Preview

✔️ How well students learn a language ultimately depends more on their own efforts than on the teacher’s. Thus, any attempt to understand effective language teaching must consider the issue of effective language learning.


✔️ Four basic realities of language learning are that language is a tool for communication, learning a language involves mastery of both knowledge and skill, the struggle to learn a language is a battle of the heart as well as the mind, and learners vary considerably in their preferred approaches to language learning.


✔️ The language teacher is not simply a transmitter of knowledge; like a coach, the language teacher needs to assist students in understanding the task before them, staying motivated, building discipline, and learning how to pursue the task on their own.

✔️ Students or colleagues in your host country may not share the assumptions stated above, so it is important to make your assumptions explicit to the students and to make sure that there is not too large a gap between your expectations and the students’.

https://www.tesol.org/docs/default-source/books/14077_sam.pdf?sfvrsn=2&sfvrsn=2

Reference