What Are The Weaknesses Of Teaching English Language

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Teaching English in a foreign country can be a challenge for anyone even if their knowledge of English is at an advanced level, as most people have different teaching styles and techniques. While I was in Taiwan, I was able to see how contradictory the learning styles and the education system are. This surprised me because I have never faced these kinds of methods before. Coming from a small country and studying in the United States I thought I had seen it all, however I was wrong.
These following articles concentrate on teaching English in Taiwan. They mainly focus on the weaknesses some teachers may have, the learning strategies for young children in elementary schools, and the experience and the difficulties some teachers have faced. English …show more content…

They are mainly based on linguistic and error avoiding strategies. Young students in the ESL environment interact more, but sometimes the native speaker is the one who starts the conversation. If there is not enough interaction than the teacher uses what is called “private speech,” where they would repeat each other’s sentences, they would try to recall and practice, and so on (Lan 345). Besides this they also concentrate on learning new vocabulary and try to remember it. While the young students are learning vocabulary the best strategies are to be prepared in advance, to write and speak repeatedly, and most important that they should not forget to ask for help. This makes it easier for Native and Chinese teachers, to help the students understand and comprehend the given material better. (Lan …show more content…

Besides the misbehaved students and the large classes, all three teachers in the case study by Cheryl Wei-Yu and Cheng Yuh-Show were having difficulties with their accents. (Wei-Yu 10) The students had problem understanding what the teachers were talking and the faculty staff blamed it on them, but the teachers respond that the students are so young so they have difficulty learning the language, because it is a new language, not because of their accent. The only reason the staff reacted like that it is because, Taiwanese schools are more familiar with the American accent. In order to avoid this problem they should not recruit non-American speakers in the program until the students have better comprehension of the language. (Wei-Yu

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