domingo, 6 de octubre de 2013

TEACHING ACROSS PROFICIENCY LEVELS

Levels can be defined in three such as beginning, intermediate, and advanced. Now, teachers have some guidelines, which are useful to develop the topics and the tasks for every level because teachers have to organized what they are going to teach and evaluate. Teachers cannot teach beginners something that is for intermediate level because students are not going to understand the topic.

Basic level: in the first day students are vey dependent on the teacher for models of language, the teacher is like the center of the classroom because students are focused in what he says. The teacher has to articulate his English and very important to speak slowly for an easier comprehension. Teacher can use techniques, but those techniques should be short and simple.


Intermediate level: students have developed some of their abilities of learning the target language, so the teacher has to apply different teaching methods in the class. Teacher has to dare students ask questions; make comments during the class to their own learning. The teacher is able to use more advanced word according to the level.


Advanced level: students have developed not only their reading and listening comprehension but also their fluency in speaking. Techniques can be like group debates and argumentation, complex role-plays, scanning and skimming reading material. 

TEACHING ACROSS AGE LEVELS

We have to know the way and what are we going to teach to our learners because we cannot teach something that is understandable for students because of their ages and level. We have to look for a correct way to teach in every level. We have to consider that teaching children is not the same as teaching teens, there are many different things. that a teacher has to take in count to develop the class.
Teaching children: it is more difficult because you have to take in count the way that they act and what they interested in. You have to apply some especial techniques in the classroom to develop the topic. To teach children a second language requires specifics skills and intuitions, which are intellectual development, sensory input, and affective factors. Those categories may help to teaching children.

Teaching teens: You have to consider the ages range (12-18) and that all of the rules of adult teaching sometimes apply. Teens are an age of transition, growing, changing bodies and minds, their opinions and thoughts are very different. This is a challenge for the teacher.