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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4443 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 9 of 10 13 July 2013 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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Before doing anything high-tech, in a poor country with little infrastructure you need to think how you
can work with the basics. If it is older children that knows enough English you can rely on basic commands to get around. For first year learners a 2-way conversation is not a good way. You can start drawing objects on a board and write names corresponding to them. Otherwise nothing simpler than pen and paper in a country where even the most basic electricity may be available in an intermittent basis. A lot of foreigners go aboard to teach English assuming they would be able to get around in English alone. Even if you are not fluent in that country's language, out of respect for the locals you need to know a few words to get around. In this case you can try brining in every day objects and exchange conversation by labelling them in each other's languages back and forth. In other words you are learning to say things in their language and they do the same in yours. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4700 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 10 of 10 13 July 2013 at 2:29pm | IP Logged |
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I teach children English where it can start as young as three years old. While I disagree with this, it is what it is.
After doing it for about a year and a half now I know it can be done, and it can be done despite a bad curriculum, a bad teaching procedure you are forced to follow, and a lack of resources. In this respect I have found pictures to be my best friend and heavy context for the teaching of grammar. Simple pictures can be used quite well to set up a good context. Role play has also been a great way, I have found exaggerating everything to ridiculous proportions beneficial. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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