My name is Dinara. In this text I try to explain my opinion on statement that anyone who speaks the language can teach the language. I disagree with this statement, because knowing language cannot give you a reason to teach as a professional. I exclude the examples when parents can teach their children, but we cannot call this professional teaching. It is only for gather basic knowledge about world. But if you want to give qualitative education for your students, who are not native speakers, you cannot do it without techniques that we learned from lectures of Module 1: Making Meaning Clear. Dr. Shane Dixon shared the diagram of Technique and Content (Lesson 1, Video 2), which shows that teacher’s aim is to find the happy balance between both content and technique. Let’s consider content as a language that you teach. And if you don’t master some techniques, you cannot provide information to students. You would fall into the high content, low technique area of the spectrum. And, of course, your classes would be boring or very complicated. It will be similar to my lessons at school, when teachers dictated lectures about their subject or spoke in complex and incomprehensible concepts for me. I can safely say that such teachers completely discouraged my desire to learn. Teaching language is not very easy process. You have a lot of obstacles such as student’s misunderstanding, cultural differences, limited time for classes and etc. However you have some tips to solve this problems and this tips called teaching techniques.
