What could help me become a good informal tutor of English to Spaniards?
August 20, 2015 4:09 PM Subscribe
While helping care for a friend I've been at home a lot, and it has been a real lifeline to the outside world buying informal tutoring in Spanish from the web site www.italki.com . When my friend has carers all set up I will be moving and will have more free time. I'd like to improve my communication skills by doing some language exchanges with Spanish people. How can I best do my part so that my intercambio partners actually progress with their English?
After a long period not working I want to learn some Spanish both for pleasure and as a confidence-builder so that I can able to learn other things with more of a vocational element. I will continue buying lessons as my budget permits, but I'd like to have free language exchanges with Spaniards ( I don't want to be practising a mix of Castellano and Latin American Spanish as I would get very confused!). As well as just offering conversation practice I'd like to know a little about teaching English as a second language so that I could offer little tidbits of advice. At the moment as a native British English speaker I could say "That doesn't sound right - we usually say x" but lack the knowledge of grammer concepts to say why that is.
I am on disability so this would not be for pay, if it was I would only earn pocket money anyway which would be more trouble than it's worth for the hassle of declaring it. It would just be a way to add value to the language exchanges for the language partners I got on well with. In the past I seemed to have good luck with people studying to teach children, where they have motivation as they need to reach the B1 level as a condition of being awarded their degree. Is anyone here an informal tutor or "conversation coach" who can share books or web resources to help me help them? Thanks
After a long period not working I want to learn some Spanish both for pleasure and as a confidence-builder so that I can able to learn other things with more of a vocational element. I will continue buying lessons as my budget permits, but I'd like to have free language exchanges with Spaniards ( I don't want to be practising a mix of Castellano and Latin American Spanish as I would get very confused!). As well as just offering conversation practice I'd like to know a little about teaching English as a second language so that I could offer little tidbits of advice. At the moment as a native British English speaker I could say "That doesn't sound right - we usually say x" but lack the knowledge of grammer concepts to say why that is.
I am on disability so this would not be for pay, if it was I would only earn pocket money anyway which would be more trouble than it's worth for the hassle of declaring it. It would just be a way to add value to the language exchanges for the language partners I got on well with. In the past I seemed to have good luck with people studying to teach children, where they have motivation as they need to reach the B1 level as a condition of being awarded their degree. Is anyone here an informal tutor or "conversation coach" who can share books or web resources to help me help them? Thanks
There are a couple of books meant for ESL/EFL/ELL-teachers-in-training that I recommend:
- The ELT Grammar Book
- The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers: A Course Book and Reference Guide
They're both excellent. (Unfortunately, I think the second one might be aimed at American English, which would be less useful--but most of the major ELT publishers are in the UK, so perhaps there's some other alternative there.)
posted by wintersweet at 8:06 PM on August 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
- The ELT Grammar Book
- The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers: A Course Book and Reference Guide
They're both excellent. (Unfortunately, I think the second one might be aimed at American English, which would be less useful--but most of the major ELT publishers are in the UK, so perhaps there's some other alternative there.)
posted by wintersweet at 8:06 PM on August 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
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