“Humanising Language Teaching”
“Humanising Language Teaching" Summary My name is Paraskevi Andreopoulou and I come from a Mediterranean island of Greece in the Aegean Sea that is called Paros. I have run my own school for 8 years now and I have taught all levels and age groups of English, Italian and Modern Greek as foreign languages. During the first years of operating my school, I aimed at transmitting knowledge - cramming material into their heads, like passive recipients, preparing them for exams by attempting anxiously to “finish” the book with the view to “doing my job right” and awaiting anxiously to triumph over our students’ victory either on Facebook or Twitter ,to celebrate and to rest on our laurels for achieving high success rates in such short time span intercepting the truth from our prospective clients for sticking to the book tradition and implementing nothing more than a typical Grammar Translation Method in our classrooms. An...