Good Language Teachers

and Learners
BY

I N D A H EF T A N A S T A R I N I
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
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advance
Keeping a simple brief checklist of the
material presented
Writing the homework assignment for
the next lesson
Never giving homework over a holiday
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

2.
3.
4.
5.

language
Practice what they have just acquired
They are willing to try anything in order to
get their message across
They dont give up so easily
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