Wednesday was fun! We learned a lot about how and what English professors teach at HQU and shared our teaching philosophy here at ALC. Seems we all attempt to teach English through the communicative method, using a variety of techniques and activities. What became apparent though is that our colleagues face a number of very different challenges --- huge class sizes and a lack of variety and availability of materials. As to lack of motivation on the students' part, I'm afraid we are also familiar with that challenge, though to a lesser extent.
I particularly enjoyed brainstorming some of the solutions to the challenges and creating a list to which we hope to add continuously as this course progresses.
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