Daily Excerpt: Working with Advanced Foreign Language Students (Shekhtman) - Some Characteristics of Advanced Students (Student-Teacher Relations)
Today's book excerpt comes from Working with Advanced Foreign Language Students by Boris Shekhtman.
Some Characteristics of Advanced Langauge Learners
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ADVANCED STUDENTS
Student-Teacher Relations
Although students may be world-renown politicians, this social function of theirs is muted once they turn to a teacher in order to study a foreign language, for between student and teacher there springs up a special, unique, specific relationship that is characteristic only of the teacher-student relationship. There are several reasons for this.
First, students generally believe in teachers; they trust what teachers will be doing with them. The student, for his or her part, is in the position of a person who is teaching no one, who should himself be taught, who should be listening to someone else.
Second, the student has fallen under the total control of the teacher (whereas only an hour earlier, in some cases, he or she had been giving a dressing down to an employee). In the classroom, the student is required to carry out the teacher’s instructions precisely; as a result, the student, for all intents and purposes, becomes the teacher’s subordinate.
Third, the student begins to be inspired by the teacher (and typically this has not happened in a long time with them) because he or she sees that thanks to the teacher, his or her language proficiency level is sharply improving. In short, the student is no longer an assistant to the president; he or she is simply a student.
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