students and drive them towards a brighter future. A good teacher encourages independent thoughts and independent learning. He/she can be a positive influence, can be an inspiration to set and achieve goals. The trust and bond between a teacher and student creates the perfect learning environment; which can never be achieved through virtual learning. But,
English language is one of the most important communication tools in the world. Learning English is a necessary subject for all contexts of English as a second or foreign language due to its popularity and importance all over the universe. Also word acquisition and identification of words rapidly as a skill is a major correlate of reading (Nathan & Stanovich, 1991). So students’ success with sight word recognition is a critical part in their achievement as lifelong readers
and knowledge collaboratively for developing independent thoughts (Nicholson, 1999). Per se, it also strengthens Dewey’s notion of ‘directed living’ that students should draw from real life situations and engage in creativity and collaboration. This approach is more learner centered where learner autonomy is developed. Duerr (2008) explains that ‘’ students can become independent, confident individuals who ‘learn how to learn’ and develop lifelong learning skills”. Taylor (2008), declares that such
is the confidence it gives me. I've never had much self-esteem, but whenever I step onto a track my stress, anxiety, and fears all disappear. Track is where I have realized that my capabilities as a human are endless. Track has also taught me the importance of hard work. It is impossible to succeed if you don't give it your all. I learned this from the countless hours I spend at practice. “You can never practice too much” my coach always yells at me and My teammates, and I agree with her. You never
along with the allied educators and school leaders. The students look up to their teachers and see their teachers as role-models, guiding their actions and instilling the right values in them. It is of utmost importance for a teacher to behave professionally so as to enhance the learning experiences and teach values such as respect, responsibility, integrity, care, and harmony to the students in an effort to safeguard our cohesive and harmonious multi-racial and multi-cultural society. For example
of the world nowadays consider English language learning as an important asset to raise their knowledge in different branches of science and technology. Hence, a desire to learn English and communicate through this language is a pervasive phenomenon. Moreover, since English is the most dominant second/foreign language in non-English speaking countries, developing modern supporting learning approaches or tools that buttress effective English learning has been a vital issue in English language education
presumption that English is a complicated and difficult language. Most students consider English difficult and complicated, especially for beginners. If the submission of English material is less interesting, students will find it difficult to follow the learning from the teacher. 2. Students lack sympathy for teachers who teach English. In this case, if the teacher is less interesting and does not have many tricks to teach, the students will easily feel bored so that the interest of students to learn English
etc. So all these are enabling skills which are important in attain goal. • Subdivided independent and dependent enabling skills: Means subdivide the independent skills which are prerequisite actually and dependent skills which are depend on prerequisite. For example writing a sentence is a independent enabling skill and writing a paragraph is a dependent skill. • Arrange the sequence of dependent and independent skills in
Introduction Teaching vocabulary is a key factor when learning a foreign language. However, there are many teachers who do not teach vocabulary, or who just introduce it to students by repeating or reading it in the lesson. The main goals of my work are to emphasize the importance of teaching vocabulary and to introduce ways and techniques of presenting vocabulary in the classroom. The first section will define the meaning of vocabulary, and explain why it is essential for students to learn new
First of all, teachers need to put the students first and consider the learning outcomes that they want to achieve. These learning outcomes need to be specific so that later in the process it will be possible to evaluate the learning. The learners age, stage of development, previous learning and learning style - kinesthetic, visual or auditory, need to be taken into account. In the primary years from age 5-7 the children are very receptive. They learn by observing and doing. From age 8 they like