Teach English in GuAnghua Jiedao - Shantou Shi

Teachers of English language learners are varied and different. What type of teaching one does depends on their company, environment, and personality. roles of a teacher include: instructor, facilitator, mentor, psychologist, counselor, policeman etc... Teachers have varied assigned duties including many unwritten rules that they are expected to follow. There are many different kinds of learners, who have different motivations, and different levels of financial investment. Teaching adults has many advantages. These include, maturity, attention span, and higher motivation levels. disadvantages include: internal pressure, self-consciousness, sometimes lesson must be at odd hours, and work time conflicts. one to one teaching advantages: personal attention for the student, easy selection of material, work at the student's pace, easier evaluation disadvantages include: no peer interaction, not as many teaching resources, one student does all of the work, personality differences are accentuated. Most disadvantages can be overcome with hard work, and creativity from the teacher. When teaching in groups the lowest level must always be involved. use graded activities for different levels. vary the level of students within groups so that the lower levels can learn from the higher levels. It is important to contextualize and link language skills to work. listening-meeting, and telephoning reading mail, memos, business publications speaking-telephoning, messaging, presentations. Writing- mail, meetings, presentation, reports, notes and messages. Theories of teaching: Grammar Translation, audio lingualism, The Silent Way, Task-Based Learning, ESA and PPP