A positive relationship between the student and the target language is as important as the positive relationship between the student and the teacher. The positive learning environment is essential. The classes with my English teacher in primary school were boring. The situation improved in high school, but everything changed when I attended a summer school in Reading, UK. For the first time in my life I enjoyed my English classes; the teachers were so motivating, cheerful, interesting... everything I wanted. I wanted to be like them... I was fascinated by them... and at the age of 20, while still at University, I started working in a language school. I loved teaching so much, and yes, my teachers from UK were my role model! I have been teaching 21 years now and I always try to be entertaining, funny, interesting and motivating for my students. And yes, affective language teaching leads to successful language learning!
Hi Carolina, I've read something very interesting about this: "the teller is free, the reader is bound." The reader uses the printed pages, the teller uses the body, eyes, face expressions, and most important: the imagination.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Núria!! That actually helps a lot
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Carolina! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat answer Núria. I would just add saying in other words that readers are more loyal to the actual script and that tellers reinterpret the story in their ways. Both are important and have different goals. The experience is different as in story reading the action happens a lot inside the child's head and in telling it also happens outside.
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Núria Vintró What a beautifully poetic way to put it, Nuria :)
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