Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lesson planning
- different levels
- beginners
- complete beginners are very rare - "false beginners"
- start with clean sheet
- lots of enthusiasm
- no previously learned bad habits
- often homogenous group
- easily discouraged
- little experience to draw from
- make incorrect assumptions
- may disappear from class
- not always able to express true needs
- intermediate
- most common
- have a basis to build apon
- can express attitude towards teacher and course
- maybe stuck on "plateau"
- can be "know it alls"
- confuse familiarity with structures and lexis with mastery
- bring learning habits to class
- broad category
- Advance
- cope with wide range of activities
- may feel they have nothing to learn
- able to fully express abstract ideas and move in concrete domain
- can be a problem with mixed levels
- may not accept language presentation
- may require streaming and individual attention
- classes
- Monolingual
- all share the same mother tongue
- teacher can speak L1
- can discourage use of L2
- errors and mistakes will be fairly similar
- errors can be reinforced - especially pronunciation
- Multilingual
- travel to learn english
- join companies that use english
- communication will be in English
- scope for communicative actives and to share cultural information
- teacher might have less opportunity to focus on particular nationalities pronunciation or other problem areas
- one on one
- often learning Business English
- particular requirements
- intensive short course to fit into their schedule
- most rewarding/highest paid
- EFL
- learn L2 initially to survive
- then to integrate more fully into host community
- ESP
- English for special Purposes
- medical/ technical
- groupwork
- essential in most lessons
- increase talking time for learners
- gives genuine reason to use L2
- provides valuable practise
- teacher can asses and plan for future lessons
- organising
- different nationalities together
- strong with weak
- teacher must know personalities of learners
- choose randomly
- pair for sake of harmony
- "share" difficult learner
- grammar pairings
- promote need for communication