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LINGUISTICS & CULTURE
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LINGUISTICS & CULTURE
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PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
| Autor: | Dale |
| E-mail: | não-disponível |
| Data: | 09/JAN/2005 9:43 PM |
| Assunto: | Re: To Teachers!!! |
| Mensagem: | I believe a teacher should speak in the classroom as much of the language he is teaching as possible. However...there is a limit. When this policy interferes with the students' ability to learn, then the language of the student should be used. All-English classes are great if the students are at a level to handle it. At beginning levels, it probably does more harm than good. Students cannot get explanations they understand, students get frustrated (Boy, am I stupid!), and learning stops being fun. Before someone gives me a lecture about classes are for learning and not for fun, let me say that you can achieve both. Students should look forward to going to class, not see it as something to avoid. When I was 17, I attended a Japanese school. Maybe 5 out of the 300 or more students were Americans. Few teachers had more than a passing knowledge of English. I'll never forget trying to ask a teacher if there was a difference in Japanese between "to drop" and "to fall". I had to use a pencil, dropping onto a table and then letting it fall off the table. Ridiculous. It was usually useless to ask other students because they often did not understand either. Oddly, in the higher levels of Japanese, the the teachers often spoke English well. I do not regret the experience. We need to remember what it was like to be students. -- Dale |
English Made in Brazil -- English, Portuguese, & contrastive linguistics
To Teachers!!! – Márcio 
09/JAN/2005, 6:34 PM 
Re: To Teachers!!! – Dale 09/JAN/2005, 9:43 PM Re: To Teachers!!! – José Roberto 10/JAN/2005, 9:16 AM Re: To Teachers!!! – mello 13/JAN/2005, 8:19 PM Re: To Teachers!!! – Ron 10/JAN/2005, 8:52 PM