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(More) Differing Views on Teaching in China |
Two month ago we ran a story on Teaching in China, as we hear from many teachers wanting information about teaching in China. Our story and information generated a huge response, positive and negative.
Here is more Feedback:
Interesting article on teaching in China. My husband and I have had similar experiences...he walked out of one class in which the students were so rowdy, stating, "I've not come all this way to not be respected." We choose to work primarily with adults. For instance, I'm about to go and teach 15 Chinese staff members of a Chinese language school for 7 weeks. They are eagerly anticipating my coming and will put in great effort to improve their English speaking skills. Yes, even adults will say they don't want grammar--"we've had that for years in school"--but I weave it into the conversations, letting them know that English grammar is part of all conversation!
As always, enjoy your newsletter,
J D
Hi. I just read the article and have some comments. To be fair, I think the situation described could be an ESL class in many different countries around the world. I have been teaching ESL for more than 11 years in Canada and in Asia. Teachers will also find students who are not motivated and who will do the bare minimum to pass. (e.g. me in French class in Canada!). I think it is important to provide a balanced view of ESL/EFL teaching and students.
Thanks for listening
P P
A Canadian in Hong Kong
What do you think? Let me know! brian@efl-esl.com
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| Teaching Young Learners |
It is true. Some people just have a real knack for teaching young learners. Possibly they already have children of their own or else they are blessed with an affinity for youngsters and endless patience! Regardless of your own attitude to teaching this age group (I'm speaking about 4-14 year olds here, rather than teenagers or kindergarten age learners) you will probably find yourself in front of a young class at some stage in your career. Difficult and challenging they may be but get it right and they can be the most enthusiastic and rewarding of students. Here Louisa Walsh gives provides some pointers.
Keep it fun, lively and simple. You could take a project based approach so one theme is exploited in lots of different ways over a series of lessons. (See an example below or a project based set of lessons.)In this way the vocabulary is reinforced and repeated in a variety of different tasks so they do not get bored.
Variety is the key and with the very young, lots of short, simple, activities are best suited to their attention span. Keep your learning aims very simple and build in plenty of child-friendly practice tasks to allow them to practice your target language again and again.
For the practice tasks, think of the things children like doing anyway and incorporate theses activities into lessons. These could be singing, coloring, or working in small groups to produce a poster, for example. Use children's love of rhyming and chanting to teach such things as numbers and the alphabet. The great thing about really young ones (say 4-12 years old) is that they are generally less inhibited about using another language and so you can get them to speak quite early on.
Full Article on our site
Louisa Walsh of Global English offers some guidance
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| MORE Free Storybooks |
Our sampler ESL storybooks has been so popular, that we have decided to offer MORE storybooks on a 30-day trial version.
Here are the URLs to download. You can download as many or as few as you like and see which ones fit with your students.
Mystery of the Stolen Money
The teens witness a robbery at the dude ranch. Join the fun as they track down the robbers!
Permian Times
The kids are transported back to the Permian pre-historic period, where they meet wizards, monsters and more!
Mystery of the Secret Code
Join the teens on Gold Island as they search for pirates treasure.
Trixie's Secret
Where is Mara's dog Trixie? Join the teens as they search for Trixie and discover Trixie's secret. Features Asian children.
Jambo Goes to the Moon
Jambo the chimp is taken away from his home in Africa. He must use his very good brain to find a way home!
Jambo's Encounter with Robots
Jambo wakes up in the Robot City. Join Jambo the chimp as he uses his very good brain to escape!
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| Learning English |
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Module 1 (Beginners) has been adapted and is now available (30-day free trial) for everyone to try out.
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| ESL School Finder |
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