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Matching Teaching Styles with Learning Styles in East Asian Contexts - 0 views

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  • The assumption underlying the approach taken here is that the way we teach should be adapted to the way learners from a particular community learn
  • In East Asia, most students see knowledge as something to be transmitted by the teacher rather than discovered by the learners.
  • closure-oriented style for most East Asian students. These closure-oriented students dislike ambiguity, uncertainty or fuzziness.
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  • lectures, conversations, and oral directions without any visual backup are very confusing and can be anxiety-producing
  • Another characteristically East Asian learning style is visual learning.
  • Korean students insist that the teacher be the authority and are disturbed if this does not happen
  • concrete-sequential, analytic and field-independent styles
  • They typically base judgement on logic and analysis rather than on feelings of others, the emotional climate and interpersonal values. Compared with American students, Japanese students, like most Asians, show greater reflection (Condon, 1984), as shown by the concern for precision and for not taking quick risk in conversation
  • Diagnosing learning styles and developing self-aware EFL learners Altering the teaching style to create teacher-student style matching Encouraging changes in students' behavior and fostering guided style-stretching Providing activities with different groupings
  • ffective matching between teaching style and learning style can only be achieved when teachers are, first of all, aware of their learners' needs, capacities, potentials and learning style preferences in meeting these needs.
  • In all academic classrooms, no matter what the subject matter, there will be students with multiple learning styles and students with a variety of major, minor and negative learning styles. An effective means of accommodating these learning styles is for teachers to change their own styles and strategies and provide a variety of activities to meet the needs of different learning styles.
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Business is ready for the right skills | Education | Guardian Weekly - 0 views

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Skills-based teaching Business English

shared by The Consultants-E on 31 Dec 08 - Cached
  • We are not experts on how to give an effective presentation, lead a successful meeting or network at conferences.
  • Terms such as meetings, presentations, telephoning, socialising and negotiating help to define what business people need to do in English.
  • Successful businesses people are multi-taskers and multi-skilled. They don't walk into a presentation and only "present". They also socialise with audience members beforehand and write emails to follow up contacts afterwards.
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  • Students also seem familiar with them and more readily respond to a lesson aimed at teaching the language for something practical like how to "socialise at dinner" than distinguishing between the past simple and present perfect
  • Comfort sees many of the old skills as channels we use to communicate rather than as skills on their own. So while the channel might be a conversation via an online webcam, he says "skills such as 'active listening', 'exposing your intention', 'influencing' are the underlying skills that support all communication.
  • Giving feedback or providing the tools for learners to assess their own performance, for example by videoing a student, is part of this process. With groups we can encourage peer feedback and allow classrooms to become forums to discuss what is effective behaviour or successful communication
  • In the past teachers perceived that they were expected to comment on issues such as the quality of the learner's visual aids or meaningful body language. As a result, some embraced the opportunity to switch from language teacher to paralinguistic guru (with varying results) but the majority shied away from communication skills.
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Using the Internet Online ELT resources Skills-based teaching Business skills BBC

shared by The Consultants-E on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
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    Activities for business skills & language: Telephoning, Meetings, Presentations, & Negotiations
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