My teaching philosophy begins first and foremost with a concern for the student’s goals and expectations in learning English.
My teaching should be structured to meet those ends. I believe that the ESL teacher’s role is to analyze learners' needs and develop their linguistic and communicative competence, meet both their present and future needs, and equip them to participate fully in a world of changing knowledge.
I like my lessons to be dynamic, appropriately paced, and with a sense of fun. I am a practitioner of the “Communicative Language Teaching” methodology which results in a livelier classroom where learning takes place at a faster pace for most students. This is not to say that I ignore the necessary work of learning grammatical concepts and vocabulary-building. I incorporate these into the lessons in a way that contributes to the interactive tasks which encompass the communicative style.
In the final analysis, when students take charge of their own learning and become, in the technical term “autonomous learners,” we will be on the road towards successful language achievement.