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Dec '23 •
Knowing your students video
I'm taking a look at this video and find myself feeling bad about recently losing a client because I did not know him well enough, and pushed him a little too hard and he panicked and ended the lessons. This was absolutely not a linguistic issue; it had to do with the anxiety provoked when trying to speak English in conversation. The first half of our lessons were always me talking him down from the anxiety that I think was largely provoked by his perfectionism, and I had to continually emphasize that there is no perfect communication so he needed to accept that he could make mistakes but still communicate what he needed to communicate. Unfortunalely I misjudged this on one occasion and his anxiety was provoked in a way that he found unbearable, and so I lost a client and my guess is that he has abandoned English altogether :(x2 I'm currerntly floundering a bit with another client, but now am getting down on paper exactly what I know about his needs (probably still not enough) after about 10 hours of lessons together, and am going to try to apply the info in this video to our situation and see if I can be as precise as possible about it. Both of these guys are my "target audience" if that's the right phrase, though I also need to be more precise about what that means.
3 likes • Dec '23
Most of my students are teenagers, so anxiety is really tangible in speaking classes. I think it's a mix of peer pressure, and the fear of looking silly, plus the obvious context of their age. I think foreign language anxiety is a field that has been researched, I remember having learnt about it during an ESL teaching course. My daily challenge is having them say something...I've established a sort of Monday routine, consisting in telling the class about their weekend, they know I will ask, there is nothing challenging about it (A2-B1), and yet I still get answers such as "I did nothing", "I don't remember".🙄
Oct '22 •
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Hi everyone ! I'm Sarah. I've been teaching languages for about 25 years, starting as a Spanish and English teacher in French state secondary schools. After moving to Spain I started teaching English and French as a private tutor, specializing in helping teenagers and young adults passing their exams. I'd like to pivot and start working online maybe on a part time basis to start with, because I firmly believe that's the future of language teaching. This year is being tough. Spain is struck by the inflation crisis and I've lost quite a few students. My feeling is that I've never been as good as a teacher as I am now (did a lot of training courses, consider myself as a life long learner, plus all these years of experience), and yet it's being so very hard to get new students. I have lots of ideas to offer new products but don't really know how to fit them in my current business. I even wonder if I should just stop teaching teenagers and find new niche.
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