CHAPTER FOUR - THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER

THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER 

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The role of the teacher is very important at the moment to teach. It involves more than simply standing in front of a classroom and lecturing. Teachers are the facilitators to teach well to the learners, so they are very essential for the teaching-learning process. In fact, even though a teacher has power to spend the majority of the day in the classroom, the actual teaching component is what really matters. Thus, in order to have a good teaching teacher must play different roles such as planner, assessor, monitor, manager and mentor, for example, as mentor because they have to be in touch with learner’s life. However, these roles are useful they are going to be performed depending on the lesson and learners, because these are designed according learners needs, class size, student’s motivation and ability, and their learning styles. It means that one activity works for some and do not work for others. So, an effective teacher should understand that teaching involves everything in a classroom. Weimer (2013) says that the effort of the teacher of planning allows effective group-learning experiences.

On one hand, there are steps that teachers should follow at teaching. First, to review learned material and connect this prior knowledge with the new one. Then, to show how the student can apply the new material in real situations. It helps teacher to maintain the class more active and controlled. For example, as teacher I will always monitoring and guiding them in order to make them think critically.

On the other hand, there are also some principles to implement the role of the teacher as letting students do more learning tasks, not going over to the syllabus, doing instructional design work, encouraging students to learn from each other, allowing effective group-learning experiences. And finally, allowing students to create climates for learning.

Meaningful context in language learning

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REFERENCES:

• Weimer, M. (2013). Learner-Centered Teaching Five Key Changes to Practice (p.184).  San Francisco: JOSSEY-BASS A wiley Company. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uta-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1119448

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FURTHER INFORMATION

• Lakoff, R. (1972). Language in Context. 1st ed. [ebook] Linguistic Society of America. Available at: https://5361invention.pbworks.com/f/Lakoff_72_fletch.pdf [Accessed 20 Apr. 2019].