TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

Effective means “achieving the results you want”. An effective second language teacher teaches his students in a proper and organized way which let the students control and acquire what he knows is important for them.

There are many people who think that they can’t learn a second language because they have spent many years studying it at school and they can’t hold a conversation or understand a native speaker. This probably happens because the syllabus is based on a lot of grammar explanations and has little use of the language in oral interactions.

Learning a language needs the students to get in touch with its culture and this can be done by watching videos or movies, reading magazines, newspapers, and websites. Using these sources the students can improve their learning process. To acquire a language, students need to be trained in the four skills any language has: listening, reading, writing, and speaking and also need to be trained in a friendly and kind environment where they can develop self-confidence and where they don’t feel embarrassed.

A second language should be taught by using new methods that facilitate practical processes. The teacher must trigger in the students the need to use the second language in all the activities he does (the use of technology, movies, music, social relations), calling his students attention through topics and things that are interesting for them. In this way, the teacher motivates his students to use the second language.

The main role of the teacher is that the students could notice how useful a second language is in their lives. The teacher will have to use methodologies that allow students to get tools in order to stimulate their independence as learners. A teacher should provide significant experiences in order to allow students to practice what they have learnt so they can build together some grammar structures of the second language.