Certification > TESOL Specialization Courses
Teaching Adults English
Adults Worldwide
Are Studying English. They Have Unique and Individual Needs and
They Need Your Help…Learn to Teach Adults With Confidence and Creativity!
Adults are voluntary learners with unique needs and individual learning requirements.
Course Overview:
Adult learners
demand to learn quickly and effectively. They pay for their lessons and
choose to be in the classroom, as opposed to children who have to be there.
This
course explains the unique aspects of Teaching Adults English.
The function of language is to give people the power to communicate
thoughts, needs
and feelings, to receive important information, to comprehend instructions
and to ask
and answer questions. Adults need to learn to use English and to communicate
clearly.
Over the years
there have been many methods of teaching Adults English, each of these
methods claiming to be the "authority" on what adult learners need to learn.
The
Communicative movement encompasses all modes and methods of language use.
All skills are addressed - reading, writing,
listening and speaking, with the primary focus
on usage.
Course Content:
- Overview of adult education
- Communicative Approach
- Teaching adults with success
- Activities and group work
- ESP
- Student levels
- Skills, grammar, presentations
- Lesson planning
- Vocabulary
-
Listening, speaking, reading, writing
Course Requirements:
- Demonstration task
- Fable assignment
- Listening and speaking task
- Vocabulary assignment
- Story task
- Role-play assignment
- Discussion assignment
- Christmas assignment
- Famous person assignment
- Adaptation task
- Worst case scenario assessment
-
3 lesson plan assignments
A group of Japanese adult students
at a United Kingdom University were each asked to
rank their motivations for learning English.
Here are the results:
1. To be able to communicate with people in an international language,
both at home in
Japan and while traveling in
other countries.
2. To be able to read a wide range of English language sources for study
purposes
abroad and in Japan.
3. To have a better chance of employment, status and financial reward in
the job market.
4. To be able to read and listen to English language media for information
and pleasure.
5. To find out more about the people, places, politics etc. of English
speaking cultures.
6. To take up a particular career i.e. for English language teaching, or
working in an
international company.
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