Net English information

What is NET-ENGLISH [1]?

NET-ENGLISH is an educational service provided by the International Language School Group Foundation for students of all levels and all ages, as well as for teacher trainees at the International Teacher Training & Development College. If / when you want to enter, please contact the ILS Group Reception.

Here you will have to fill in a Registration Form and this is where you can arrange payment and all administrative matters. Reception will give you a STUDENT CODE and this is what you will have to use in ALL your communications with us.

Understanding Learning and the Learner

What Is The Problem?

I. THE MAJOR OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE LEARNING OF ENGLISH IN HUNGARIAN STATE SCHOOLS

1. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

a. Most EFL teachers believe that their major role in the classroom is the transmission of information. Their "teaching" results in very boring lessons (to pupils and teachers alike).

  • extremely high teacher-talking-time and from very low to none student-talking-time,
  • a defensive attitude to both the target language and the pupils,

Learning Disabled Child

I have attempted a case study of one of my learners (who should naturally remain anonymous) taking account of his / her success profile for other academic subjects, home backgrounds, peer group pressures, motivations, other languages spoken (if any), career aspirations (especially involving  languages), and I have related my findings to this learner's overall performance in the English class.

April, 2000

Leslie Simonfalvi

INTERNATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE
Budapest, Hungary

A TEFL example to the Prisoners Dilemma

Let's see how we might move from a simpler to a more realistic game model in a real-world example of strategic thinking: in a teacher class relationship in shaping the near future of their teaching - learning.
For this example, the players will be a teacher of English considering some changes, i. e. training further training re-training towards a higher efficiency, and a group of students who are also considering some changes, i. e. learning more efficient learning methods.

The two choices are to use