Teaching a Child English

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Teach English Teachers vary considerably in their views on whether they should use their own language while teaching English. There is ...

Thursday, April 17, 2014

The purposes of teacher talk in the language classroom

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pupil interaction Teachers do a lot of talking in classrooms. They often get criticized for this because they are not giving pupils en...

Choosing suitable pair- or groupwork tasks

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Group Work Not all tasks are suitable for pair- or groupwork. For example, children can be seated in groups reading books but working i...

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Introducing children to pair- and groupwork activities

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Group Work Most modern primary English textbooks tell teachers to use pair- and group work because of the opportunity this offers for i...

Organizing pupils for language learning in pairs and groups

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Group Work Warm and friendly teacher-pupil relationships and a happy, secure working atmosphere are very important to promote learning,...

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Developing teachers self-esteem

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Developing teachers self-esteem The way we feel about ourselves will affect the way we feel about others around us and the way they fee...

Developing pupils' self-esteem

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Developing pupils' self-esteem Feeling secure is important for learning, but not sufficient, as this story is designed to show. ...

Ways of developing a positive classroom atmosphere

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positive classroom atmosphere In our own lives, we are affected by the atmosphere in which we work and the way people behave towards us...

What kind of teacher do pupils think you should be?

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Ideal Teacher If we ask pupils what they expect from teachers we may be surprised by what they say. Magaly, a Spanish primary teac...

What kind of classroom manager do you want to be?

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classroom manager What are the qualities needed to manage a class effectively, Here is an activity adapted from a book on classroom man...

Managing pupils, language learning

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Managing pupils One of the mam ways in which children learn languages in the classroom is through taking part in activities. But this ...

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Strategies for responding to different needs

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Strategies for responding to different needs Most teachers agree about the need to have high expectations of each pupil and to try to ...

How can we avoid labeling children?

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What do labels tell us? How can we avoid labeling children? If we take children's current level of achievement as a starting poi...

Teachers, expectations of pupils

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Teachers, expectations of pupils As teachers we all have expectations of our pupils just as pupils have expectations of us as teachers...

Challenges and ways of meeting these in mixed ability teaching

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Challenges and ways of meeting these in mixed ability teaching Many teachers find that catering for differences in learning needs is ...

How different are children?

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How different are children? Describe four children in one of your classes in a similar way to Nino's descriptions above What are ...

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Children come in all types

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Children come in all types Nino, a primary teacher, is describing some of his pupils: Mario can't sit still or concentrate. He e...

Ways of developing positive attitudes towards English

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A Child with Positive Attitude I asked a group of primary teachers in Hong Kong to tell me their mam problems in teaching English. The...

Friday, April 4, 2014

Finding out about pupils attitudes

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pupils attitudes We have just looked at pupils' feelings and the factors that influence them . Now we will consider teachers view...

Differences in attitudes between age groups

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What factors are likely to influence the attitudes of younger children aged six to ten? Compare the attitudes of a group of Spanish pupils...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Pupils' attitudes to learning English

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Do you like learning English? What are some of the things your pupils say about learning English? In your opinion, what are the most im...

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