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the multicolored diary teaching skip to main skip to sidebar showing posts with label teaching show all posts showing posts with label teaching show all posts friday march 20 2015 teaching english has never been about grammar tests i tell stories in english i write and publish in english i got a fulbright scholarship and i am doing my phd in the usa i read books in english for fun i watch tv shows in english at this point i am technically bilingual none of this would have happened if i didn t have great english teachers including my mother my mother never sat down with me to fill out grammar tests she never made me practice past perfect or spanish conjugations in the afternoon what she did was a lot more important and a lot more effective than that as i grew up i watched her day after day take honest enjoyment from using the language i saw her with english books in her hand reading for fun i saw her watch tv shows and movies i heard her sing along with english and spanish songs and she taught them to me too and most of all i watched her prepare for all of her classes with incredible excitement passion and attention to detail she didn t make me learn the language she made me like the language and she does the same with her students too many language teachers in hungary think that language is about grammar they make the students painfully fill out pages after pages of grammar tests and incomplete sentences often explaining all the rules in hungarian and barely speaking english in class at all this is due to our national system of language certificates that are based on tests with a smaller oral component the general belief is that once you have the grammar down pat speaking will come easy that is not how it works at all people will stress out about perfect grammar and rather not say anything they are not sure about hence most english teachers regard anything that is not a workbook as a complete waste of time things like singing things like playing things like watching tv shows together things like riddles things like tongue twisters things like reading harry potter things like storytelling things like a creative english contest my mother works for a bilingual vocational high school in the past five years she has been organizing a regional english contest that fit her philosophy of teaching it was supposed be above all fun for the students it was a kind of talent show where participants could sing or tell stories of perform scenes from a play or even rap there were cookies and drinks a general good mood and multiple prizes not because of the everyone gets a trophy mentality but because my mother understood that teenagers standing up in front of a crowd performing creative work in a foreign language and enjoying it is one hell of an accomplishment in itself an accomplishment that would even make most english teachers break out in hives i might add this year they decided to take the contest away from her they said they will make it better more respectful to the reputation of the school they will have frontal audiences sitting politely no food no drinks no music and most of all no english there will be a hierarchy of winners from best to worst it will be great i have seen my mother and her way of teaching work wonders on highschoolers they passed language exams with flying colors to the endless surprise of team dry grammar i have seen many of them go on to scholarships semesters abroad or bilingual jobs and i have read the emails they send her years later when they finally realize how much of an advantage her teaching style has given them it is not about grammar it is not about present perfect it is not about perfect at all it is about self confidence creativity and fun some teachers will never understand that but the good ones do posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 3 20 pm 6 comments labels english esl learning schools teaching older posts home subscribe to posts atom the multicolored diary meet the storyteller the wanderings 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