Teaching Issues/strategies

Question 0

Addressing Issues:

Please name 3 common issues that a TEFL teacher may have to address.

Answer 0

1. Why is the student studying
2. What circumstances
3. Cultural background
4. Lack of exposure to English speakers
5. The age factor
6. The intelligence factor

Question 1

Teacher Considerations:

Please name 3 common factors for consideration by a TEFL teacher over TESL students learning under conditions more conducive to learning English.

Answer 1

1. Commitment/dedication
2. Age
3. Confidence
4. Natural flair for languages
5. Cultural background
6. Intelligence

Question 2

Addressing Issues:

What “theory” can be applied to help discover a students strengths and weaknesses.

Answer 2

The theory of multiple intelligence

Question 3

Addressing Issues:

The theory of multiple intelligence differentiates a number of different intelligent modalities.
How many separate modalities are there.

Answer 3

8

Question 4

Developing Strategies.

Please name 4 strategies that an EFL teacher may need to apply to overcome disadvantaged faced by EFL students.

Answer 4

1. Focus on classroom English
2. Technique
3. Setting tasks
4. Managing Expectations

Question 5

Developing Strategies:
The Focus in an EFL classroom is to teach students how to:

A. Study English as a foreign language.
B. Clearly understand each stage of the course
C. Practice outside the classroom with homework
D. Manage their own expectations

Answer 5

A

Question 6

Developing Strategies:
A golden rule is “do not create” unrealistic goals in the minds of both the students and EFT teacher.
This is achieved by.

A. Study English as a foreign language.
B. Clearly understand each stage of the course
C. Practice outside the classroom with homework
D. Managing expectations

Answer 6

D.

Question 7

Developing Strategies:
Developing a consistent technique so students can readily navigate between topics, tasks and language focuses; will help them.

A. Study English as a foreign language.
B. Clearly understand each stage of the course
C. Practice outside the classroom with homework
D. Manage their own expectations

Answer 7

B

Question 8

Developing Strategies:
A TEFL must help students by setting task so they can.

A. Study English as a foreign language.
B. Clearly understand each stage of the course
C. Practice outside the classroom with homework
D. Manage their own expectations

Answer 8

C

Question 9

The theory of multiple intelligence was published in the 1983 book “frames of mind” by.

A. Professor Malcolm Knowles
B. Charles Berlitz 
C. Georgi Lozanov
D. James Asher
E. Howard Gardner

Answer 9

E.