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Overview:
Adult learners demand to learn quickly
and effectively. They pay for their lessons and
choose to be in the classroom, as opposed to children
who have to be there. This course explains the unique
aspects of Teaching Adults English.
The function of language is to give people the power
to communicate thoughts, needs and feelings, to
receive important information, to comprehend instructions
and to ask and answer questions. Adults need to
learn to use English and to communicate clearly.
Over the years there have been many
methods of teaching Adults English, each of these
methods claiming to be the "authority"
on what adult learners need to learn. The Communicative
movement encompasses all modes and methods of language
use. All skills are addressed - reading, writing,
listening and speaking, with the primary focus on
usage.
Course Content:
- Overview of adult education
- Communicative Approach
- Teaching adults with success
- Activities and group work
- ESP
- Student levels
- Skills, grammar,presentations
- Lesson planning
- Vocabulary
- Listening, speaking, reading, writing
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Course
Requirements
- Demonstration task
- Fable assignment
- Listening and speaking task
- Vocabulary assignment
- Story task
- Role-play assignment
- Discussion assignment
- Christmas assignment
- Famous person assignment
- Adaptation task
- Worst case scenario assessment
- 3 lesson plan assignments
A group of Japanese adult students
at a United Kingdom University were each asked to
rank their motivations for learning English.
Here are the results:
1. To be able to communicate with people in
an international language, both at home in Japan
and while traveling in other countries.
2. To be able to read a wide range of English language
sources for study purposes abroad and in Japan.
3. To have a better chance of employment, status
and financial reward in the job market.
4. To be able to read and listen to English language
media for information and pleasure.
5. To find out more about the people, places, politics
etc. of English speaking cultures.
6. To take up a particular career i.e. for English
language teaching, or working in an international
company.
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