Assessed Assignment 2: Focus on the learner Muftah‚ married with four children‚ is a pleasant student who is struggling in class. Muftah did not receive any English in secondary school or university. He worked as a Physical Education teacher for two years‚ and then was employed with the Ministry of Youth and Sports for twenty years. In his years of employment‚ Muftah never needed to speak or write in English until about two years ago‚ when he started attending International House. He says that
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Focus on the Learner Learner Characteristics Learner characteristics are difference between learners which influence their attitude to learning a language and how they learn it. These differences influence how they respond to different teaching styles and approaches in the classroom and how successful they are at learning a language. The differences include the learner’s motivation‚ personality‚ language level‚ learning style‚ learning strategies‚ age and past language learning experience. Learning
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Assignment 2: focus on the learner 1- Background to the learner: My student is called Samir Salem Abdullah Al-Ahsani. He is an Omani student working as an employee in the Bouhelba Company. He speaks Arabic which is his mother tongue and a little English. He’s at the elementary level at Polyglot Institute. He first studied English in the Omani public schools where he didn’t learn much according to him. He felt he couldn’t respond ‚when talked to in English‚ and needs to improve his speaking
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Focus on the Learner Each teacher must deal with a class - a group of individuals with different needs often growing out of their different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. ESL students have widely different needs‚ because of differences in cultural background‚ age‚ and previous education. Even if the students in one class are all from the same language group‚ they inevitably have different learning styles and needs. It means‚ that the teacher needs to be aware of the difficulties involved in
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Focus on the Learners A. The Intermediate level students have different backgrounds‚ learning experiences‚ and learning styles‚ but they find some common ground in the learning styles preferred‚ the parts of speech to be corrected‚ and the skills to be developed. The class is composed of 11 students who fall within the age range of 17 to 43 years. The group diversity also extends to their nationalities: five Thais‚ two Sri Lankans‚ two Pakistanis‚ one Japanese‚ and one Korean. The students with
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Write an essay explaining why you want to take CELTA course and why you feel you would be a successful English teacher. I have decided to take the CELTA course because I believe it will make me a better teacher‚ taking into account not only all the great testimonies I have heard‚ but also the improvement of my colleagues’ performance after taking it.. Although I have been teaching for a long time‚ I feel like doing the same thing probably in an old fashioned way. I’m almost
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First Essay: “Focus on this Learner” Rita Karen Law Trainer: Mr. Meza August 6‚ 2013 First Essay: “Focus on the Learner” A unique human ability is to be able to create and use language to communicate to each other. Humans learn their culture through communication using their linguistic competence and performance. In an article written by Elwyn C. Lapoint‚ “Cultural Content in Introductory Linguistics” he states that “This holistic view
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ASSIGNMENT 2 FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Background - Life and learning styles Initially when I started observing the students in our Elementary class‚ I had a few choices but the one that stood out to me‚ I think‚ has such an interesting story to tell for her few years that she’s been on this earth. I interviewed Rine M.‚ a 23 year old Management from the DRC (Democratique Republic of Congo)‚ in the Elementary English Class. Rine‚ who has a degree in Marketing‚ has been in Durban for the past
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS 1. The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow Form Present simple for future time The definite article + subject + verb in present simple tense + preposition + time marker Anticipated learner problems Students may add –ing to the verb as they may get confused by the fact that even though the verb is present simple‚ we are referring to a future event. Concept check questions Is he going today or is he going tomorrow? Is this about
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CAMBRIDGE CELTA Assignment 3 Receptive Skill Krishna Bahadur Bohora 1/7/2014 Assignment 3 I have selected a news article from an online entry of Telegraph Media Group Limited for ’Authentic Material for Reading’. The title of the text is ’Cyclist trapped under car for 30 minutes escapes with just cuts and bruises’. The text is selected for the learners of mid-intermediate level. The learners of this level have some knowledge of complex sentence structures and vocabulary
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