First, by watching their group teaching work, I always get a lot of benefit from each group. For the two groups of teaching speaking, two different in teaching speaking and help me to realize how to teach Speaking. Writing and reading are two of the important targets of the system of examination in Taiwan until “Revolution of Education” for several years . Lastly,teacher in Taiwan pay attention to teach speaking better than before. As a matter of fact, students also need to get a big examination when they want to study in superior high school or university. They still have to face the music. How can the teachers do?
Just do it!.
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April 26, 2007 at 1:50 am
Alice Chiu
It’s true that in this test-oriented educational context, how we teach is greatly affected by how students are tested. This explains why reading has been the sole emphasized skills for many years. The good news is: nowadays, most people are aware that the purpose of learning English is not only for exams but for communication in the real world. Therefore, listening, speaking and writing are emphasized too. And this is why in our course, all of the groups integrated all skills into their teaching activities. I think future teachers know the trend and would adjust their teaching strategies so as to provide students with more chances to practice reading, writing, listening and speaking. We need to avoid to give in to the test-led concept. It’s not to say that we don’t need to prepare out students for exams. However, our responsibility is not to train them to become excellent test-takers, but good communicators of English. I always believe there are ways that can help achieve the goal. We need to try hard and think more!