Teaching A Second Language Research Paper

Teaching students a foreign language can be a challenging job. There are special skills that a teacher needs in order to be able to help their students and be an expert in teaching that language. As a future English teacher, I have thought a lot of what is the best way for me to teach English to students who do not have it as their mother tongue. I have been to many ESL classes and observed the teachers and I have learned a great deal. I have seen good ways in which they tried to relay the information to the students and learned from their mistakes too. I gathered an amount of information that I think that will help me in becoming a good teacher and I hope I learn more along the way of me teaching it. One of the important things that a teacher need in teaching a language is the ability of delivering the information in an appropriate way. The teacher, to my way of thinking, is required to be able to inspire the students to learn the language by teaching it properly and in an interesting way for the students. The students should be interested in the class in order for them to be able to learn from it and most of it depend on how the teacher delivers his or her topics. A great deal of the students think that they do not need to learn another language, or will not be interested in perfecting the use of their own language, so they will …show more content…
There are other characteristics too, like being organized, being patient with the students, planning ahead of what is thought to be good for the students and providing them with good materials. All are characteristics that make a good teacher. Although what I mentioned in the previous paragraphs is what I think is the most