Language skills: teaching and learning challenges

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Teaching a language, especially as a foreign is a bit challenging for everyone and there are some circumstances and issues that the teachers and educator should take into consideration. Learners are motivated from time to time to learn, but sometimes they lose their motivation. Students only learn when they are willing to learn, and they won’t learn if they don’t have a desire to learn. Teachers should assist learners to be inspired and to have a desire during the learning process. Key words: Learners, language, foreign, motivation, factors, inspiration, teachers, students, learning process, factors, foreign language, encourage. It is widely well-known fact that it is not always an easy path to teach a language. First, students experience an initial burst of energy. The next step is to understand how much they have to learn. Then comes the dreaded learning curve. If by some miracle students make it past this milestone, they will still face ups and downs on their journey to learning language’s proficiency. All of this has direct implications for the language classroom and a number of considerations need to be taken into account. First of all, we should be sure that teachers know how to best use technological resources available in the classroom for the benefit of their students. Keeping students’ attention, interest, and involvement to learn every single day can be a difficult. Particularly in formal education settings (such as primary or secondary school), where students often have no choice about attending classes. All of this requires a personalized lesson plan using a variety of stimuli to work with - so teachers need to be highly organized, detail-oriented, creative and resilient (I could go on!) to be successful. Creating lesson plans, grading papers, writing reports, and doing all the other required student analysis is also very time-consuming. It is important for language teachers to pay attention to language learning outcomes and ensure that this administrative work does not take up too much of their free time. Having overcome the learning plateau, students breathe a sigh of relief. They turn the corner. And suddenly you see another language learning problem in the distance: the uphill battle to reach an advanced level. At level B2, students became more independent. They are able to understand and be understood in most situations. They can convey ideas, present arguments, but their English lacks sophistication. This stage is critical on the path to fluency; it’s all about sounding more natural. Students need to learn phrasal verbs, get rid of ingrained errors and start using idiomatic expressions. The best way to help students meet this language learning challenge is to give them more exposure to real atmosphere of the target language. It’s time for them to leave behind the protective blanket of the textbook and take their language beyond the classroom. Of course, the key challenge for all teachers is to ensure that all students are on task and working in a calm and orderly manner. However, in every language class and in 387 XXI CENTURY RENAISSANCE IN THE PARADIGM OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS every school, there is always someone who seems determined to make life as difficult as possible for teachers. Working with these students may require skill and experience. Instead of being a passive recipient, students now have the opportunity and freedom to shape their classroom rather than simply being told what to learn and when. Teachers may be shocked by the extreme activity and severity of the proposed rules. As rule makers, students are more likely to adhere to those rules and achieve expectations and even help the teacher control the class since they are responsible for the rules. Ultimately, the role of a language teacher is to help students improve their fluency in the target language, so working with the needs of individual students can present a wide range of challenges. Although teaching in higher education or teaching adults can be extremely rewarding as you help them achieve their life goals, the classroom atmosphere can often be serious and overly focused. This puts extra pressure on teachers as they expect quality teaching lesson after lesson to earn them the grades they need. On the other hand, teaching students in elementary school typically means more time spent on managing behavior, more time spent on developing basic language skills, and of course, more time spent developing engaging lesson plans and resources. Many language teachers take advantage of the opportunity to use their skills by traveling and visiting different parts of the world. Depending on where the teacher end up, the school may not have all the educational technology or materials (e.g. apps, broadband, laptops, textbooks, etc.) that teachers are used to. Understandably, this may come as a shock and force teachers to rethink what language teaching techniques they can use and what resources they have ava