Week 2 Learning Circle

Canan, Ellen, Michael, Mustafa, Sumayra, Tomo and Abuljabbar ( Secretary)
1.
1.1. Teachers should be diagnostician for their learners’ needs and wants. In order to that, teachers should observe or ask their students about their wants and needs and try to take it in consideration.
1.2. Teachers should raise the awareness of their learners toward the strategies that learners already knew and used however they are not aware of them.
1.3. Sometimes Learners could have difficulty in using some strategies or they lack some strategic competence features, it is teachers’ duty to simplify the use of strategies or introduce other strategies that learners are not aware of. However it should suit their learners otherwise learners would not use them even if it is easy for them. For some learners certain kind of strategies are simple for them but it takes time therefore, they would avoid them. (Students satisfaction)
1.4. Teachers should give some authority for learners during the process of learning. By putting learners into pairs and asking them to learn and correct each other, is a kind of sharing the authority between teacher and learners.
1.5. Teachers should try to their most to make students aware of the natural process of learning second language and that can be reached by introducing them the way that they go through in their mother tongue. They should know that language learning is a shared process and they should not see themselves as decentred identities.
1.6. Some of the group members find it difficult to ask learners to implement certain strategies because there are other demands such as passing exams for their learners, which is their learners’ priority. (Listening for main idea)
1.7.A group member said, I have forty learners and if they are teacher dependant that means, it is impossible to teach them.
1.8 Teachers should present the idea of learning rather than teaching for their learners. Both teachers and learners are learning together and teacher role is to facilitate the process of learning.
2.
2.1. There are independence but there are other things that you ought to finish them which we could call constrains.
2.2. We could learn through our learning however, that is not enough, because we still need the experience of the facilitator who tell us where to find the information and which information is to be searched for. Some colleagues find it easier to have suggested titles for their assignments, because they might deviate and choose area which is not doable or appropriate.
2.3. It is the same answer for the previous point where learners would learn however, it will not be as much as what the Facilitators would provide us with.