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Apply Now!Home / TEFL Videos / TEFL Videos - Theories, Methods & Techniques of Teaching - Nature vs. Nurture
This presentation is going to focus on the theories, methods and techniques of teaching and we're going to start with a quote. This is an interesting quotation because it contains within it a philosophical argument and it's a philosophical argument in the way in which we learn. Basically, this one is saying that the intelligence of their own children comes about due to a natural process. So this one could be said to be due to nature. This is exactly the opposite of this one, which is saying that they're teaching the environment that we create, creates that intelligence. So this one can be said to be due to nurture and this argument 'nature versus nurture' has been going on for thousands of years. These two viewpoints are two ends of a scale, or a continuum if you like, and every teaching methodology that's ever been created has its starting point somewhere on this scale. For example, if a particular methodology has its starting point here, then that would be fifty percent due to nature and fifty percent is due to nurture.
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Prior to commencing a language class, placement tests are vital to enable know the language level of a student and should, therefore, be part a language class. The best way to monitor the progress of students is by providing continual assessments. Evaluation should be done to; measure the progress of the students, identify strengths and weaknesses of students and deal with them accordingly as well as identifying the current language level of the student.This unit covers the complex topic of present tenses in the English language. These include present simple, present perfect, present simple continuous and present perfect continuous. Each of these tenses come with there own set of rules, and exceptions to the rules. The rules include the words that should be used to construct a sentence as well as any modifications that should be made to the verb e.g. adding 'ing', 'ed' or s/es to the end of the verb.
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