Unit 2 what makes a good English language teacher?
Each student is to make a list of the top six basic qualities that a good language teacher should possess. The following adjectives might be helpful for this purpose.
Kind creative resourceful flexible humorous Dynamic patient attentive intuitive caring Authoritative well-informed warm-hearted accurate disciplined Speaking clearly hardworking well-prepared enthusiastic professionally-trained Articulate strict fluent in English |
These characteristics can be broadly categorized into 3 classes, i.e, linguistic competence, personality and pedagogical skills. Try to regroup the adjectives listed above in terms of 3 classes. Some other classes may be suggested if you find the adectives can hardly fall into these 3 categories.
1. Linguistics competence
2. Personality
3. Professional qualities
Now choose 2 or 3 most important characteristics of a good English language teacher from each class. Discuss these qualities and try to draw a profile of a good English language profile of a good language teacher :
How far am I from a good english language teacher?
Think of these six characteristics again and make a self-assessment to see whether you have the potential of becoming a good language teacher. Try to evaluate yourself in terms of the 3 dimensions. The numbers going along with each dimension indicate your confidence in this particular dimensions. I stands for least confident, while 5 stands for most confident. Circle the number in accordence with your own case.
1. Linguistics competence 5 4 3 2 1
2. Personality 5 4 3 2 1
3. Professional qualities 5 4 3 2 1
Unit 2 what makes a good English language teacher?
Each student is to make a list of the top six basic qualities that a good language teacher should possess. The following adjectives might be helpful for this purpose.
Kind creative resourceful flexible humorous Dynamic patient attentive intuitive caring Authoritative well-informed warm-hearted accurate disciplined Speaking clearly hardworking well-prepared enthusiastic professionally-trained Articulate strict fluent in English |
These characteristics can be broadly categorized into 3 classes, i.e, linguistic competence, personality and pedagogical skills. Try to regroup the adjectives listed above in terms of 3 classes. Some other classes may be suggested if you find the adectives can hardly fall into these 3 categories.
1. Linguistics competence
2. Personality
3. Professional qualities
Now choose 2 or 3 most important characteristics of a good English language teacher from each class. Discuss these qualities and try to draw a profile of a good English language profile of a good language teacher :
