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How to use Spoken English Learned Quickly to teach your students fluent English
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Read the free book Learning Spoken English. (It is also available for free downloading in PDF format.)
Download the free Spoken English Learned Quickly lessons to your own computer. You may download from the two links above.
You may copy single lessons for computer study or for downloading on iPods or Handhelds using PDF or TXT format.
If your students have iPods or other MP3 players which can be uploaded from a computer, the CD of the entire course may be helpful for you. It contains all of the lessons in MP3 format with accompanying PDF and TXT texts for study on an iPod, Handheld, or smartphone. It also contains the 450-page Student Workbook and all of the study aids found on the website.
You may make as many copies of the CDs as you need. You may also sell CDs, printed lessons, or the 450-page Student Workbook to your students. If you provide MP3 players for the students to use during class, you could include that in the cost of the lessons. We are pleased when you can earn money for your effort teaching English with the Spoken English Learned Quickly lessons.
It may be helpful for you to read the free, downloadable Instructors Guide.
Print the instructions given on the Information for the Student pages. You can find an Information for the Student page in your language on the home page.
The most effective way you can teach your students to speak English is for them to use spoken English during the entire lesson time. You will be surprised at how quickly they will learn good English pronunciation and correct English grammar by speaking English. (See Chapter 3 from the book Learning Spoken English.)
You may select either the American accent or the British accent for your class instruction.
Most students who have previously studied grammar-based English probably do not pronounce English well. Therefore, they can learn much about pronunciation by starting with Lesson 1. (See Chapter 4 from the book Learning Spoken English.)
Your students will especially need to study the English verb. However, you can very effectively teach verbs using spoken English exercises — they will learn to properly use English verbs much more quickly by speaking rather than by writing. (See Chapter 6 from the book Learning Spoken English.)
Finally, if you want to be the most successful English teacher in your city, always have the students follow the Four Rules of this Spoken English Learned Quickly course. (See Chapter 2 from the book Learning Spoken English.)
Some suggestions for your class:
You are probably familiar with the emphasis made by the Direct Method of language instruction where only the target language is used. We do not feel that this emphasis is necessary or even wise — it can actually introduce a great deal of stress into the language learning time. If you have a common non-English language between yourself and your students, use it to introduce the course and to give necessary instructions. It is always appropriate to give vocabulary definitions of English words in another language.
If possible, have each student bring an MP3 player to class. Or, you may provide MP3 players that the students use during class. If the students have uploadable MP3 players, you could upload each lesson from your computer.
Have the students read Information for the Student in their own language. Then explain how you want the students to study spoken English.
If each student has an MP3 player, have the students sit far enough apart from each other so that they can speak out loud. (If the students are studying in a large area, the students may stand and walk while they are doing the exercises.) It will encourage the students to speak out loud if you walk among them so that you can listen to each student individually. If each student does not have an MP3 player, you could use a single MP3 player with all of the students repeating the English sentences together.
If you are using a single player for the entire class, it may be easier to record the CD on cassette tapes and use a cassette tape player. If you are using a single player, have the students sit as close together as possible.
During the first two repetitions of each new exercise (or lesson), have the students follow the written text. Then, have them do the rest of the study of that exercise (or lesson) without reading from the text.
After the students have learned good pronunciation while using the recordings, you could then have them turn off their MP3 player and read the same lesson aloud from the text. You could do this in a group with each student reading one at a time. The student would read the sentence — or group of sentences — until his or her pronunciation and reading speed sounded like an American or British speaker.
You can have the students alternate back and forth between listening to the recording without reading from the text, and reading from the text without using the recorder. Remember, however, that all responses are always to be spoken out loud.
However, avoid using your own language for lengthy conversations and explanations in class. The students need to learn to speak English, which they can do best by working with the recorded lessons. They need to be speaking English for as long as possible during each class.
Because this is spoken English instruction — not written English instruction — review is necessary even when the students know all of the vocabulary and grammar from the sentences. They have not really completed a lesson until they can say each sentence from memory with perfect pronunciation. Therefore, reviewing past lessons is always helpful.
After you have finished the second lesson, you can add variety to the class by .
Your class schedule (the number of hours per class and the number of classes per week) will determine when you will start a new lesson. However, reviewing past lessons during each class will not only help the students learn better pronunciation, but will also provide variety in the class.
There is something in this course which will be difficult for teachers who are not native English-speakers. As teachers, we want to show our students that we know much about the subject we are teaching. Yet, if the students want to learn good American or British English pronunciation, they must learn it from a native American or British English speaker.
We need to make a brief comment about English. English is a global language and no one English is better than another. Caribbean English, Indian English, Singapore English, and all other Englishes are each important languages. The real question is what the students need based on what they plan to do with their newly acquired language skill. The only reason properly pronounced American or British English is important is if the students want to get better paying jobs in fields where they must use either American or British English, or if they want to continue their education in the United States or the United Kingdom. It is just as appropriate to teach Indian English as it is to teach American English if that is what the students need. However, if the students want to learn good spoken American or British English, then the Spoken English Learned Quickly lessons will be excellent for them, and they will learn best by using the recorded lessons to learn the English of their choice.
Undoubtedly, the reason that grammar and writing is taught so frequently in foreign language study is because teachers can explain "facts" in their own language even when they have difficulty pronouncing the language they are teaching. But that is even true in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes taught by native Americans in the United States. These teachers want to show their students that they know many "facts" about English.
There is a way in which students would respect a wise teacher as the best English teacher in their city. If students understood that when they took your class, they could learn to speak American or British English better and faster than from any other teacher, you would be recognized as the best English teacher there. When class begins, tell them honestly that you are not a native American or British English speaker, and since you want them to speak perfect American or British English, you are going to let them learn all of their pronunciation from either an American or a Britisher. Then, let the students learn fluent spoken English by using the Spoken English Learned Quickly lessons for all of their English study.
It will also be difficult for the students. We all know that getting good grades on written sentences makes students feel good about their progress. Students often want to avoid the embarrassment of mispronouncing English and so may be hesitant to speak. Yet, if they really want to learn to speak fluently, they must speak in order to learn English. Very quickly, however, they will realize that speaking English is the best and fastest way to learn spoken English. They will then thank you for being the teacher who helped them learn to speak fluent English.
You may also want to read the page How to use SPOKEN ENGLISH LEARNED QUICKLY in a school where religious content would be inadvisable
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