1.Learner-Centered Instruction
Focuses on learner’s needs, interest, goals, preferences
Gives control to the students
Includes student’s input and suggestion
Improves students’ sense of intrinsic motivation
Allows students’ creativity
Students sense the feeling of “ownership”
-> enhance students’ self worth
Ⅰ. The Aims of English Education
Students should study English as a required cultural object so that they may recognize their places in the international society and be provided with fundamental basic for taking part in the future international activities.
1. General Aims of English Education
‣ To cultivate interests and confidence in English and to enhance the ability of 1communicat
Teaching Advanced Levels
Characteristics of the advanced levels:
• Ongoing attempt to gain natural and automatic language use
• Learner-centered teaching is needed the most of all these levels.
• Attention to sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspectives
• Activities that require students’ critical thinking
Grade level: Advanced
Subject: Advantages and d
T: We’ve learned the eating habits of the U.S. and Canada so far. We’re going to learn the one of England today. There are a lot of differences in eating habits between England and the other English-speaking countries. Look at the blackboard and read the objectives together.
Ss: You can explain of the features of British eating habits. You can distinguish British eating habits from the ones
learner-centered learning environment.
2. While they are doing the team work, there can be free-riders. It is not guaranteed that all the students equally participate in the group working.
The teacher needs to monitor the process that the students are going through. Or peer evaluation among the group members can take place in order to prevent the free-riders.
3. Since students ha