Good Language Teachers

and Learners

BY
INDAH EFTANASTARINI
NIM. S200130057
 Characteristic of Good Language Teachers

Ten slogans to be good advice for teacher:

1. Teaching is more an art than a science
2. No methodologist has the whole answer
3. Try to avoid the pendulum syndrome
4. Place a high value on practical
experimentation without doctrinaire
allegiance
5. Look at various relevant disciplines for insight
6. View objectives as an overriding consideration
7. Regard all tested techniques as resources
8. Attach as much importance to what your
students say as how they say it
9. Let your greatest concern be the needs and
motivation of your students
10. Remember that what is new is not necessarily
better.
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MOTIVATION
(Finocchiaro,
1976)
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 Teacher Development (Finocchiaro, 1988)

1. Planning lessons several days in

advance
2. Keeping a simple brief checklist of the
material presented
3. Writing the homework assignment for
the next lesson
4. Never giving homework over a holiday
5. Always greeting the class cheerfully
6. Indicating your awareness of individual
students
7. Giving 30-second for written quiz everyday
8. Routine for distributing and collecting
papers
9. Sending an able student to the chalkboard to
ask questions
10. Returning the test papers to the students
11. Leaving your lesson plan in your desk when
you will be absent
 Qualities of Good Teachers

1. Inspiration
2. Enthusiasm
3. Professional competence
4. Consider the affective
development of the students
5. Tolerance, patient, warmth,
sensibility, and open mindedness
 Characteristics of Good Language Learners

Rubin (1979) discovered seven things that good

language learners did as follows:
1. Willing and accurate guessers
2. Have a strong drive to communicate
3. Often not inhibited
4. Think about correct grammar and sentence
structure when they speak
5. Seek out practice
6. Monitor their own speech and speech of others
7. Think about the meaning of the sentences they say
and hear.
 4 Basic Strategies

4 Basic Strategies which Good Language

Learners Employ (Naiman et al.,1978, Stern,
1983), namely :
1. Active planning strategy
2. ‘academic’ learning strategy
3. Social learning strategy
4. Affective leaning strategy
 Characteristics of Good Language Learners
(Rubin &Thompson, 1982)

1. Take and create opportunities to use the

language
2. Practice what they have just acquired
3. They are willing to try anything in order to
get their message across
4. They don’t give up so easily
5. Monitor their own speech as well as the
speech of others.
6. Constantly analyze, categories, and
synthesize their new language.
7. They are a systematic organizer
8. Experiment with different learning
methods.
9. They make errors work.
10.They are a friendly initiator of
conversation.
THANK YOU