TAG : Student Motivation

A student success story

Helping a Thai student bring home the bacon

In Blogs: Benito Vacio - 1st June 2010

In teaching, we, teachers, must think of an ingenious way to make our students learn using varied types of materials and different kinds of strategies for every student has his/her own learning style.

Tags: teaching in thailand teaching methodology student motivation teaching materials teaching vocabulary student activities student participation teaching styles student competitions


Great Expectations

When parents of students are simply too demanding

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 2nd October 2009

The demands and expectations that some parents burden their children with are alas often too great. At the moment I’m teaching a kid who hasn’t even turned six, yet his life revolves solely around learning.

Tags: teaching in thailand thai students teaching methodology teaching kids student problems student motivation student behavior teaching target language student attitudes language schools


The Ideal Student

What qualities and characteristics make the perfect student

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st July 2009

This month's column doesn't focus on teachers and how to achieve near-perfection, but on what the ideal student would be like. Let's keep in mind though that nobody's perfect and that most teachers would probably be over the moon if only a slight majority of students showed some of the traits mentioned

Tags: student discipline student problems student motivation student behavior student attitudes student participation ideal student


The Ideal Teacher

What makes the perfect teacher in the EFL classroom?

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st March 2009

Let me point out that this list is based more on personal experience than large-scale research. Also, while most qualities on the list are probably appreciated worldwide, some are considered particularly important in the Land of Smiles.

Tags: teaching in thailand teaching in asia teacher values teaching principles student motivation teacher respect qualified teachers student attitudes teaching taboos perfect teacher


The root of all evil

A return to the subject of student materials

In Blogs Archived: Matt Smith - 1st March 2009

I think choosing content that encourages students to think in scientific ways facilitates their English language acquisition.

Tags: teaching methodology student motivation student behavior teaching target language teaching materials teaching vocabulary student attitudes student learning difficulties


Terry of the Bangkok Post

What's black and white and read all over?

In Blogs Archived: Ken May - 1st December 2008

To promote learning via newspapers, Terry Fredrickson has turned to the technology that many children love most – the Internet.

Tags: teaching methodology bangkok post newspaper student motivation teaching materials teaching websites learning methodology terry fredrickson learning with newspapers


On Reading

Is the golden age of reading truly over?

In Blogs Archived: Matt Smith - 1st November 2008

Now we have new communications mediums that, firstly, are more naturally intriguing to the human brain – they offer images, moving, real-time pictures, and sound all at the same time.

Tags: teacher roles student problems student motivation student participation


Ignorance or arrogance?

Students and their lack of proper test preparation

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st July 2008

Teachers who have taught TOEFL or IELTS courses can attest that for non-native speakers, doing well on these tests translates into a lot of hard work. Apart from becoming proficient in English, students will also need to fine-tune their test-taking skills and build up their endurance and concentration, as these tests usually take about four hours to complete.

Tags: student motivation student attitudes toefl ielts test preparation courses student tests university requirements standardized tests


Ways to improve Thai education

This should be the first government priority

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st March 2008

So how can Thailand improve its education? In a nutshell: train the trainers, put fewer students together, motivate them better, hire the right foreign educators to help this bring about, and involve parents more.

Tags: teaching methodology teacher recruitment teacher salaries student motivation qualified teachers qualifications training private language schools education reforms xenophobia


How to motivate students

Keys to improving language learning

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st March 2008

Motivation can either be internal or external. Students who are internally motivated usually learn English because they want to, because they enjoy learning or because they want to achieve a certain goal, not because they have to. Examples of personal goals could be pursuing a promotion at work or planning to enrol in a foreign university’s graduate programme.

Tags: teaching in thailand thai students classroom management student motivation student attitudes student participation education reforms classroom equipment adult students


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