How do you teach it if you dont know the language of the people you're teaching it too.
I've been wondering this for ages.
I've been wondering this for ages.
General Discussion: Teaching Englsih Abroad
Im teaching English as a foreign language, just like we would learn french or german at school. You only speak english within the lesson and the classroom, its basic stuff, and u can play games for example, such as 'simon says' but the kids will already understand simple nouns and adjectives. I'm doing it along with a TEFL qualification
It's easy once you see the prepared course material you can get. You start with the basics which have cartoons to support the objects, expressions etc and once you build up the basic vocabulary, you use it to explain the new words.
I learned Portuguese from a teacher who cannot speak English and it was not too bad. It did help being able to ask someone else to explain things more clearly but translating rather than learning from scratch is more of a hinderance than a help.
thanks
Iain
I learned Portuguese from a teacher who cannot speak English and it was not too bad. It did help being able to ask someone else to explain things more clearly but translating rather than learning from scratch is more of a hinderance than a help.
thanks
Iain
Uncle B are you now Fluent in portuguese?
I can get along with most things but reading the newspaper is still a major undertaking a the language is so complex. Each verb can be spelled about 20 different ways depending on whether it is referring to the past, present or future, whether it is conditional and occasionally other factors. Then nouns have gender so this adds a further level of complexiry when adjective change depending on gender and plurality.
At least English has a basic structure, even if it can say the same thing in way too many ways.
thanks
Iain
I swear there's a fuk member who's just gone to Japan for a year to teach English. All he said was that all you need is a Degree in whatever to qualify for a working visa… I guess that varies from country to country. Can't remember the company he went through, think it began with N, I'll look it up as it's my one of my girlfriends Economist magazines.
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