Foreign language education: Principles of teaching English to adults at commercial language schools and centers
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2016
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Cogent Education
Анотація
The ever-increasing spread of English as the language of global communication
leads to ever-increasing demand for learning it among adult populations of nonEnglish-speaking
countries. If such people did not have a chance of acquiring English
during their school or university years but urgently need it for professional or personal
purposes, they have no other choice but to go and learn it at courses offered by numerous
commercial language schools and centers. In post-Communist countries, such as
Ukraine, commercial language schools and centers are responsible for English language
training of the majority of adults learning that language after their secondary or tertiary
school studies. They also serve the needs of many high and higher schools’ students
who, due to various reasons, are not satisfied with learning English at their educational
institutions. However, despite the importance and spread of this specific type of language
education, its pedagogical and methodological foundations have hardly been developed
at all. The present article is an attempt of partly filling this gap in pedagogy and methodology
of English language education in non-English-speaking countries. The paper develops
some theoretical underpinnings of that kind of education in the form of six principles
underlying the organization of commercial English language courses, formulating their
goals, selecting the learning contents, and choosing the methods of teaching and learning.
The practical consequences of adopting the six suggested principles are outlined.
Опис
The ever-increasing spread of English as the language of global communication
leads to ever-increasing demand for learning it among adult populations of nonEnglish-speaking
countries. If such people did not have a chance of acquiring English
during their school or university years but urgently need it for professional or personal
purposes, they have no other choice but to go and learn it at courses offered by numerous
commercial language schools and centers. In post-Communist countries, such as
Ukraine, commercial language schools and centers are responsible for English language
training of the majority of adults learning that language after their secondary or tertiary
school studies. They also serve the needs of many high and higher schools’ students
who, due to various reasons, are not satisfied with learning English at their educational
institutions. However, despite the importance and spread of this specific type of language
education, its pedagogical and methodological foundations have hardly been developed
at all. The present article is an attempt of partly filling this gap in pedagogy and methodology
of English language education in non-English-speaking countries. The paper develops
some theoretical underpinnings of that kind of education in the form of six principles
underlying the organization of commercial English language courses, formulating their
goals, selecting the learning contents, and choosing the methods of teaching and learning.
The practical consequences of adopting the six suggested principles are outlined.
Ключові слова
: learning English as the language of global communication; English language education for adults; commercial English language schools and centers; principles of teaching and learning English at commercial schools and centers