Which student's level takes more effort from a teacher beginner or advanced? Why?
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The beginner level because as a teacher you need to have a balance between teaching new things, making sure that the student understands and also helping them practice
From my experience it will be the beginners level this is because visual aids are highly necessary for the student to understand better than the auditory.
From my experience I would have to say beginner students. You need to make sure the understand what you are saying. I use visual aids,flash cards and repition to help with beginner students
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- Hanlie RobbertseCertified ESL , Business English and IELTS Teacher
Beginner level because you need to make sure they understand, learn and also don’t get bored.
- Manthoula XenidouGreek Archaeologist - Philologist / Certified teacher of English as a second language
To me, the student with an advanced level will be more challenging because English isn't my native language, which means that there are words I may not know, for example. Advanced students tend to, as they should, have great expectations from their tutors and I don't want to disappoint them. Challenging ourselves, though is the one thing that makes us move forward in life, but it takes more effort. When it comes to the beginners I have great patience and I have been in their shoes. So, despite the difficulties that may arise throughout the whole introducing the language process, we will find a way to make it effortless (as much as we can) and entertaining.
I can't say the level but I have to deal with students suffering from dyslexia. It can be in all types of students whether beginners or advance.
it depends upon the passion of the student, more he is passionate, more he inquiring he will be.
This question is subjective as all students are different. For advanced learners the challenge is keeping them motivated because some feel they are not learning enough because they are not learning new vocabulary at the same rate. To keep them motivated you should focus on improving their use of the language and understanding how meaning changes according to context and the none literal parts of the language, an example is things like idioms and collocations. For beginners motivation comes from encouragement and constantly highlighting their progress and reminding them that we learn more from mistakes. You also need to give lots of constructive feedback so as to not discourage them. Build a strong foundation especially when it comes to sentence structure.
I believe that it depends with the student. we have beginner students who are easy to deal with and we have advanced student who are difficult. it just depends on the person
I think both go equally because teachers must be prepared with plans to overcome the accumulative weakness or motivating the beginners forward plus plans to support the advanced learners to keep up their efforts.
It depends on both, on the one hand it's up to how serious the student takes his or her assignments and if they really like the language and they are progressing steadily, and on the other hand it's up to what level of teaching the tutor feels more comfortable to teach, personally i prefer A1-b2 levels because i like to have a person that knows very little or nothing and have the privilege of being the tutor that helped the student learn and build with them a language they didn't know!
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