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Key concepts and language teaching language

●    Foreign language learners need to be exposed to a rich variety of language, use it to communicate and interact, and have opportunities to focus on form. This helps to make the circumstances of L2 learning more similar to those in L1 and allows L2 learners (who are usually older than L1 learners) to use their different abilities to process language.

●    Motivation is very important in language learning, so we should do all we can motivate learners.

●    Learners are different from one another (in learning style, age, personality) so we should try to personalize our teaching to match their learning needs and preferences. We can do this by varying our teaching style, approaches, materials, topics, etc.

●    Learners may find a silent period useful, but some learners, especially adults, may not.

●    We should encourage learner to use English as much as possible in their out-of-class time. This increases their exposure it. They could, for example, listen to the radio programmes or songs, read books or magazines, look at websites, make English-speaking friends, talk to tourists, write to English-speaking penfriends, etc.

●    We should try to simplify our language to a level that learners can learn from, and avoid correcting them too much. They need to build up their fluency, motivation and confidence, and have opportunities to pick up and experiment with language.

●    In the classroom we should try to praise learners and give them as much individual attention as we can.

---------from The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Course, Originally published by Cambridge University Press, 2005

Studying Notes
  You can find that the writer always emphasizes the importance of motivation. Motivation is very important, it drives you go ahead. My biggest motivation in learning English maybe I like it, I wish I would travel around the world at one time, and I know if the days come, English language will help me a lot. In learning process, learners need impetuses to study. The major impetus may be this that you found it useful. You need to communicate and interact with the person who speaks English. You find more opportunities to get job because you can speak English. And with the help of English, you begin to use a new way to see the world, new views, new angles and new ideas.

And we can not ignore the role of the teachers in the learning process. Teachers offer a beacon of hope to the learners. They act as a beacon to the learners. They inspire or encourage the learners. If you meet a good teacher in the learning process, how lucky you are.

Process: n.

1.    a series of natural developments or events that produce gradual change

Coal was formed out of dead forests by a slow process of chemical change.

2.    a series of actions that someone takes in order to achieve a particular result

Teaching him to read was a slow process.

By a process of elimination = by proving that no other possibility is true

The identity of the dead man was established by a process of elimination.

3.    be in the process of doing sth/ be in process : to have started doing something and not yet be finished

The company is in the process of moving to new offices.

New guidelines are in process.

4.    a system or a treatment of materials that is used to produce goods

an advanced industrial process

5.    in the process: while you are doing something or something is happening

He jumped out of the tree, spraining his ankle in the process.

6.    technical a legal case, considered as a series of actions

process: v.

1.    to treat food or some other substance by adding substances to give it colour, keep it fresh etc

processed cheese

2.    to print a picture from a photographic film

3.    to deal with a document

Your application for mortgage is being processed.

4.    to put information into a computer to be examined

process: v.

to move in a procession, or to move very slowly and seriously

processed food: food that has been specially treated before it is sold, in order to make it look more attractive or last longer