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Describing Learners

Homework Reflection. Take out your answers to the questionsDiscuss in small groups or with a partner:Which learning style do you think you are? Why?Which learning style do you think is the most difficult to teach? Why?What are some things that teachers can do to help motivate their students. War

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Describing Learners

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    1. Describing Learners GSE YL Methods 1: Speaking and Listening Methodology Week 2 lecture notes Lecturer: David Boesch

    2. Homework Reflection Take out your answers to the questions Discuss in small groups or with a partner: Which learning style do you think you are? Why? Which learning style do you think is the most difficult to teach? Why? What are some things that teachers can do to help motivate their students

    3. Warm up Discuss in pairs: What are the different aspects of learners mentioned in this reading? How does “age” affect the way we teach our students? What is meant by “learning styles”? Is important to consider our students’ learning styles? Why? What are some different ways we can motivate our students?

    4. Young Learners How do young children learn differently from older children, adolescents and adults?

    5. Respond to meaning even if they don’t understand individual words. Learn more indirectly than directly. (Implicit) Understanding comes from what they see, hear, touch and interact with, not just from explanation. Generally display an enthusiasm for learning and are curious about the world around them. (Learn through discovery) Have a need for individual attention and approval from the teacher. Keen to talk about themselves and respond well to learning that uses their own lives as topics in the classroom (personalization). Have limited attention span unless the activity is extremely engaging.

    6. How can we apply this knowledge about how children learn to our teaching practice in the language classroom?

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