Problems Encountered in Teaching & Learning English Language
Teachers who teach students to learn English as a foreign language often face a variety of common and student-specific issues. Teaching the English language involves building reading and speaking vocabulary and understanding the written and spoken English language. To facilitate a positive learning climate for students and encourage them to practice and continue to learn the language, teachers should find ways to correct these common problems and reinforce the basic information that students need to communicate. effectively in English.
Summary of this practical sheet
1 Exceeding the schedule
2 Use of other languages
3 Real-world application and lessons in dry, old-fashioned and out-of-date text.
4 Confusion between written and spoken English.
5 Basic Vocabulary Vocabulary Building
Exceeding the schedule
Foreign language teachers may first notice that their lesson plans change over the course of the class. Classes may progress slowly despite your efforts. Pupils who learn a second language often learn at different rates and usually learn material differently. By encouraging students to practice skills learned in class and incorporating listening exercises, such as learning poems or parts of a favorite story in the new language outside of the classroom, students can be able to stay on track with your instruction plan at a slightly slower pace.
Use of other languages
Another notable problem for English teachers is that students fall back on their native language for conversation. It is often easier for students to communicate in their native language rather than in English. It is usually frustrating for students to rethink and rephrase their thoughts clearly in the new language. Diversifying your student groups so that all students in the same group do not speak the same mother tongue will discourage students from reverting to their mother tongue to communicate and encourage them to use the one they have in common.
Real-world application and lessons in dry, old-fashioned and out-of-date text.
It can be difficult to distinguish between speaking in the classroom and applying speech in the real world. Textbooks and classroom teaching materials that teach students the fundamentals of the English language and proper grammar can be stitched and very unrealistic in terms of examples of dialogue. When students learn English as a second language, they may assume that the speech patterns in class will be the same outside of the classroom. Often, the language of textbooks uses rarer or outdated terms and expressions, which can confuse and contradict what a textbook shows.
Confusion between written and spoken English.
Students can hear and understand spoken English, but confuse sentence structure and grammar when writing the same thing. Another problem that teachers face in teaching English is grammatical issues in writing.
It can be difficult for students to write clearly in a second language, as their first language may have different requirements for tenses and placement for sentence structure. Teachers often face problems with the formatting of sentences and grammar necessary for consistency in writing.
Vocabulary Base Vocabulary Building
Building a student's English vocabulary is one of the first questions teachers teach students in a second language. Thinking of an object and remembering two identifying names can be confusing for younger and older students. Incorporating interactive lessons to identify common objects and images is a great starting point for building everyday object vocabulary. Activities and exercise materials focused on recognizing and using words with the correct spelling are key components of teaching English as a second language.
