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nate2008
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
Location: Daegu
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 Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: English ability levels |
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Hi all,
I have no idea what level I will be teaching (elementary, middle, etc..) but I requested Middle Schoolers. I have two questions:
1. Am I likely to get what I requested?
2. What is the ability level of elementary, middle, and high schoolers? For example, are they familiar with verbs? Tenses? How much vocab? a general idea would be real nice.
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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The ability level really depends on the students you get.
If you are lucky you can get really advanced kids, if you are not, you get those who don't even care you are standing in the room. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: English ability levels |
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| nate2008 wrote: |
Hi all,
I have no idea what level I will be teaching (elementary, middle, etc..) but I requested Middle Schoolers. I have two questions:
1. Am I likely to get what I requested?
2. What is the ability level of elementary, middle, and high schoolers? For example, are they familiar with verbs? Tenses? How much vocab? a general idea would be real nice.
Thanks |
1. i think chances are you'll get middle school.
2. i taught at a middle school last year, and i found students' ability levels to range greatly. out of my entire school (over 1200 kids), a few were near fluent (one from living abroad in canada, some others from tons of study/hagwon classes), there were also kids that were exactly where they should be (according to the textbook), but the majority of students at my school had a hard time understanding (i got the feeling some couldn't read english yet). however, my old school was in a lower income area of the city (not many of the kids could afford hagwon classes, or had parents pushing them to do their work), so it may not be the best sample of MS english ability.
i try to repeat myself often in class, and if there's a co-teacher in the classroom, i try to get them to give the students a chance to figure it out for themselves before they jump in with a translation |
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