Hi !!!
"TUESDAY"
21st February, 2017
Today I learned about factors affecting English language teaching and learning in higher education from teacher. There are three factors; students, teachers, and learning environment.
For the the students, there are about age, learner differences, learner level, and motivation.
About age, there are young children, adolescents, and adult. The first is young children, they would like to respond to meaning, learn indirectly, understanding comes from what they see/hear, need to individual attention, and they have short attention and keen to talk about themselves so teachers should provide various of activities.The second is adolescents. They have discipline problems, like challenges, less motivate, need approval and individual identity. And the last is adult learners. The learners of this group, they have objectives for studying so they are pay attention to learn. In addition, they have experiences in their lives so they will analysis methodology of teachers (western) , and they sustain motivation so teachers should provide the activities that contribute to their experiences by emphasis analysis, creative, and solving problems.
Next, learner differences, there are aptitude, good learner characteristics, learner styles, language levels, and individual variations. Aptitude is ability that learner have since they born.
Good learner characteristics, learner will prepare to study, pay attention, review lesson, and understand about objectives of lesson).
Learner styles, learners have differences about styles of learning such as:
(Tony Wright): - enthusiast, oracular, participator, rebel.
(Kieth Willing):
- independent, confident, analytic, converges, conformist, concrete learners, prefer to learning about language over learning to use it; depend on authority and happy to work in non-communicative classroom, doing what they are told, prefer to see well-organised teachers.
- concrete learners: though they are like conformists, they also enjoy social aspects of learning to learn from direct experience; interest in language use as communicative, enjoy games and group work.
- communicative learner: language use oriented; interested in social interaction; confident and willing to take risks.
Language levels
- Advanced
- Upper-intermediate
- Mid-intermediate
- Lower-intermediate/pre-intermediate
- Elementary
- Beginner
(Teachers have to use methods, language, and topics suitable for each level).
Finally is motivation, there are defining and sources. The defining has extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation.
For the teacher, there are four topics.
- Teacher's beliefs
- Teacher's ability in using English
- Teacher's methods and styles
- Teacher's use of teaching & learning materials
And the last is learning environment but time is up so we didn't learn about this topic.
Today there are many things that difficult because there are new vocabulary I didn't know the meaning but I understood the lesson quite well.
Thankful!!
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