Adults Worldwide Are Studying English. They Have Unique and Individual Needs and They Need Your Help? Learn to Teach Adults With Confidence and Creativity!
Adults are voluntary learners with unique needs and individual learning requirements.
Course Overview:
Adult learners demand to learn quickly and effectively. They pay for their lessons and choose to be in the classroom, as opposed to children who have to be there. This course explains the unique aspects of Teaching Adults English.
The function of language is to give people the power to communicate thoughts, needs and feelings, to receive important information, to comprehend instructions and to ask and answer questions. Adults need to learn to use English and to communicate clearly.
Over the years there have been many methods of teaching Adults English, each of these methods claiming to be the "authority" on what adult learners need to learn. The Communicative movement encompasses all modes and methods of language use. All skills are addressed - reading, writing, listening and speaking, with the primary focus on usage.
Course Content:
Overview of adult education
Communicative Approach
Teaching adults with success
Activities and group work
ESP
Student levels
Skills, grammar, presentations
Lesson planning
Vocabulary
Listening, speaking, reading, writing
Course Requirements:
Demonstration task
Fable assignment
Listening and speaking task
Vocabulary assignment
Story task
Role-play assignment
Discussion assignment
Christmas assignment
Famous person assignment
Adaptation task
Worst case scenario assessment
3 lesson plan assignments
A group of Japanese adult students at a United Kingdom University were each asked to rank their motivations for learning English.
Here are the results:
1. To be able to communicate with people in an international language, both at home in
Japan and while traveling in other countries.
2. To be able to read a wide range of English language sources for study purposes abroad
and in Japan.
3. To have a better chance of employment, status and financial reward in the job market.
4. To be able to read and listen to English language media for information and pleasure.
5. To find out more about the people, places, politics etc. of English speaking cultures.
6. To take up a particular career i.e. for English language teaching, or working in an
international company.
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