TEACHING ACROSS PROFICIENCY LEVELS

Defining proficiency levels

Proficiency levels range from 0 (unable to function in the spoken language) to 5 (speaking proficiency is functionally equivalent that to that of a highly articulate, well-educated native speaker). The teacher has to be able to teach whatever level beginning levels, intermediate levels, and advanced levels.

Teaching beginning levels

Teaching beginners is considered by many to be the most challenging level of a language instruction, for in this level the majority of students do not know anything about the target language. Therefore, the teachers have to be patient with them. Moreover, there are ten factors that can help to teachers to approach to the students, for example one of them is teacher talk. It refers to speak clearly and slowly, but not too slow, use simple vocabulary, and not need to talk louder.

Teaching intermediate levels

The students have progressed beyond novice stages to an ability to sustain basic communicative tasks, to establish some minimal fluency. In this stage, they are able to establish a conversation with vocabulary according to their level. Intermediate levels consider the same 10 factors of beginning levels, but   they are more complex that in the past for example: student's cognitive learning processes consists in the mental processes of communication are starting to automatize.   

Teaching advanced levels

The students are able to talk with fluency along with a greater degree of accuracy. When the students are in this level, they are nearer to fulfill their objectives because they are in the top of their English levels. Moreover, this level has the same ten factors that help to develop their English. One of the ten factors is techniques; some techniques that teachers can use in this level are group debates, argumentation, and complex role-plays; moreover, they are able to write essays, summarize, responses, and critiques.   

TEACHING ACROSS AGE LEVELS

Everybody knows that teaching children, teens and adults are not the same. Therefore, teachers cannot use the same techniques for each age levels because each level is totally different to the others. They should not be ready only in a specific level. Either adults or children have the same right for learning if they want to. Moreover, each age levels have different ways to see the life, for example adults take their studies very serious, but some children and teens see their studies like something that they must to do and pass. 

Teaching children

Children are full of energy, and their brain is young and fresh. Moreover, they don't have responsibilities that affect them (in the majority of cases) the teacher has to take advantage of that energy and canalize it. Children learn better when they are motivated; for that reason, teacher should motivate their students, creating an atmosphere of confidence.

Teaching adults

In teaching adults, the teachers can use some principles of teaching children but in different way because adults cannot be treating like children. They have acquired a self-confidence that teachers cannot find in children. Moreover, they are more able to handle abstract rules and concepts, adults with their more developed abstract thinking ability, are better able to understand a context-reduced segment of language.

Teaching teens

Teachers have to consider to students that are in a stage of transition, confusing, self-consciousness, growing, and changing body and minds. On the other hand, they are in between childhood and adulthood. This age level is a little complicated because they have to design a special set of considerations apply to teaching them. Moreover, students in this age levels are able to abstract operational thought and to increase capacities for abstraction lessen the essential nature of appealing to all five senses.