Teaching Languages to The Older Student.

TEACHING LANGUAGES TO THE OLDER STUDENT TEACHING OLDER STUDENTS – GENERAL Perhaps the first thing to mention here is that teaching anything to older students can be both different from and similar to teaching younger students. Older students are more likely to be studying a language because they really want to do that, unlike youngsters who have been forced into choosing a foreign language because it is part of the school curriculum. Therefore there is an advantage in that the older students are motivated and want to succeed. On the subject of success however, it is vital to remember that adult students are more likely to be ...  Read the complete review

The purpose of writing this review is that it may act as a guide to those wishing to teach language to students of limited ability. Taking my experience in the UK of helping a school with children who had “Special” needs, what the experience taught me was that not all children learn by the same methods. For those less academic, explaining things in another manner that is relevant to that child can indeed make the learning process easier and achieve similar results. Here, to illustrate, in order to teach a non academic student, I used demonstration with items that were relevant to his lifestyle. For example, teaching fractions with the use of a Mars bar, split between ...  Read the complete review