English Language Teaching Methods

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English Language Teaching Methods

The Personal SWOT Analysis will provide insights based on your personality strengths and weaknesses, challenges you see ahead, opportunities present around you now, as well as future favorable circumstances.

Presentation Practice Production

Finally, look at any threats to your career growth. This part accounts for the external factors that could hurt the chances of attaining your goals.

PRODUCTION

List out all the things that affect your work due to the external environment. See below a few examples and feel free to add your own:

1) Family problems
2) Issues in your marriage
3) Anxiety (mental health issues)
4) Childcare, etc.

The focus of this stage is using the language as fluently and naturally as possible

Language is used in a more open way

PRACTICE

Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? Will there be a drastic change?

List out future changes that you will have to add or avoid if you own a business.

If you have a job, will advancement in technology cost you your job?

The aim of this stage is accuracy.

Students use the language in a controlled way

PRESENTATION

Performing this analysis will often provide key information – it can point out what needs to be done and put problems into perspective.

These are sample questions and sample answers, please feel free to add your own questions and answers.

The teacher must be sure students understand the context.

Could any of your weaknesses lead to threats?

This is where the language is introduced, or ‘presented’ to the learners introducing a context or situation.

Are any of your colleagues competing with you for projects or roles?

Content Based Intruction

Once you have listed out your SWOT - It's now time to evaluate and determine further steps that need to be taken in order to achieve your goals.

There are mainly two methods:
1) Matching
2) Turning negatives into positives

During the lesson students are focused on learning about something.

The other method is converting your weaknesses into strengths or threats into opportunities.

For example: growing a skill set through education, finding a creative way to feature a weakness as a strength, etc.

Threat into opportunity

Weakness into strenght

How?

It can make learning a language more interesting and motivating

The focus of a CBI lesson is on the topic or subject matter.

You can evaluate your results using the matching method, which means connecting two of the categories to determine a course of action.

Please see a few examples here.

Weaknesses & Threaths

Matching weaknesses to threats exposes areas you should work on or situations to avoid, letting you know where to be more defensive as well.

Strengths & Opportunities

For example matching strengths to opportunities shows you where to be aggressive and take action.

Results

Collaborative Learning/ Cooperative Learning

This is the most important step of all: bringing the plan into action.

Start using your results to track your progress. Set up measurements and milestones and keep working toward them. Step by step, you will get where you want to be, so get started now!

Cooperative Learning

Students submit work at the end of lesson for evaluation/assessment

Teachers observe, listen and intervene where necessary

Activities are structured with each student assigned a specific role (teacher-structured)

Collaborative Learning

Students organise their efforts between themselves

Students assess their own individual and group performance

The activity is not monitored by the teacher (although they can help when assistance is requested by the group)

Total Physical Response

For the opportunities section, look at the external factors you can take advantage of in pursuing a promotion, finding a new job or determining a direction for your career.

Students will appreciate the change of pace and potential for humor

What will you gain from the opportunities that you might take advantage of?

List out all the things that will help you.

Here are some examples:

• Learning new technologies
• Interacting with people currently working in that field
• Better Pay
• I will be able to teach and help other fellow colleagues
• This will help me move up in the organization

Gainings

It sharpens students’ listening skills

'Technology' is not equal to Information Technology. For example, if you are in the soap-making business and you bring machines that speed up the process, you have introduced new technology or a process.

• Is the process you currently follow going to change?
• What changes do you need to make in the current process to improve it?
• How much time will you need to learn the new technology?

Add some questions and answers related to your industry and niche.

It works with both small and large groups

• What Niche or Industry are you currently working in?
• Do you see potential growth in your industry?
• Do you see a better opportunity where you can excel?
• Will it create more jobs?

Try to create your own questions and answers that relate to your industry.

Students actively use both the left and right sides of their brains

If you plan on changing your job or investing in your own business:

• Is this the right time to invest in your business?
• Will you get your desired salary if you change your job right now?
• Will you get the desired ROI if you invest right now?

Have you calculated the risk involved?

Add a few questions and answers of your own related to the industry that you work in.

Question

Answer

Task based learning

This part examines the areas which you need to improve and the things that will set you back in your career.

It is really important to be honest when you list out your weaknesses.

POST-TASK

It can also involve feedback provided by the teacher.

Students evaluate their performance

TASK CIRCLE

They need to plan how they are going to report it to the rest of the class or to other groups

The focus of this stage is fluency - using the language to communicate.

Ask people around you about your weaknesses - such as the colleague sitting next to you, your sibling or your best friend.

Personal Habits

Personal habits have a significant impact on people around you OR influence the impression you create in someone's mind.

List out those bad habits that you have. Here are some questions to help you:

• Do I bring strong smelling food to the office?
• Do I smell?
• Do I tell inappropriate jokes?
• Do I play out music too loud?

Bad habits

Inattentiveness

Do you pay attention to how things are in done your workplace? Each company has a different working environment, so make sure to observe how things are done in that company.

Here are some questions to help you:

• Do I pay attention to what people tell/advice me to do?
• Do I ask someone to repeat themselves because I was lost in my own thoughts?
• Do I eat my lunch on my desk while others eat in the cafeteria?
• Do I pay attention to the dress code the company follows?

My flaws

Body Language

Body language is nonverbal communication, such as facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.

List out those weaknesses here. Here are some questions to help you:

• Do I have a weak handshake?
• Am I not making eye contact while talking to someone?
• Do I subconsciously shake my leg while sitting?

Weaknesses

We'll be monitoring what students do.

Do you have stage fright? Or do you become nervous and sweaty when you give a presentation in a room full of people staring at you?

That is something you should definitely work on!

List out such things that you need to improve.

Skills to improve

Small groups or pairs are good, rather than a bigger group

Have you ever heard a mother yell at her kid 'Get off your phone or I will throw that phone away'?

Again, be honest and list out all those negative work habits that you have. Your parents/wife/husband/colleagues might help you correctly point them out if you are stuck!

Negative habits

PRE-TASK

Set the expectations for the task

We introduce the task to the students, and get them excited for the task

Project based learning

Begin by identifying your strengths. These are the traits or skills that set you apart from others.

List out all your strengths - if you get stuck, talk to people around you and ask for their input. Please be honest with yourself.

Students are encouraged to make their own decisions about how best to do their work.

Role of the teacher shifts from content-deliverer to facilitator/project manager, so students work more independently

Requires the application of knowledge and skills, not just recall or recognition.

Focuses on a big and open-ended question, challenge, or problem for the student to research and respond

These are sample questions and sample answers, please feel free to add your own questions and answers.

What are your talents, or natural-born gifts?

Skills that you are naturally born with

Have you ever heard someone say 'you are as hard-working as your dad'?

If you are unable to point them out, ask people around you, most likely someone from your family will be able to tell you your Natural Talents.

Choose from the examples below or/and add others:

Talents

What skills have you worked to develop?

What are the Skills that you have developed over time?

These are the skills you have learned because you view them as essential OR people advised you to acquire them in order to improve yourself.

Choose from the examples below or add others:

Skills

What are you good at naturally?

This is something that you learn unconsciously OR you learn by just observing someone you look up to (family/ colleagues/ teachers etc.)

Take a deep breath, close your eyes, think for a minute and type in your 'Natural Strengths' here.

Choose from the examples below or/and add others:

Natural qualities