How Can a Chinese Teacher of English Succeed in Oral English Classes?

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How Can a Chinese Teacher of English Succeed in Oral English Classes?

Reference:

Jie, Z. (1999, July.7) How can a Chinese Teacher of English Succeed in Oral English Classes? Retrieved July 7, 1999 The Internet TESL Journal.http://iteslj.org/Articles/Zhou-SuccesslTeacher.html

Summary:

            In this article, the author explains very important things about how an English teacher can make oral classes very effective and interesting for students. She describes different ways to avoid students being frustrated or being depressed because they cannot understand what is going on through the teacher’s explanation for the lesson. She advises English teachers to change their strategy to make their classes very interesting for their students like talking or discussing something they love to talk about, make the class as group work so that each group has various students’ interests. In addition, she mentions some difficulties which may face English teachers in using various dialogues between their students, how to keep them away from exhaustion for a long time when discussing a subject in English which they do not have enough words about. Also, how to make reading in text books help students effectively and let them interact with each other all the time in English without need to open a Chinese dictionary to look at the meaning of the word. Furthermore, she guides English teachers on how to be successful in oral English classes. They must let their students talk about interesting things to attract their attention to learning the language.

Reaction:

            Really it is a very interesting article. I would like all English teachers to follow her advice to be good English teachers. In addition, I like how English teachers add more fun to their classes to make it easy for students to gain the language. I like her illustration of many strategies about how to avoid difficulties in oral English classes, and they will be more effective for both students and teachers. She guided teachers to the correct way they can run classes and keep their students away from boredom. In my opinion if all English teachers follow all these instructions, they will create a new generation of students who love learning English. Moreover, teachers will not find any constraints in teaching English or any skill.