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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2006-11-22 12:52
Sky wrote,
>>It is funny you mention language learning in adults. I teach English as a Second Language. All of my students are adults. They don’t have any trouble learning. In my experience, I have found the stereotype that only children can learn to be totally false. Adults can learn just as fast as children, and in some case, even faster.
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I agree that the stereotype is false. I also teach ESL and adult literacy, as a volunteer in programs that are free of charge for the students. The ability to learn a foreign language or to learn to read varies enormously between individuals. Some of that ability to learn seems innate. I'd love to report that I'm the biggest teaching genius in the known universe and that all of my students perform fabulously, but the truth is that I've had plenty of failures, with students of all ages who made little progress. For some students, either I just wasn't the right teacher or I couldn't figure out the right approach. Other students led such hectic lives (two jobs, many kids) that they couldn't concentrate and study effectively. In other cases, I suspected dyslexia. In some cases, illness, brain damage or substance abuse got in the way. Sometimes short-term memory problems interfered with learning, although many healthy people in their 80s and even 90s can and do learn new things. Meanwhile, one of the most important things I've learned is never to assume, from the way a student looks, that I know anything about how well that student will learn.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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