Questions tagged [teaching]
Questions about how to teach a language to another person.
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Is there research into language teachers getting comments from students on their appearance?
Sometimes I encounter in online or in-person Chinese classes, students who comment on their teachers appearance. Typically it's a female teacher, and the student will say something like 她很美丽 or 她很漂亮 (...
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What topics should I have knowledge of when teaching ESL?
I am someone who's been learning English as a second language from a very young age, through consuming A LOT of American media, as a result, I grew up to be very fluent in it, and because I pretty ...
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Do students who have had both native and non-native language tutors say the non-native tutor is better?
Almost anyone who had a native speaker and a non-native speaker as tutor says the non-native speaker was better.
Reddit user Theevildothatido, 23 July 2023. (score 294)
A curious claim! It was ...
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Do native speaker teachers who have learnt a second language teach better?
Suppose there are two groups of teachers of a language, all native speakers. One group has the experience of learning a second language and the another group doesn't. Is there research that studied ...
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What is the difference between Masters in TESOL and a level-5 TEFL certificate?
I mean, I know that one of them is a university degree and requires the student to have a bachelor's degree; another is a certificate course which anyone can take up as long as he has a C1 level of ...
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Teaching Methods
What are the features, pros and cons, and procedures of the different methods of teaching language, such as direct method, grammar-translation, task-based, and audiolingualism, etc?
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What research is there on the effectiveness of teaching languages without explicit grammar instruction, compared to other teaching methods?
I found that learning a language without explicit grammar instruction works very well (for me at least, and a few other people I know). The people that I have seen being taught in this way seem to ...
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How to explain certain grammar constructs to ESL students
How do I explain to someone whose first language is not English the following concept:
If I want to ask you about something, the phrase is "How does it work?"
If I am about to explain how ...
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How to help a beginner with speaking?
I am going to help a student with speaking in my native language who is at beginner level.
How would we have the conversation such that the student can take the most out of it?
Some points I made up ...
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Usefulness of Literacy concept in Language Learning and Teaching
I have been struggling with literacy, both as a concept and theory.
The literature on literacy is very broad, it seems quite all-encompassing, so I am struggling to make sense of literacy in any ...
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What is a weekly lesson plan?
What is a Weekly Lesson Plan?
The context in Poland, Young Learners of Grade-3. ESL.
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What are the components of a language lesson?
What I understand is, language teaching has two aims:
Skills [Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening] development
Linguistic competence development
So, each language lesson should cover at least ...
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What are the components of English Language teaching?
As far as I understand teaching English means:
Teaching how to listen in English
Teaching how to speak in English
Teaching how to read in English
Teaching how to write in English
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The greatness of a teacher lies in respecting the child [closed]
The greatness of a teacher lies in respecting the child
I think the concept of Emerson's is similar to the concept of the present teaching scenorio which claims that learnimng is ...
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Is the core of teaching a second language like English intelligibility or native like fluency? [closed]
I think the core of teaching English as second language should be intelligibility but not native like fluency.
This is not just my personal opinion but it is the opinion of
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Is the use of mother-tongue in the English class a boon or a bane?
I teach English in a government school where the medium of instruction is both English and the regional medium Telugu. The slow learners opt for Telugu medium and they are not able to follow my ...
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According to research, should related words be taught together?
On this site, we already have a question about learning related words together (or not) as an autonomous learner using a spaced repetition system. At the time of writing, that question does not have ...
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Are there any methods for teaching English as a "means" not an "end"?
What I mean by such a method, is when the purpose of teaching is not to teach English but to use English to teach something else. Something (let us assume) student is genuinely interested in, and is ...
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What types of resources can a native speaker of Dutch use to teach Dutch grammar to non-native speakers?
Most native speakers aren't linguists, so they may get stumped when non-native speakers ask them grammar questions. So what types of resources can a native speaker of Dutch use to teach Dutch grammar ...
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Teaching syllables to three and half year old
Our Finnish child knows the letters by name. Also, when hearing the sounds the letter makes, they almost always can name the letter associated to the sound. They has not figured out how syllables work,...
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Teaching a foreign language resources - The Direct Approach (or Method)
Two friends have told me they want to learn to speak Italian and are interested in paying me to teach them. I have an illness that makes it hard for me to work so I need to find a way to earn some ...
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What can teachers do to promote or increase mastery of 把 structures in Standard Chinese?
Each lesson in the Chinese series of texbooks New Practical Chinese Reader contains a section entitled "Master the following phrases". Below are a few examples from lesson 16 (in volume 2):
现在就去 - ...
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Standardized Phonemes and Pronunciation
I want to start from the most fundamental and hard problem to me (and maybe to everyone).
Two years ago, I had started a project to teach English to non-natives only in English.
Before, lots of them ...
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Teaching the Present Continuous before the Simple Present?
What would be the pros and cons of teaching the Present Continuous before the Simple Present of main verbs?
As every teacher and foreign learner of English knows, courses and course books usually ...
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How many words are usually taught per chapter in a textbook
I'm building a language learning app for children in 9th to 12th grade and am collecting the metrics I'll need to test its effectiveness.
I'm going to be doing another round of beta testing at local ...
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If someone gets a phrase correct, how many more times should they practice it?
I am creating a language curriculum for Standard Chinese (none exist in my area). If someone gets a question/phrase/word incorrect, for example a phrase from a module on greetings, they should ...
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How can English language teaching research be more relevant to teachers?
I have been teaching English as a foreign language for nearly 40 years, the last thirty-one years at universities in Japan. I have researched and published on a range of topics that include "the ...
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Practice AP and WebCAPE Exams and study guides
I'm creating a language teaching curriculum which will follow ACTFL and World Readiness Standard guidelines.
My end goal is for students to pass the US domestic AP exam (with a 4 or better) and/or a ...
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What is a good way to explain the concept of declension to a person whose native language has no declension?
I'm Polish native speaker. The Polish language has a noun declension similar to Latin, so it is rather easy for me to understand that nouns or articles change their form. But sometimes I'm having ...
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WebCAPE vs AP Exams for domestic prep
I am going to be teaching a foreign language in some capacity and am not sure if I should teach to prep for the WebCAPE exams or Advanced Placement exams from CollegeBoard.
I'll be following ACTFL ...
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required standards for US domestic foreign language education
In reference to my earlier post, I'm going to be teaching foreign languages in some capacity and was advised by a board of education that I ought to understand and incorporate foreign language edu. ...
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For teachers : Improving oral communication skills in a language by identifying weak areas
How often can you improve oral communication skills in a language where you have some level quickly by identifying weak areas and working of them? (This could be the past tense or the most important ...
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Grading vocabulary: How correct is necessary?
When grading vocabulary (either in a traditional classroom/test environment, or spaced repetition), is there any research into how to most effectively grade responses?
Examples of possible answers (...
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Research on effectiveness of language teaching in ulpans / ulpanim?
After the creation of Israel in 1948, ulpans (or ulpanim) were set up for the intensive study of Hebrew. Today, ulpans still exist; they are institutes or schools "designed to teach adult immigrants ...
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How can lay teachers help migrants learn a new language?
Due to the increasing number of migrants and refugees (e.g. over 1 million refugees in Europe in 2015), there is a higher need for people who can teach their language to migrants. This raises two ...
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Explaining the difference between 'very' and 'too' to native Chinese speakers
The Indo-European languages that I know (Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish) all make a distinction between "too" (meaning "to a higher degree than is desirable, acceptable or allowed") and "very"...
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Explain contemporary high-school language teaching to me [closed]
I do appreciate the answer to this question varies on where you are in the world but I'm happy to hear of different approaches from different countries. I'd be particularly interested in responses ...
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How can I best use my time when teaching young EFL learners during a very short class period?
I have been teaching private English classes for over a year now, and one of these classes happens to be for two Japanese children, 7 and 9, who have no prior English knowledge. Their father asks them ...
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How can I teach someone how to roll their r's?
The sound I'm referring to is the alveolar trill (/r/), as found in Spanish word "carro", though that is just an example in one language.
I learned how to make this sound by making positioning my ...
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How can I teach someone to pronounce phonemes non-existent in their native language?
As I learned other languages I realized that some phonemes which are common in one language are not so familiar in others. There are even cases where some phonemes do not exist in other specific ...
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What is the efficiency of the flipped classroom when teaching to beginners?
The flipped classroom concept started in the US and is gaining ground worldwide in secondary and primary education. The basic idea is that the learner is expected to learn the core of the lesson by ...
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How can I help a language student overcome the "mental block" to learn?
Many first time second language students feel that learning a new language is indescribably hard. Many have a "mental block" of sorts that prevents them from remembering new vocabulary, or even "...
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