How to teach English by So-Hee Moon (Alice)

December 17, 2008 · Filed under About Me

 

How to teach English by So-Hee Moon (Alice) 

 

1. How to be a good teacher?

The teacher should love and responsible for the job and for the students. He should be someone who has positive mind and has lots of knowledge not only specific subject. He should talk to the students with moderate yet powerful voice and must be flexible enough to cope with every situation which she deals. The teacher should give instruction which is simple and logical.

 

2. How to be a good learner

To be a good learner, he should love his subject and teacher. He should not just wait to be taught but should take responsibility for his own learning.

 

3. How to manage teaching and learning

The teacher’s physical presence and the way the teacher act play a large part in the classroom environment. The teacher should tell the students lesson and goal. The teacher should encourage students to say what they feel about the lesson.

 

4. How to describe learning and teaching

One type of teaching sequence takes students in a straight line: first the teacher gets the class interested and Engaged, then they Study something and they then try to Activate it by putting it into production.

 

5. How to describe language

Both student and teacher need to know how to talk about language various points during learning and teaching. The teacher should know how to explain and should also know what is going wrong where and how to correct.

 

6. How to teach language

The teacher should let the students to be exposed, to understand its meaning or form and to practice. The teacher should know when to correct to help students to clarify their understanding of the meaning and construction of language.

 

7. How to teach reading

Before reading a text, the teacher should check if the topics and the types of reading text are ok for the students. The important reason for teaching reading is to have opportunities to study language: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and the way we construct sentences, paragraphs and texts. Stimulate discussion, excite imaginative responses and be the springboard for well-rounded, fascinating lessons.

 

8. How to teach writing

Handwriting is a very personal matter but teacher should insist on neatness and legibility. The teacher should avoid the over-correction but should tell them the particular tips like punctuation, spelling, grammar, word order, etc.

 

9. How to teach speaking

Speaking lesson should come first before other lessons will be followed because by speaking, the teacher and the students could understand each other easily. Teacher could get involved but should not dominate first.

 

10. How to teach listening

The reasons for teaching English are to let the students hear and to help the students to acquire language subconsciously even if teacher does not draw attention to its special features.

 

11. How to use textbooks

Textbooks have many advantages. They have a consistent syllabus and vocabulary will have been chosen with care. But the teacher should choose appropriate textbooks because not all the textbooks are good to use.

 

12. How to plan lessons

Good lesson needs to contain a judicious blend of coherence and variety. The teacher should know: the students, what the teachers or students want to do, how the teacher or students is or are going to do, and what might go wrong or how the lesson fits in with lessons before and after it.

 

13. What if?

To rap up all, the teacher should be flexible enough to cope with every situation which she deals. And when there is a problem, he should not over-act but should think about the best solution.

 

How to teach English

 

1. How to be a good teacher?

The teacher should love and responsible for the job and for the students. He should be someone who has positive mind and has lots of knowledge not only specific subject. He should talk to the students with moderate yet powerful voice and should not only focus what she prepared but must be flexible enough to cope with every situation which she deals.

The teacher should give instruction which is simple and logical. Before he gives the instruction, he should think if the information is important or appropriate for the students.

 

2. How to be a good learner

Learning is a partnership between teacher and the student. To be a good learner, he should love his subject and teacher. He should not just wait to be taught but should take responsibility for his own learning.

There are five characteristics for good student; a willingness to listen, a willingness to experiment, a willingness to ask questions, a willingness to think about how to learn, and a willingness to accept correction.

 

3. How to manage teaching and learning

The teacher’s physical presence and the way the teacher act play a large part in the effective management for classroom environment, when the teacher arrives the classroom, he or she should tell the students what they will do using different kind of lesson and need to discuss what they are hoping to achieve. And to evaluate the lesson from the students is to ask the students simple questions and encourage students to say what they feel about the lesson.

There should be different seating arrangements time by time such as orderly rows, circle, horseshoe, and separate tables. There also should be different study groupings like whole class, group work, pair work, and solo work.

 

4. How to describe learning and teaching

Children and adults who do acquire language successfully outside classroom seem to share certain similarities in their learning experiences. Classroom students do not usually get the same kind of exposure or encouragement as those who – whatever age – are ‘picking up’ the language. But that does not mean they cannot learn a language if the right conditions apply. Like language learners outside schools, they will need to be motivated, be exposed to language, and given chances to use it.

One type of teaching sequence takes students in a straight line: first the teacher gets the class interested and Engaged, then they Study something and they then try to Activate it by putting it into production.

There have been some traditional language learning techniques that have been used for many years. They are Translation, Audio-Lingualism, PPP, Task-Based Learning, and Communication Language Teaching.

 

5. How to describe language

Both student and teacher need to know how to talk about language various points during learning and teaching. The teacher should know how to explain and should also know what is going wrong where and how to correct.

In order to be able to talk about language, the teacher and the student should know how to describe the various elements like the sentence constructions, parts of speech, forms and meanings, language functions, collocations, speaking and writing, and pronunciation.

 

6. How to teach language

There are four things for student to do with ‘new’ language: be exposed to it, understand its meaning, understand its form or how it is constructed, and practice it.

In a classroom, a major part of the teacher’s job is to expose students’ language so that they should use it. Some of the ways of helping students to understand the meaning is to teach with simple concepts by showing objects, pictures, drawings, gesture, and expression. And to teach the abstract concept is to check from the computer website or from the dictionary. Whenever the teacher gives them the information or whether they work it out for themselves, they need to comprehend the constituent sounds, syllables, words and phrases of the new language.

All students make mistakes at various stage of their language learning. So the teacher should point out for the correction which helps students to clarify their understanding of the meaning and construction of language.

 

7. How to teach reading

The important reason for teaching reading is to have opportunities to study language: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and the way we construct sentences, paragraphs and texts. Stimulate discussion, excite imaginative responses and be the springboard for well-rounded, fascinating lessons.

Before reading a text, the teacher should check if the topics and the types of reading text are ok for the students and should teach them when to use scan, skim, reading for pleasure, and detailed comprehend a book.

There are five principles for teaching reading: reading is not passive skill, students need to be engaged with what they are reading, students should not just to encourage the language but should be encouraged to respond to the content of a reading text, prediction is a major factor in reading, and match the task to the topic.

 

8. How to teach writing

Handwriting is a very personal matter but teacher should insist on neatness and legibility. The reasons for teaching writing to students of English include reinforcement, language development, learning style and writing as a skill in its own right. Like many other aspects of English language teaching, the type of writing we get students to do will depend on their age, interests and level. Another factor which can determine our choice of writing task is the students’ interests.

The teacher should avoid the over-correction but should tell them the particular tips like punctuation, spelling, grammar, word order, etc.

 

9. How to teach speaking

Speaking activities may well from one part of a much longer sequence which includes reading or listening and, after the activity. The students are using any and all the language at their command to perform some kind of oral task. Rehearsal, feedback, and engagement are the good basic reasons which give students to provoke them to use all and any language at their command.

There’s nothing wrong with teachers getting involved but should provide that they do not start to dominate. Teachers will have to intervene in some way if the activity is not going smoothly. And as with any kind of correction, it is important not to single students out for particular criticism. Many teachers deal with the mistakes they heard without saying who made them.

 

10. How to teach listening

The reasons for teaching English are to let the students hear not only teachers own idiosyncrasies but also different varieties and accents, and to help the students to acquire language subconsciously even if teacher does not draw attention to its special features.

There are six principles namely: the tape recorder is just as important as the tape, preparation is vital, once will not be enough, students should not just to the language but should be encouraged to respond to the content of a listening, different listening stages demand different listening tasks, and good teachers exploit listening texts to the full.

 

11. How to use textbooks

Textbooks have many advantages. They have a consistent syllabus and vocabulary will have been chosen with care. Good textbooks have a range of reading and listening material and workbooks to back them up. They have dependable teaching sequences and, at the very least, they offer teachers something to fall back on when they run out of ideas of their own.

But the teacher should choose appropriate textbooks because not all the textbooks are good to use. The teachers should try to follow four stage procedures such as analysis, piloting, consultation, and gathering opinions.

 

12. How to plan lessons

Good lesson need to contain a judicious blend of coherence and variety. Planning lesson helps teachers to think about there they are going and give them time to have ideas for tomorrow’s and next week’s lessons. In the classroom, a plan helps to remind teachers what they intended to do and also gives confidence.

The first thing such a written plan needs to detail is to know the students. The next thing the plan has to contain is what the teachers or students want to do. The third aspect of a plan will say how the teacher or students is or are going to do it. Lastly, the pan will talk about what might go wrong and how the lesson fits in with lessons before and after it.

 

13. What if?

If the students are all at different levels, then use different materials, do different tasks with the same material, or use the students to have pair work.

If the class is big to handle, the teacher should choose group leaders, use worksheet, pair work or group work, use chorus reaction, and think about vision and acoustics.

If the students are keeps on using their own language, the teacher should talk to then about the issues, encourage them to use English appropriately, respond to English users, create an English environment, and keep reminding them.

If the students are not cooperative, the teacher should talk to individuals, write to individuals, use activities, enlist help, and make a language-learning contract.

If the students do not want to talk, the teacher should use pair work, allow them to speak in a controlled way at first, use acting out and reading aloud, or use role-play.

If the students could not understand the listening tape, the teacher should use jigsaw listening, give one task only, play the fist segment only, use vocabulary prediction, and use the tape script.

And lastly, if some students already finished their work earlier, the teacher could give spare activities or let the others stop. But before he decides, he should think the right solution.