Comments on: Hottest English teaching method

By: KyKy

KyKy — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:31:26 +0000

This article highlights a seemingly obvious fact; regardless of the classroom or subject, the teacher is still the most integral part of the learning process, or the star of the show as the article alludes to. Even without the use of modern and often useful teaching aids and tools, their sheer enthusiasm and communication ability, in combination with their clever use of humour in their curriculum, allows them to effectively create a memorable learning experience for the students. This is particularly important for passing standardised exams, as the most efficient way of studying for this format of exam is by knowledge recall

By: Ngoc Hiep Nguyen

Ngoc Hiep Nguyen — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:34:45 +0000

This story once again reminds me of the idea that if it would be the best way to teach students for the purpose of their learning scores or for the practically applied purposes. This thinking may lead to different methods of teaching. The way applied by the star teachers with celebrity status in Taiwan is known for its effectiveness because of the students’ high scores, on the one hand, can meet the practical demands from the learners in a particular educational context, may not be highly appreciated in the other situations in which the scores are not among the learners’ top priorities.
I acknowledge that the traditional and local methods that these celebrity teachers use are both interesting and effective in their own ways and the other methods have their own possibilities to be effective in other circumstances.

By: Xinyue Ji

Xinyue Ji — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:10:26 +0000

As a Chinese, I believe that the situation the author points out is common and important in Chinese educational teaching. Most Chinese students are used to have teacher-oriented classes. Moreover, in China, there are many goal-oriented examinations like College Entrance Examination, CET4 and so on, and these tests require teachers and students concentrate on the technique, as a result, most teachers may use a humorous function to teach and assure that the learners can effectively remember the learning points.

By: N

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:11:52 +0000

This is a good example of how to effectively teach. I believe that teaching approach can be changed or adapted due to those situation and facilities. As in the article, a star teacher, Carrie Chen, demonstrated online via video clips. She just used herself and old-school way of teaching which are teacher-centered. However, the way she teaches and speaks can catch students attention and help them to easily remember difficult words. As the result, students can get high score because of her teaching style. As a student, studying such as vocabulary, grammar or writing is sound very boring, but in term of teacher it is our job to make lessons interesting.

By: Nidhi

Nidhi — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 03:13:47 +0000

Teaching entails various aspects. I strongly believe that the output of student’s performance depends on teaching method. Merely looks can not make a teacher star teacher for that one needs to make an impression of good teaching. I still can remember in my school time my math teacher was too stern and the way of teaching was traditional that I could never enjoy this subject but once Mrs. Anita used innovative ways of teaching (a new teacher) I found my self confident enough to understand in one go.

By: GgUnited

GgUnited — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:43:15 +0000

13. The tips that Carrie used to teach English to their students reminds me of my own story in which I once studied English vocabularies by remembering somehow similar pronounced words or phrases in Vietnamese. These tips became so popular at that time that it also appeared in TV programs. However, not all the people share the same interest in the method in which they are taught languages. To the best of my knowledge, this should only be a small part of the learning that can help students engaged in the lesson.

By: Nguyen Thien Duyen Ngo

Nguyen Thien Duyen Ngo — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 08:49:39 +0000

In my case, I am easily attracted by the appearances of someone else and pay more attention to that one. In the case of study, the teachers with good appearances also easily catch my attention. However, it is just the first impression, after that the teaching methodologies are the most important factors. I can see the ways of communication of the teacher in the video clip is very interesting and worth considering. At the end of the article, it is said about the good results in the standardized exams because of this teaching methodologies, it makes me want to think again about this teaching methodology. Because the education of China quite similar to Vietnam, they judge students’ ability based on the results of the standardized examinations which mainly about memorizing and not really practical.

By: v

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:46:41 +0000

I believe that if learners living in the nation where English considers as a foreign language, and it is critical to get a higher review on English test to enter great colleges, the conventional teaching impact on students. The motivations of teaching English are that to influence students to have amended grammar knowledge and in addition maintain an extensive variety of vocabulary. As the instructor has encouraged the students how to remember words adequately, they could have turned into a star educator. Despite the fact that this instructing method probably won’t be appropriate for speaking skill, it is a proficient method to enhance the students’ grammar and vocabulary abilities.

By: tting

tting — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:47:39 +0000

A teaching method comprises the principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning. These strategies are determined partly on the subject matter to be taught and partly by the nature of the learner. For a particular teaching method to be appropriate and efficient, it has to be in relation with the characteristic of the learner and the type of learning it is supposed to bring about. The students’ language level and characteristics should be taken into account in the teaching method.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 02:09:04 +0000

I could not agree more to the paper that good looks and personality are not the only part a teacher should possess. There are few other more important components that have a straightforward impact on the teaching and learning process such as teaching method. In Islamic school realm, we believe that teacher’s personality and the materials are vital, but the way the teacher delivers the lesson is the most prominent. Nevertheless, it is important that I or perhaps other English teachers should keep in mind that the teaching method has to be based on the context. This, I think, is what teachers, particularly in Indonesia, should develop. Notwithstanding that they acquire a good pedagogy of the language they teach, but usually some teachers of Arabic and English, that I have witnessed, tend to apply the same ways to some different contexts.
While it is true that those teachers in Taiwan might have used a good method in their language teaching which is reflected by the students’ achievement in the standardized test, other factors like the students’ motivation, aptitude and the out of class supportive learning environment may also have taken a big part of the success.

By: Tamanna Habib

Tamanna Habib — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:58:34 +0000

I found this article will be very helpful in my country context. During my learning period, I experienced some classes were really boring as the teachers used to teach in only traditional methods with no technological assistance, no computers, videos, multimedia projectors. I observed the teaching method in Australia school. Here, teachers always try to engage students in different activities through fun. As a result, students are interested in going to class and attend schools. These teachers try to transmit their ideas in examples, anecdotes, comparisons and fun jokes. In the present day, my country teachers try to be efficient and Western-alike in their teaching methods. However, they need proper training and materials to be a star teacher. A star teacher is that person who can bring out the most efficiency in students’ learning and achieve their goals. But he also has to aware of the fact that, he should be flexible according to context and situation.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:43:01 +0000

After reading this article and watching the clip, I find that it is explicitly true that a good “star” teacher needs to have the right attitude and looks to attract the students’ attention. As a saying goes, “you are what you eat”, it goes the same for the law of attraction as well where the students’ progress in learning, knowledge and attitude are influenced greatly from their source (the teacher). If I had a teacher who is moody and grumpy in class, no one would be interested in listening to the class, as compared to someone opposite.

By: Shaher Mohammed Shaher Asiri

Shaher Mohammed Shaher Asiri — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 14:08:03 +0000

Hello everyone,
This article reminds me about how I learnt English. According to my experience, When I started learning English language as a my major in the university, all lectures used the Grammar Translation Method. Most of lectures have PHD in linguistics and they know that methodology might not be a useful technique to teach students a foreign language. I realized later that this GTM , is not effective and it did not teach me how to communicate in the target language. In future, I think, I will utilize CLT method which can meet students needs.

By: yym

yym — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 12:30:13 +0000

As the article mentioned, teachers have played an important role in teaching. The teacher has a good command of English and is enthusiastic and lively. As a result, the classroom atmosphere is positively influenced. Teachers stress and encourage students to maintain a positive attitude while combining humor and positive learning skills to stimulate and maintain students’interest. Carrie is good at using the fascinating method to make the knowledge become alive, which means class atmosphere will become more relaxing.

By: Fern

Fern — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 11:56:56 +0000

I agree with the statement that only good looks and tidy appearances do not breed star teachers nor do they get high performances from their students. The situation described in the blog varies according to its contexts. Mostly institutional constraints such as instruction in the target language, adhering to the syllabus contents provide less freedom for teachers to experiment with these different teaching methods as they are branded as traditional. However, the content knowledge and an engaging manner of teaching could not only reap higher results as but increase the motivation of the students. Use of the learners’ first language in the class room has been gaining more prominence recently where student engagement is enhanced and thus performance is improved.Therefore , such methods as Grammar translation method cannot be easily discarded as traditional when it works positively in the second language classroom.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 07:43:25 +0000

I find it very interesting that the popularity of a teacher is somewhat influenced by appearance. In terms of first impressions, I understand that a neat appearance implies an organised and orderly approach to life and therefore perhaps many students subconsciously infer that this would also apply to class content, class management and ultimately increase their chances of academic success. Or is it because, in such as highly populated country, Taiwan (or China) an incomprehensible level of competition exists, in which in many cases the easier way to categorise or judge people may be based on their appearance? This can be seen in the SBS programme, ‘If You Are the One’ where future partners are selected based predominantly on appearance, as well as financial security followed by similar social status loyalty to family.