The great experience of teaching.

Hi everyone. I will really enjoy sharing with you the insights and experiences I gain during this learning process.

  Teaching is a source of great satisfaction. We make a great deal of effort to seek and acquire all the possible knowledge we can with the goal of teaching it to others so they can improve their lives. As teachers we need to remember that the student is the center of the experience; we are there to help them, support and improve their strengths, and shape or reduce their weaknesses to their benefit. For some students, the L2 acquisition can be an extensive and challenging process, but for others, it can be a short and a hassle-free one. However, every student can reach the main goal of acquiring the knowledge necessary to handle the language. The L2 learners must receive comprehensible input according to their proficiency level, and teachers must incorporate new concepts step by step, allowing students to be responsible for their own learning. Teachers can give them opportunities to develop their skills not only in classroom but also outside of it, where the most part of the language acquisition process takes place. Assigning assessment activities that are outside the classroom, and asking for a report on what they learned will increase students’ motivation and improve their capacity to be seekers of new knowledge. One of the most challenging goals I want to reach is to create a non-threatening environment where students can feel that I am there to help them. This will reduce the anxiety level characteristic in the language acquisition process, and will help them to keep motivation, a necessary quality in any learning process. To reach these goals, students must receive encouragement, assessment activities according to their proficiency level, real-world experiences, well-defined lesson objectives, and a teacher who knows them individually. As teachers, we need to achieve a balance as we teach the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) so that the students can know the target language from all its facets. I would like to improve the way I teach speaking skills because, for L2 learners, it is one of the most challenging facets due to the affective filters that they must learn to deal with.   9