English Teaching Today: What do I need to know

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Mind Map on English Teaching Today: What do I need to know, created by Mariana Mendoza on 21/02/2016.
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English Teaching Today: What do I need to know
  1. Teaching priorities
    1. Fluency and accuracy: It is important for the students to learn to use english used by majority of fluent, educated speakers in the international communication.
      1. Different styles and englishes: We need to make sure that our teaching programmes include exposure to a range of styles in order to raise students' awareness of the differences between them.
        1. Vocabulary: We have to supplement such incidental acquisition with deliberate teaching and review of lexical items.
          1. Writing: We need to invest more effort in helping our students achieve written, as well reading fluency. Master their basic spelling, the use of punctuation and so on.
          2. English as an international language
            1. Language standars: We must teach lexical, grammatical, pholological and ortographical forms that are most likely to be understood and used worldwide.
              1. The native and non-native english teacher: If teachers who speaks the language as an additional are fully competent and fluent are likely to be a better model for their students.
                1. English literature and Culture: Most learners nedd to become aware of diverse international cosmopolitan set of cultural customs, literature, art forms and so on.
                  1. L1: There is no particular reaseon to ban the use of L1 in the classroom. It is likely to play a valuable role in the acquisition of english.
                  2. Theories and teaching methodologies
                    1. Theories of language acquisition: -Intuitive acquisition. -Habit-formation. -Cognitive process. -Skill-learning.
                      1. Approaches and methodologies: -Grammar-translation. -Audio-lingualism. -Communicative approach.
                      2. Computerized teaching materials
                        1. It provides flexibility, adaptability to the individual, enormous range of informational sources and various interactive options of computer hard-and software.
                        2. Motivation
                          1. Integrative and instrumental motivation: The desire to learn in order to integrate into the community of speaker of that language. By the othe hand, the need to learn a language for material benefit.
                            1. Exthrinsic ans intrinsic motivation: -Extrinsic. The perceived benefits of succes in learning and penalties of failure. -Intrinsic. Associated with the activity of language learning itself.
                              1. Self and personal identity: How we see ourselves or wish to see ourselves in the future.
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