This is not an easy task, but is such a rewarding one that I would not hesitate to choose it again for a living.
Helping kids on their adventure of discovering a new world, where not just a new language is needed but also a different approach to situations, is priceless.
Because teaching ESL is not just about teaching a new language, with its own grammatical structures, vocabulary and phonetics, but mainly about teaching a new culture.
As an ESL teacher, you have to get your students involved enough to be able to change their identity to some degree. Learning a foreign language always entails learning a foreign culture, since any language has been built in order to express a particular culture. Thus, learning how to speak and write a given language involves an understanding of the culture out of which that language emerged.
That is why we should start revising our students' ideas, attitudes and even prejudices about the culture that is bound up with the language we expect them to learn. This way, we will manage their motivation.
Hi, I think it's a good idea use web tools because kids use them all days. Maybe it's difficult for us, but we have to learn because we need to teach them for do more easy their lives.
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