Problems of teaching foreign languages as non -native

Аннотация

Teaching languages to students, particularly non-native speakers, requires proper strategies and methods. By doing this, each teacher has his/her difficulties. This study intends to reveal the problems faced by teachers from non-native Englishspeaking countries. This study answers the following questions: 1. What are the difficulties of teaching English in non-native English -speaking countries. 2.Is there any effort to overcome the difficulties? How do they overcome it? The result of study indicates some main problems: learning materials which don’t cover students’ need, low motivation and classroom condition is boring. Keywords: challenges, duties, responsibilities, methods All people use language to express their feelings, ideas, opinions and desires. By the language, people can communicate to each other. According to Brown language is a system of arbitrary conventionalized, vocal, written, or gestural symbols that enable members of given community to communicate intelligibly with one another. It means that language is a communication. In other words, language is a kind of communication between people in community. People can develop their knowledge with getting the information. There are many kinds of language that are used to communicate. One of them is English. English as International has to be learned by people in the world. But Teaching English has been an important issue in countries where English is not their first language, so learning second language is difficult for learners because they cannot speak English in real situations, because they should learn sentence in textbooks not in a real environment. Therefore, teachers should always look for useful strategies to reduce the difficulties of teaching English language (1969; Chen, 2007; Nunn, 32 Topical issues of language training in the globalized world 2011),and they have to deal with many challenges and often have question about the best ways to teach. What people or children in the classroom or at home can hardly be qualified as language spoken by natives? This is experience faced by students who learn foreign language, mainly by books and have few or no interactions, when they are thrown into real life situations which they must interact with natives. The difficulties student encounter range from pronunciation differences, vocabulary differences ,through grammar and communication issues to cultural ones. The variation learners experience is a broad as the spread of English and continue to change day by day. Teaching English plays an important role in position and success as foreign language. Students generally find only a small amount of English inside and outside the classroom because English is not used for teaching the language in the classroom, or as a communication tool during social interaction. This absence places great responsibility on English teachers to ensure students learn English in a supportive environment, and bring successful language learning into the classroom. Thus, the language knowledge of teachers and teaching skills, along with a host other complex skills, is important in teaching English as a foreign language (Burn and Richard, 1990).The researcher found some problems and difficulties that often happen especially for the teachers in teaching and learning process in the classroom. The first, the students did not understand what the topic given by the teacher. The second, students lack of interested in learning especially in speaking instruction of conversation and students pronunciation still low, etc. In this case, English teachers in teaching English as a foreign language need a creative way and select some good strategies that can help teachers and students to presents their ideas in teaching learning process in the classroom. Bell (2007) suggested that teachers need to be enlightened with all methods, and they should construct their own principled methods or decide what principles they draw on their teaching. Teachers cannot overlook the created methods and used by the teachers. Teachers need a fundamental method to build their own teaching. According to Wardhaugh (1969), students should be stimulated to use the English language and attempting to use the innate process of language acquisition that they have. 33 Topical issues of language training in the globalized world Duties and Responsibilities of a teacher The teacher with qualities mentioned above has a key role play while at school or at home. The following are : a) To give knowledge and utilize potentials .A teacher has a responsibility to offer knowledge according to the level of the learners. This take us directly to the main responsibility of a teacher who is considered to source of knowledge. In that case, presentation of the material important issues to be considered by all teachers regardless of teaching modality used. b) To facilitate the teaching and learning process. This is the most important step expected to be done by the teacher before enterin