A slide presentation on how to teach English to adult students

1. Adultstudents: who are weteaching? Pablo J. Labandeira

2. Adultstudents

3. What English? As a Second language? As a Foreign language? Teaching English to adults

4. ESL Target language Foreign Language Learning How Languages are Learned by Patsy M. Lightgown & Nina Spada , 2nd Edition (OUP, 2000) So… whatEnglish?

5. Who are they? Why are they here? Why do they need or want to study English? What do they bring to class? L2 learners

6. Assumptions about language learning

7. How do you plan a course? Stoller and Grabe (1997) “A Six-T's Approach to Content-Based Instruction” in www.nflc.org

8. Factors to consider about... from Teaching Adult Second Language Learners, Heather McKay and Abigail Tom. Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers. Series Editor Penny Ur. CUP, 1999)

9. Some drawbacks of teaching adults

10. Teaching English as a L2 to adults

12. Academically motivated; driven by profit;

13. Demotivated, feeling of being stuck before knowledge;

15. Can they play the game?

16. What is “self-concept”?

18. Determining factors of motivation

19. Willingness Perseverance Cognitive commitment in doing the task, use of learning strategies and self-regulation strategies Results Indexes of student motivation And if they aren’t?

20. The complexity/simplicity of the text is not an issue. There is no such thing as a difficult text in an educational/scholastic context. But there are such things as difficult and easy tasks. Phil Ball Activity types in CLIL

21. Four basic types of texts Stoller and Grabe (1997) “A Six-T's Approach to Content-Based Instruction” in http://www.nflc.org

22. Teacherisresponsibleforimprovinglevel of attention. (Nothingsaid of strategiesforstudents) Punishment and reward Survey of students’ attitude, motivation and misconceptions Coaching Authentic materials (technical schools) What to do?