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.
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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.
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