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This is an invitation for all non-native speakers of English in this forum to post their questions about English language. People with good English, that doesn't include me:), can reply with answeres, corrections or suggestions. Short tutorials would be a good idea. Some ideas for tutorials: common expressions and phrases that are useful for writing in our forum common errors in using prepositions explaining some useful idioms Actually I can post the first question here which really irritates me: What's the rule for capitalizing headlines? I'm not even sure that I got the capitalization for the title of this topic right. I'm looking forwared to your contributions here.

As a language teacher I find myself in different teaching situations depending on the nationalities of my students. Sometimes I teach a group of students who all have the same native language which is different from teaching a multilingual group. I’ll compare the two situations from different angles. Linguistic difficulties Monolingual Group: You can predict and focus on specific linguistic difficulties, e.g. grammar, vocabulary, individual sound problems. Multilingual Group: You have to meet a variety of very different linguistic needs. For example, pronunciation problems are often specific to different nationalities. Language of Instructions Monolingual Group: It might be the case that the teacher has the same native language as the students, or at least knows a bit of it. Here the teacher will be able to use translation as an option. Most modern language teaching methods don’t encourage the use of translation in class. Multilingual Group: Even if teachers are familiar with the native language of some of the learners, they need to be able to convey information to the whole class and can use the language that they teach, the foreign language from a stand point of students. Cultural exchange Monolingual Group: If the teachers are not from the same culture as the learners -then they can exploit this as a source of cultural exchange Multilingual Group: Often the learners come form a wide range of countries and cultures, and there is a high level of interest in this which opens up good opportunities for cultural exchange. Motivation Monolingual Group: Within the classroom the motivation to use the foreign language may be lower. Multilingual Group: The learners need to cope using the foreign language in the classroom and, if in the target language community, to manage outside the classroom using the language that they learn

If you don't like to spend much time with a class of little kids simply don't consider teaching young learners. If you enjoy their company then you'll naturally fit in and they'll most probably enjoy your teaching. Learning from experienced teachers in the field, here are some tips for effective teaching that I would like to share with you.With young learners you need to be punctual so that the learners are not left alone. Also, you will need to be organized and have a well-planned lesson. It’s essential because particularly with that age group you need to be in control of the class at all times and get them engaged in learning activities. That helps you maintain discipline. The worst thing is to have your students with nothing to do but teasing each other or making trouble and noise.Exploit your students’ knowledge of the world, interests and experience. It's important. Try to find out what your students are interested in and feed the content of your lessons with topics and activities that meet their interest. Watch them while they’re on the internet and find out what they like to do and talk about.Be yourself, be natural but keep a measured distance of respect. Respect is always important, to achieve that you will need to decide on and enforce clear ground rules. Keeping that in mind, you’ll need to strike a balance between humor and seriousness. If you're serious all the time your students will never relax and most probably will be intimidated by your presence.You need to consider each student’s needs and abilities. Some students will like activities that involve motor skills more than others so they will participate in certain activities while others will prefer to observe. You will need to plan how to occupy hose observers by assigning them appropriate roles such as voting for the best performance. That should motivate those observers to take more active part in future activities

Just imagine that you hear these comments in the staff room from some language teachers. What might have been the cause of these problems? Sometimes when students leave the classroom I find myself wondering?I wonder what they actually learned in the last 50 minutes. I never seem to finish on time, I either run out of material or I can't fit everything in. I was going to do a really good reading but they got so involved with all the words they didn't know the whole thing broke down and took ages. When none of them could answer me I suddenly realised they should discuss it in groups of three before giving their answers. I gave that really good lesson on the past perfect this time last year. I wish I could remember how it went. It's only half way through the third term and I'm about to finish the book! What can I do now? I wish I didn't have to share this group with another teacher. I wonder what she did with them last Tuesday. Some students complained that I don't seem to plan my lessons? What a cheek. How do they know what I do or don't do! That lesson was a load of rubbish. I wonder what went wrong?

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