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Teaching and Practices of English

This document discusses teaching and learning practices in English. It covers several topics: 1. What is learning and the principles of learning, including that it is a human behavior, accumulation of knowledge and skills, and requires readiness, exercises, effects, primacy, recency, intensity and fulfillment of needs. 2. The process of learning, including active involvement, constructivism, informal learning, direct experience, feedback, fun environment and reflection. Learning is an experience that occurs inside the learner. 3. The learning process, including readiness, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, cognitive, psychomotor and affective aspects. Readiness is influenced by maturity and experience and impacts teaching strategies.

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Teaching and Practices of English

This document discusses teaching and learning practices in English. It covers several topics: 1. What is learning and the principles of learning, including that it is a human behavior, accumulation of knowledge and skills, and requires readiness, exercises, effects, primacy, recency, intensity and fulfillment of needs. 2. The process of learning, including active involvement, constructivism, informal learning, direct experience, feedback, fun environment and reflection. Learning is an experience that occurs inside the learner. 3. The learning process, including readiness, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, cognitive, psychomotor and affective aspects. Readiness is influenced by maturity and experience and impacts teaching strategies.

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Teaching and Practices of English

1.

What is learning:

1. Human behaviour

2. Accumulation of knowledge and skills and attitudes. (KSA)

3. Medium of learning

4. Continuous, not perioditic

5. Learning is source for ( motivation, satisfaction, stimulation)

6. Meaning-permanent change in bahaviour

7. Passive and active learning

Principles of Learning:

1. Readiness (concentration and eagerness)- Physically, Mentally, and emotionally

2. Exercises (repetitions)

3. Effects (pleasant feelings)

4. Primacy (start correctly)

5. Recency (time after learn)

6. intensity (real thing/concrete rather than abstract)

7. Requirement (fulfill the need)

8. Freedom of learning

2.

Process of Learning:

1.EWELL(1997)

-Active involvement

-Constructivism

-Informal learning

-Direct experience

-Compelling situation
-Continuous feedback

-Fun environment

-Reflection

2.Horne & Pine (1990)

-Learning is an EXPERIENCE which occurs inside the learner and is activated by the learner.

-Learner's effort

-learning (behavioural change is the aftermath of experience

-working together (cooperative and collaborative)

3.

Learning Process

1. Learning readiness

-What need to be learnt

-When they are receptive to learn

-How they learn best

Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs (1943)

-Physiological needs

-Safety needs

-Belongingness and love needs

-Esteem

-Self-actualisation

Aspects of Learning Readiness

-Cognitive

-Psychomotor

-Affective

Influences towards Learning Readiness

-Maturity

-Experience
Implications of Learning Readiness to Teaching & Learning

-Acquainted with students

-Suitability of lesson content

-Delivery of lesson content (eg: language adjustment)

-Learning Resources

-Learning activities

-Teaching strategies (cooperative learning & differentiated instruction)

-Lesson content levelling (from easy to challenging)

-Enhancement & intervention programme

-Students management

4. Individual Differences & Learning (Part 1)

CONTENT

- Aspects of individual differences (physical, cognitive, socio emotion, learner’s background, learners
with special needs)

- Intelligence

-Implication of teaching from these

DEFINITION

- Slavin

ASPECTS

- Physical
o Genetic causes the differences such as body shape and personality traits (Sheldon, 1942)
o Different in terms of gender, appearance & body size , physical skills
- Cognitive
o Different interms of mentality, learning, memory, resoning, analysing abilities &
intelligence.
o Galton, Goddard, Newman & Shieldo had proved that everyone has different level of
intelligence and mental ability in the same age group
o Difference in intelligence can be observed from their academic performance
o Intelligent parents usually will make smart children.
- Socio emotion
o
- Learner’s background
o Family influence
o Peer group
o Society culture & belief
o Technological resources in urban & rural environment
o Teachers & school
- Learners with special needs

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