Teaching English

Estela Lopez | English Teacher | Oxford Institute

Teaching English

Estela Lopez
English Teacher | Oxford Institute

[ 41 years & 3 months Experience ]

What is Teaching English?

Teaching English is a great Career option. Almost everyone seems to be talking about How to start a Career in Teaching English, while one should first develop an understanding of What is a Career in Teaching English. The most authoritative source of information on Teaching English is someone with real experience in it.

With 41 years & 3 months of professional experience, English Teacher Estela Lopez understands Teaching English. Here is how English Teacher Estela Lopez detailed Teaching English:

Teaching English is a great challenge, because teaching, whatever the subject one has to teach students, is a permanent challenge. Even more so, English is doubly a challenge because you have to teach children not only to talk but to think in a different language. To teach English, and the cultures of the countries where it is spoken, is to open the minds of children, who perhaps through the language, realize the possibilities they have to know other ways of thinking, other ways of living. In short is to teach them that communication is not only in Spanish but there are other human groups, other human cultures, that have a different language and is good to learn them. And since English is a universal language, not one, but the universal language, the challenge becomes more exciting.

How English Teacher Estela Lopez got into Teaching English?

I studied English because it seemed to me that it was a career that was going to have a lot of job opportunities, and I was not mistaken, and to take advantage of the year i lived with Americans when i went abroad with a student scholarship, which gave me a good level of English to begin with. I studied in the UNT, in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, and while studying English, that was what would allow me to live, I studied philosophy that was what I was passionate about. I graduated as a teacher in English and i got my degree in philosophy in 1974 and 1977 respectively. By paternal suggestion I decided to set up an English academy with which I was able to build my own company, still running today with branches in the south of my province. In addition to teaching English in my academy, i taught English in a private secondary institution and in the UNSTA. Also, along with English, i taught many other things like anthropology, epistemology, logic and psychology, but in fact most of my working hours were dedicated to English. I made several trips to the United States with students from my academy, seeking to have them inmerge in the language, which is necessary to speak it.

English Teacher Estela Lopez's Talk on Teaching English

Starts with what is:
1)	Teaching English

Next, it covers Education. We all know that only 10% of what is taught in Teaching English is actually used in real life. The Education section of the Talk clearly explained what is the 10% needed in Teaching English. Here is a list of Education items required for Teaching English:
2)	English as a Language
3)	English Culture
4)	Pedagogy of the Language
5)	Teaching Methods
6)	Psychology

Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Teaching English demands specific Skills which only an experienced professional can lay out. Here is a list of Skills required for Teaching English:
7)	Good Ear
8)	Good Phonetics
9)	Communication
10)	Creativity
11)	Patience
12)	Motivation
13)	Immesion in the language

Teaching English has an interesting list of Positives. This Talk explains these Positives of Teaching English:
14)	Opens Your Mind
15)	Job Opportunity
16)	Being Bilingual
17)	Understanding Another Culture

Challenges are the other side of Positives and Teaching English is no exception:
18)	Achieving Orality
19)	Interpretation
20)	Knowing how to Transmit
21)	Generate Interest
22)	Teaching

In the final section of the Talk, Estela Lopez talks about How a day goes in a Career in:
23)	A lot of Work

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(Teaching English, Estela Lopez, Oxford Institute, Teaching English, Teaching, English, Universal Language, Teaching Culture)

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