO THERE!!!
I decided to write about beginning levels because I think this level is hard to work with. Imagine! you are going to be in the mind of those guys saying oh! I saw this with my first English teacher, or Oh my God!! I have not seen this before, for the rest of their career, they are going to recall you. Moreover, I think this level is difficult, too because you have to find the way those guy get comprehension and retention of the new language. But this level could be nice since you can be creative and get a lot of fun with your students since you can do a lot of activities in order to get their attention and retention.
On the other hand, the teacher's role in this case is to be a model, for me this is hard since your students could like to be like you, so imagine, the teacher has to do a good job in this level because he/she is the first step of babies that satart to walk in a new world.
About authenticity of language, I can say, and I have to repeat it, the teacher is who develop the vocabulary of the beginners, so he/she has to be careful with this and use a good pronunciation, vocabulary and accent in order to motivate the students.
talking about student creativity, well, students in this stage have to be receptive, I mean, they have to process the way in which this new language work, and then they are going to be able to produce the new language, maybe with afew words, but the innovation comes with new experience.
You made think about something that I hadn`t took into account, and it`s that we are going to be recalled by our students like their first English teachers in many cases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my God. That is very nice, but it is algo challenging. We are forced not a good work, but the best work we have ever done!
ResponderEliminarI think that teaching beginners is very hard, but at the end you feel very proud of your students and of yourself because when you notice that they have learned, you know that you helped them to accomplish it
Hello. I am in agreement with you when you say that this level is very hard because we have to work very hard, but I think that when we do something because we love it, it comes easier for us. Maybe it is difficult, but as you said, we can get a lot of satisfaction from our job.
ResponderEliminarGod Bless You
Well, I consider we have to do our best in orde to teach as well as we can, and when students have to remember our performace, it can be in a possitive way. In fact, teaching English is viewed as a hard challenge, and its difficulty can vary as teaching childs, teens or adults; however, i agree with you.
ResponderEliminaryou're so right!!! you make an impact when you teach beginners! In my case, I won´t forget my teacher from basic :) she taught me a lot, and as you said, I saw her like a model... It´s so true, you can have a lot fun teaching beginners since there are plenty of activities you can use wiht them. And the most important thing is that teaching beginners is really rewarding for a teacher because it must be really nice seeing someone speaking in English after not knowing anything, and you helped that person to do it.
ResponderEliminarHi everyone,
ResponderEliminarDefinetely beginners are awesome to teach. You are welcoming to learning English and as some of you mention, you can become their most beloved teacher or the most hated one. So either perception will cause a tremendous impact on them. In my personal opinion they are not the most difficult to teach however they are time consuming for you have to prepare a diversity of material and activities. Your purpose is to make their staying in class so pleasant and full of new input.
They demand a lot patience and this is sometimes not easy for some teachers. Imagine a student struggling pronouncing words you must make sure s/he learns the right way so this will imply a lot of repetition and you will feel stuck. This is a feeling we should not demonstrate in class on the other hand we must encourage them to reach the objective of pronouncing well.
What do you think?
yeah. teaching them the right pronunciation requires a lot repetition, and you can not feel comfortable with that, but as teacher Aida said you do not have to demostrate that because if not your students will not be encouraged to repeat any specific phrase or sentence.
ResponderEliminaryou have mentioned that a teacher of beginner students can be either the most beloved or the most hated and that is true because if a student face any problems ar any rewarding situation later, he / she will recall to his / her first teacher, so it is a huge responsability.
good job Elida. as teachers of beginner levels, we have to discover the way they learn and look for different kind of activities in order to help them to get closer to their goals.
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