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mejms · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 390

That�s a great excerpt about the lack of professionalism and qualifications for language teaching. And I agree that in order to teach a language, you need to first be a student of language. As the author says, that`s how every profession in the world works. First you learn, then you teach. With language teachers though, the attitude is if you speak it, then you can teach it.

My knowledge of Spanish helps me immensely in being a more efficient and effective English teacher. I can anticipate and really understand their mistakes. I don`t know if there is another way for a teacher to really be able to convey the language to a student without having a sense of what it means to learn a language. Maybe there is. Knowing grammar inside out doesn�t do the trick, though. I often think to myself that just as grammar is the framework for a language, so it needs to be the framework for your class. But that doesn�t mean teaching grammar per se. It means using grammar to teach language. If that�s too convoluted, I can say more about what I think.

mejms · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 390

That�s a great excerpt about the lack of professionalism and qualifications for language teaching. And I agree that in order to teach a language, you need to first be a student of language. As the author says, that`s how every profession in the world works. First you learn, then you teach. With language teachers though, the attitude is if you speak it, then you can teach it.

My knowledge of Spanish helps me immensely in being a more efficient and effective English teacher. I can anticipate and really understand their mistakes. I don`t know if there is another way for a teacher to really be able to convey the language to a student without having a sense of what it means to learn a language. Maybe there is. Knowing grammar inside out doesn�t do the trick, though. I often think to myself that just as grammar is the framework for a language, so it needs to be the framework for your class. But that doesn�t mean teaching grammar per se. It means using grammar to teach language. If that�s too convoluted, I can say more about what I think.

mejms · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 390

That�s a great excerpt about the lack of professionalism and qualifications for language teaching. And I agree that in order to teach a language, you need to first be a student of language. As the author says, that`s how every profession in the world works. First you learn, then you teach. With language teachers though, the attitude is if you speak it, then you can teach it.

My knowledge of Spanish helps me immensely in being a more efficient and effective English teacher. I can anticipate and really understand their mistakes. I don`t know if there is another way for a teacher to really be able to convey the language to a student without having a sense of what it means to learn a language. Maybe there is. Knowing grammar inside out doesn�t do the trick, though. I often think to myself that just as grammar is the framework for a language, so it needs to be the framework for your class. But that doesn�t mean teaching grammar per se. It means using grammar to teach language. If that�s too convoluted, I can say more about what I think.

mejms · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 390

That�s a great excerpt about the lack of professionalism and qualifications for language teaching. And I agree that in order to teach a language, you need to first be a student of language. As the author says, that`s how every profession in the world works. First you learn, then you teach. With language teachers though, the attitude is if you speak it, then you can teach it.

My knowledge of Spanish helps me immensely in being a more efficient and effective English teacher. I can anticipate and really understand their mistakes. I don`t know if there is another way for a teacher to really be able to convey the language to a student without having a sense of what it means to learn a language. Maybe there is. Knowing grammar inside out doesn�t do the trick, though. I often think to myself that just as grammar is the framework for a language, so it needs to be the framework for your class. But that doesn�t mean teaching grammar per se. It means using grammar to teach language. If that�s too convoluted, I can say more about what I think.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Are you posting from like the fifth dimension, mejms? Wink

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

You know, Guy, it's just-

Poftarenya, mats uchenya!

mejms · Joined: 04 Jan 2010 Posts: 390

Alright, boys, have your fun. It's nice to see you give it a shot.

ElJuero · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 58

ontoit · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 99

Like any other learning activity, motivation is the key.

A competent teacher can help, but even a horrible teacher can't stop someone hellbent to learn from learning, short of locking the poor stiff up in a closet with the light switched off.

Professor · Joined: 22 May 2009 Posts: 449 Location: Mexico City

I'm curious. The original first page is missing from your thread Phil K. Why?? You know the page that you had listed the problems with the colegio, universities and so forth.
Where did THAT page go?? People considering coming here have a right to know the many pitfalls. Just curious.