Teaching English a Myth or a Reality?

How to Render a Teacher's Input in Class Meaningful and a Learner's Educational Learning Output Purposeful?

In the realm of teaching English as a foreign language, an overwhelming score of teachers, mistakenly, view their teaching experiences as a migraine and the anecdote to which is along way off. Very often teacher seem to be very pre-occupied with the question whether their students will successfully assimilate the target language (TL) presented during every class session.
In fact, their anxiety may slightly sound reasonable if the teaching environment, where they work doesn't meet their aspirations. That is to say, the workplace lacks many of the pre-requisite tools for teaching. Having said that; it is incumbent upon pro-active teachers to, sensibly, make use of whatever ways and means available to carry out their teaching tasks. Putting the blame on the absence of adequate tools and succumbing to such demotivating views will serve nothing but rather qualitatively undermine our desired teaching results.
Against this background, forthcoming are some tips if properly incorporated in the teaching process, they may help overcome the aforesaid pitfalls and eventually render the teaching experience more fruitful and enjoyable.
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Lesson Planning

Knowing beforehand what are you going to teach in class, the procedures to follow as well s the aim behind every lesson are highly indispensable elements quality teachers should adhere to. As such, a well-planned always helps the teacher to consistently transfer any target language. Also, a good lesson plan remains a reliable remainder to teachers in cases the get distracted. Accordingly; the points that follow should be constantly integrated in any lesson plan:
•An analysis of the language intended to be taught regarding Meaning, form, Pronunciation and Appropriacy (formal or informal register).
•Indicating how you will convey and check meaning of your TL.
•Identifying problems that you anticipate students may have with Meaning, Form and Pronunciation and, hence, suggesting solutions accordingly.
•Identifying who is interacting during every step of your lesson (Teacher to students, Students to Students, Student to Student or Open Class).

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Classroom management

Unquestionably the classroom is the teacher's conventional terrain where he performs his educational tasks. Thus, the better he manipulates that terrain, the easier and more successful his mission becomes. Yet, it is of much regret to say that many teachers are hostage to the view that the classroom is the place where the teacher knows all and his role to feed the learner. The teacher is the information presenter and the learner is the passive consumer. So, it high time teacher knew that we're living in an era where information is the easiest and most reachable due to the high-tech means of communication. Teachers need to professionalize their performance in class .They need to integrate the communicative based-approach in their teaching. The teacher is a facilitator and the learner is the main doer and performer in class. If we keep teaching our students the way we have been thought in the past, we'll rob them of their future and deny them their righteous access to what technology and science present them today.

Rachid Elalaoui