I was impressed by Chad and his Kazakh. There are 4 pieces of advice that I got from him:
1) If you go abroad choose home-stay - it is the best way to learn a language. By the way I heard the same advice from Jon Larsen. I think it is important to have native speakers around you so that you HAVE TO learn a language! It is a great motivation.
2) make students create a real-life situation and speak English with someone at home while, for example, drinking tea, as a home work assignment. Nowadays many parents speak English, there are also brothers or sisters who know English but unfortunately they don't want to speak with their little brothers so that they could improve the language. Some of them don't do it because they are too lazy and impatient to teach their little brothers and sisters, some of then are too busy to help them.
3) Give each student a glass where you can put a bean for each well-done work. Then at the end of the week we can count them and award the students with the most beans. It is external motivation and can help make students interested in learning. Also it can help improve the discipline. The last advice he gave is concerned with learning Kazakh language:
4) Speak Kazakh with one another! Don't be ashamed and don't laugh at somebody who makes mistakes. It concerns those who knows Kazakh and laugh at those who just try to learn it. It is difficult for me as a Kazakh to learn it because when I try to speak Kazakh, because as a teacher I know the best way to learn a language is practice, everybody around me begin laughing at my poor language. If my language is ridiculous, then teach me! Of course when non-native speaker learns Kazakh everybody praises him/her. That's why it is difficult for me to learn Kazakh. In conclusion I suggest you the following picture just for fun:
1) If you go abroad choose home-stay - it is the best way to learn a language. By the way I heard the same advice from Jon Larsen. I think it is important to have native speakers around you so that you HAVE TO learn a language! It is a great motivation.
2) make students create a real-life situation and speak English with someone at home while, for example, drinking tea, as a home work assignment. Nowadays many parents speak English, there are also brothers or sisters who know English but unfortunately they don't want to speak with their little brothers so that they could improve the language. Some of them don't do it because they are too lazy and impatient to teach their little brothers and sisters, some of then are too busy to help them.
3) Give each student a glass where you can put a bean for each well-done work. Then at the end of the week we can count them and award the students with the most beans. It is external motivation and can help make students interested in learning. Also it can help improve the discipline. The last advice he gave is concerned with learning Kazakh language:
4) Speak Kazakh with one another! Don't be ashamed and don't laugh at somebody who makes mistakes. It concerns those who knows Kazakh and laugh at those who just try to learn it. It is difficult for me as a Kazakh to learn it because when I try to speak Kazakh, because as a teacher I know the best way to learn a language is practice, everybody around me begin laughing at my poor language. If my language is ridiculous, then teach me! Of course when non-native speaker learns Kazakh everybody praises him/her. That's why it is difficult for me to learn Kazakh. In conclusion I suggest you the following picture just for fun:
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