Episode Synopsis "Module 1 - Unit 2 - The Contexts of teaching English (EFL/ESL)"

Understanding the background of your students will surely help you plan and predict the possible issues that might come up in your classroom.  The link between language learning, in this case English, and culture needs to happen often in our EFL classes and technology in our classrooms will help us do this. We need to go beyond the traditional assumption of teaching English just from linguistic perspectives. If we consider how students are learning English nowadays in schools we are going to conclude that most of them perfectly know how to construct syntactically the present simple tense but they do not know how to apply it in the real world. In today's unit we will talk about the two main differences in the contexts in which your student might be learning.

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