tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post6532131633953148933..comments2023-11-03T07:08:45.266-05:00Comments on Becoming a Better EFL Teacher: Three Critical Problems in English Language Teaching and Learning and What to Do About ThemLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04905387659810303577noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-56985447666441848002013-02-24T12:34:38.277-05:002013-02-24T12:34:38.277-05:00However, as the EFL teachers, we must try to get t...However, as the EFL teachers, we must try to get the brilliant idea to overcome or at least to create manageable circumstances for the learners. As those problems are found everywhere<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-28680395212343199052012-12-22T05:11:49.118-05:002012-12-22T05:11:49.118-05:00i am teaching in a technical college to DAE classe...i am teaching in a technical college to DAE classes. the problem i feel that i have only 2 sessions of 45 min per week and almost my interaction with the class in after one week and till then the students have forgotten the previous lesson .........Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00570450069055931789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-84017418637136523462012-12-20T10:40:06.077-05:002012-12-20T10:40:06.077-05:00I teach in a highschool and there are 25-45 studen...I teach in a highschool and there are 25-45 students in each classes.Ant the most important problem I have observed is the lack of motivation.<br />The students believe that English is like math and it^s difficult to learn.<br /><br />Another problem is lack of technological devices.just boadr and a pen.And the rest is left to the teacher.<br /><br />ziyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-8204922234726764822008-03-18T20:42:00.000-05:002008-03-18T20:42:00.000-05:00Over-sized or over-populated classes are a severe ...Over-sized or over-populated classes are a severe problem in many countries, and not just "third world" countries either. How about groups of 80 or 100 learners! Don't scoff, it happens, unfortunately. Lack of resources is another severe condition too many EFL teachers can face. I'll be discussing this is more detail in later posts. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for all your pointed comments. <BR/><BR/>Prof. Larry M. LynchLarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04905387659810303577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-6748176732803359992008-02-28T14:55:00.000-05:002008-02-28T14:55:00.000-05:00One of the common problems at teaching English, in...One of the common problems at teaching English, in this case, is the over-crowded class where a teacher can find more than thirty students in a very small classroom, without a tape recorder, no television, no posters, no DVD or sometimes without markers neither board. It is always difficult to carry out activities where students can improve their communicative skills; is not possible to personalize teaching and as consequence not good results are shown every day. Besides this, the class-time is often very short (once or twice a week, one or two hours daily), so the lesson plan is not developed as programmed was and next class is often a review of the last one stopping the teaching-learning process. The teacher does not know what problems there are in the students learning process, he or she cannot to solve them because is difficult to distinguish a specific learner with a specific learning problem.LUIS FERNANDO IMBACHÍ MEDINAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07895987946996680314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-586740300676010452008-02-21T15:00:00.000-05:002008-02-21T15:00:00.000-05:00What can a language teacher do in these situations...What can a language teacher do in these situations? I think this is a question many of us have tried to answer at least once in our professional lives, but, although not impossible, the problem is very difficult to deal with. I consider important for a teacher to take into account that from the quality of the work we do we are going to either see bad results or amazing ones. Therefore, I believe that teacher motivation is what's important here, because it doesn't matter if you live in third-world country, with fifty students in your class and absolutely no resources, as lons as your motivation for teaching is high you will always find ways to deal with the frustration these problems bring about.Julio Tulandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15958195135665671218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-7551352209243775262008-02-21T08:28:00.000-05:002008-02-21T08:28:00.000-05:00Lack of motivation, poor resources and over-crowed...Lack of motivation, poor resources and over-crowed clsses are undoubtedly some of the most critical problems that teachers have to face in our schools, not only to teach English, but also almost all the subjects.<BR/>Lack of motivation may be the result of many factors as the the way itself that subjet are presented to them; most of the time students find the contents have nothing to do with the actual world. Many students, I believe, feel that stay in school six hours a day, is a complety waste of time because subjects don't meet their wants or needs; on the other hand most of the students don't have goals to achieve, they don't know where they want to go then, I think, are techers who must always be looking for methods and strategies to motivate and make learning challenger to get better results and one of them is to take in acount the multiple intelligences to prepare activities.<BR/>About lack of resources, insufficent time and over-crowed groups, the responsability is of our educational system but teachers have to use their creativity to overcome the problem. I've found so useful using practices of Dynet method as circuit training, choral and groups activities to work with either small or large courses and to get resorses I've used many strategies from taking the students toys until make the students prepare cards and posters that have been used before with other courses.<BR/>There are many problems but there are many teachers trying to solve them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-84114025067231528872008-02-19T01:19:00.000-05:002008-02-19T01:19:00.000-05:00The problem of not motivated students, the lack of...The problem of not motivated students, the lack of time for the processes of learning, and the excess of students in each classroom, I insist, is structural in this society with the proper responsibility of the current government and the Governments that have preceded the current, and does not just affect the teaching of English language, but affects almost all school subjects to be taught in both basic primary and secondary education and can be lower than in proportion to the university training . The point is that we must be part of the solution and not part of the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18471816.post-89500096830915674672008-02-18T22:31:00.000-05:002008-02-18T22:31:00.000-05:00there are critical problems in english language te...there are critical problems in english language teaching and learning ,because of some schools<BR/>lack resources, or the students are of 35 a 45 in a classroom, and it's very difficult to work with this number of students.<BR/>besides there are teachers don't use others activities or strategies of motivation for learning of this language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com