Effective Humanistic Approach

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Since there has been the institution of teaching language, there has been speculation on how to effectively impart information to the pupil. The focus of this account will emphasis effective English as a Foreign Language, or EFL approaches and lessons. Contemporary study of EFL has broken down effective teaching into a multi skilled approach to teach another language. By applying these skills to in-class activities, much can be learned about effective teaching. By constructing specialized activities to incorporate this approach of multi-faceted learning skills, the result will be an applicable teaching method. This essay will look at how applying different learning skills to EFL classroom activities, may add insight to effective future classroom…show more content…
The value of considering teaching approaches is it will help structure the lesson around a coherent assembly of activities. The main topic of the lesson that was apt was on Cultural Awareness. Being that this is a more intangible concept compared to grammar or vocabulary, a clear teaching approach will benefit the abstract nature of the topic. The teaching approach selected for this topic was the Effective Humanistic Approach, which stresses, “respect, communication, self-actualization, and a comfortable classroom atmosphere”. (Teaching Approaches. p.119-120) The reason this approach lends itself to the topic so well is that many themes in the Effective Humanistic Approach are similar to the idea of Cultural Awareness. The idea was to structure the lesson around values and benefits of Cultural Awareness, like openness, communication, and a positive air in the classroom. The lesson was able to find its corresponding approach, which helped organize effective EFL…show more content…
The text was Chinese Business Manners & Cultural, which listed four important situations that aid the reader in being more culturally aware of differences in Chinese to western business practices. (Doing Business in China. 2018) The students listened to each situation on how to behave in a Chinese business meeting. After the class had listened to the different situations, they had to employ their comprehension of the different situations for a “true or false” questionnaire. The activity used the Global Listening approach, which incorporates determining level of formality”. (Language Skills: Listening. p.138-140) This skill uses useful for understanding the universal use of tone and vocabulary that shows the formality of a text or dialogue. Additionally, the activity’s main point was to determine the usefulness of understanding a different cultures formality by an authentic text, therefore having a twofold approach to language skills. The students ease of understanding and completing the activity showed a sign of
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