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Sindy Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

My students can't speak English

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00The point is I'm currently working as an English teacher. I'm teaching English as a second language. I've got a slew of problems with my students, because they can write, read, however, they can't speak coherently. Indeed, they can't speak at all. I've been working at this school for five months already. Though, I don't see any results at the moment. 02br
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00The curriculum and the books, we are using, are very boring. However, we should strictly stick to the curriculum. You know, it is extremely difficult to work with such a curriculum and with students, who don't know the basics.02br
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0 In my opinion, it is imperative that you stray from the curriculum as it is set down. Otherwise you'll never accomplish your goal. You may have to do this by introducing your own very short lessons at first.

  • 0 In my opinion, it is imperative that you stray from the curriculum as it is set down.
  • Otherwise you'll never accomplish your goal.
  • You may have to do this by introducing your own very short lessons at first.
  • With the level of student you seem to be describing I believe you will have to start with very basic repetition drills.
  • You know the sort of thing I'm sure: "Repeat after me: Good morning.
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0 In my opinion, it is imperative that you stray from the curriculum as it is set down. Otherwise you'll never accomplish your goal. You may have to do this by introducing your own very short lessons at first. With the level of student you seem to be describing I believe you will have to start with very basic repetition drills. You know the sort of thing I'm sure: "Repeat after me: Good
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00 Being a beginner student of English is hard. There are many obstacles like personal and learning problems that make a student to take a lot of time in learning a new language.02br
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0well i would suggest that you would go to a store and get some games that can teach them to speak english!!!!! but not in a bad way or you can get them flash cards your truly a secret student that had the same troubles 05002br
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Hey, bub! I think I know what you mean. I was teaching at a school and facing this same problem. The classtime does not allow you to do any extras, so you got save it for the curriculum. One thing that helped me was that I killed some steps of the book for some livelier extras, speaking extras. In the beginning I made them really easy activities for I wanted my students to feel a little more secu
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Hi,
I have been teaching English to adults in Asian countries and I understand your problem. The best advice that I can give is the same that was given to me and which words well.
1. Tell your students "You learn to speak English with you ears, not your eyes." and keep reinforcing it. Teach them to understand that English is not a phonetic language. They should try to see each word as mo
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I am shocked at the poor English used by several of the 'so-called' English tutors on this site!

For students to learn good English, surely they need a good model to follow?

The main obstacle to learning to speak and write English would appear to be that too many English tutors cannot actually speak or write English correctly themselves.
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Hi,

Thanks for the comment. I hope that you will be able to find the time to help improve the level of English around here.

Best wishes,

Clive
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You should follow the curriculum. Beside that, you can do various things to inspire your student
to speak English. Actually if we don't try to speak English, we will never learn to speak English.
Motivate your students.
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I think those books are not exactly what you're looking for. They are more about teaching vocabulary than teaching what to say in the most common situations....
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Emotion: smile can you help me to speak english pls!

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