As a language learner myself, I want my learning experience to be motivating and fun. Learning a language can be incredibly difficult and challenging at times, and it helps when the material gives me energy.
As you might have read on the “About Me”-page, I am an experienced elementary teacher and I have found opportunities to use my school approach in my work for The Dutchest Thing. Here are the key elements:
- Building confidence in steps by focusing on passive language development first (reading and listening) and the active language development second (writing and speaking).
- Offering clear and relevant examples.
- Asking why an answer might be right and discussing it in-depth, rather than saying an answer is right or wrong.
- Anticipating to the needs of my students, rather than demanding them to conform to my needs.
- Taking the time when that is needed, and speeding up when the opportunity is there.
- Creating learning opportunities by asking you to think, rather than having me correct you.