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TAG : Student Problems

How to get them talking

How can teachers get their students to interact in a way that's beneficial?

In Blogs: Geoff Richards - 3rd January 2010

If students don't learn to interact with their teacher and other students in English during P1 to 4 then they'll find themselves struggling to do so by the time that they enroll at a private language centre because they're preparing for university or want a better job.

Tags: teaching in thailand teaching methodology classroom activities student problems teaching target language classroom objectives teaching conversation teaching pronunciation

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

EFL teaching in Thailand

What’s the best and the worst class you’ve ever taught?

In Blogs: Tom Tuohy - 1st July 2009

Having been teaching for more than twelve years in places like Japan, the UK, West Africa, Thailand and the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, I guess you could say that I would have inevitably had a few moments when I was far from in control.

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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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Back to school

A brief overview of primary and secondary schools in Thailand

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st June 2008

There are three main kinds of schools in Thailand: government schools, private schools and international schools. Internationals schools are the most expensive, with average yearly fees ranging from 200,000 to 600,000 baht, depending on the quality and reputation of the school.

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A very bad day indeed

Today was one of the most unpleasant in my four years plus of teaching

In Blogs Archived: Tazza's Thailand Tales - 1st December 2007

My problem was discipline. You see, I've been teaching for over four years and until today I had only received two complaints.

Tags: teacher problems thai students teacher opinions teacher roles thai attitudes student discipline teaching kids student problems student motivation teacher respect

A Thai student’s diary

What it feels like to be a Thai student studying English in school

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 1st August 2007

A foreign teacher contacted ajarn wanting to share a diary that one of his English program students had written. Although the student is only a youngster, the diary is a very frank account of what it's like to study at a Thai school. Top work!

Tags: teaching in thailand thai students thai attitudes student discipline student problems student motivation student behavior student activities student attitudes student participation

Gogo loves neeps and tatties

A study of language oddities

In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st March 2007

What kind of English should students learn? British or American? Maybe Australian or South-African English? According to me, this is really a non-issue. It doesn’t matter what kind of English Asian students learn; as long as they attain a decent level of fluency and proficiency in any kind of English, they’ll have achieved their target.

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No magic bullets

Dave Patterson would most certainly like a word

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 17th November 2006

Dave Patterson, who is a teacher at the Prince of Songkhla University in South Thailand, says it's about time Thai students took studying English seriously. And it's about time schools got serious about taking care of their students.

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