Monday, October 10, 2011

Communicative teacher

When we think of a group of learners we usually think of school children. But we can also find different groups whose main goal is to learn English for communicative purposes. They know what they need and they surely have some expectations.Textbooks take into account their ages and interests and the activities you can find inside will vary depending on the main beliefs of different authors. They usually publish one book that must fit people from many different cultures and countries so I think that teachers need to develop important communicative skills to maintain the students´interests and not only follow the authors´opinions of language teaching.

1 comment:

  1. It is true! But I also think that textbooks are not good or bad. The issue is that teachers need to know how to use them and how to select the information that is useful from the book. A textbook is dangerous, because is easy to follow only the book and to stay there during all the year.

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