Teaching English : How Do You Teach English to Adults?

[ilsur]

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[jennifergissell1]

do you recommend me a book i am teaching my mom English



[csrzegocki]

@enki7777 The claim that children are better able to learn languages is not flimsy. It is fact. The number of new words per day that a toddler is able to acquire, retain and use long-term, plus the speed with which their grammar systems is refined are both greater than adult language learners. Moreover, children are much more successful at acquiring the sound systems of new languages. They are able to hear and reproduce sounds that adults have a very hard time with.

[freddo63lol]

@csrzegocki i'm an adult of 22 and sure i'm still young, but I can and will be for the rest of my life mimicking sounds that I hear around me, whether it be for the fun of playing accents or singing or whatever other reason comes to mind. I think it's a personal choice to stop or slow down your learning as you grow older and most people make it unconciously, just by conforming to modern society's norms.

[uptohisneck]

@freddo63lol I hope you're right!

[freesites1]

5 Stars Short Film

[elena32able]

thanks for uploading this clip. is there a book you can recommend? it would really help me, i am an english teacher in greece and this year i have an adult student and i need some guidness. thank you

[Ghost2010151]

Well done, keep on

[mMariamm1]

This is a very simple but real approach to how to teach English to adults.

[enki7777]

But the notion that adults' "learning centers" in their brains are slowed down or stopped is complete foolishness.

The barriers children face in learning a language match or outweigh those that an adult faces...

The adult is just more likely to be out of the learning environment (school) and hence forgets what learning means and what it feels like.

[joshgreen19]

@enki7777 No. Research in neuroscience suggests that Neuroplasticity decreases signifcantly as we age (though not completely) and that children have much more plastic brains. He is correct in what he said, he just stated it in a very informal way. There is also a suggested "critical period" for learning a second language, beyond which accent transfer almost always occurs.

[enki7777]

Whereas children take in infinite amounts of information and process it... the smell of the lecturers breath, the color of her shirt, the range of tones in her voice, the shapes of her letters... the adult learner is better able to parse the input for what is meaningful...

For example, adults are much more able to take a provided sample sentence and extract a useful pattern from it that can be applied in new situations.

Perhaps a child can more rapidly remember that dog=dog and tree=tree...

[enki7777]

The notion that adults can't learn as well as kids is totally bogus... adults are more able to express their frustrations about learning...

There is some evidence pointing to the existence of a critical period for FIRST LANGUAGE learning, although even that is pretty flimsy, in my opinion, based only on some very extreme examples of children deprived of all human contact (raised by wolves, abused in a basement, etc...).

Once linguistic (we all are), learning a new language is easier for adults.

[matt0405]

I appreciate that you are speaking slowly for second language learners, but considering this video (as well as your others) are for people trying to learn how to TEACH English, you might want to include the importance of charisma and enthusiasm in your lesson. Not to downplay the importance of what you're doing, but I think anyone watching this for the first time without any prior knowledge will be left trying to figure out HOW to communicate these important points to their new students.