Page 5 - Describing Learners

 Like to learn from direct experience
 Interested in language use and language as communication rather than

language as a system

 Enjoy games and group work in class
d) Communicative learners

 Language use orientated

 Comfortable out of class and show a degree of confidence
 Willingness to take risks which their colleagues may lack

 Much more interested in social interaction with other speakers of the

language.
 Perfectly happy to operate without the guidance of a teacher.

C. LANGUAGE LEVELS

Students are generally described in three levels: beginner, intermediate and
advanced.

 Students are generally described in three levels: ¨ Beginner ¨ Intermediate ¨ Advanced
 These are further qualified by talking about real and false beginners

 Between beginner and intermediate we class student as elementary

 Intermediate level is subdivided into lower and upper even mid-intermediate

1. Methodology
Some techniques and activities are suitable for some levels, we should take our

student’s level into consideration while choosing techniques and activities •we will give
student’s more support when they are at beginners or intermediate levels, than we need to do

when they are more advanced

2. Language, tasks and topic

Students acquire language partly as a result of the comprehensible input they receive
especially from teachers •teachers should adjust their language according to their student’s

level