Chapter 5

What are some barriers to teachers to teach English in a way that's motivating to students now?

There are different barriers that teachers have to face.

• Grammar-Based Approaches is one of these barriers because students need to know haow to use the language in real life, they do not need to some rules firts to ask for something in the street, they want to know how to express their ideas. Definitely, grammar exercises are not meaninful for them because they feel that they are not able to speak in common situations.

• Vocabulary Approaches is another barrier, to learn new vocabulary is important, but sometimes people that prepare those words to be teaching are not the words that the students commonly use. They need to know how to use these vocabulary in authentic situations, the new words that they learn have to be meaningful.

• Another barrier that teachers have to confront is the "Future-Oriented Curriculum", the curriculum is always designed for the needs that the students can have in the future, but this is not designed in order to the students can apply it in the present. New language learners can not wait, they need to know what are the most important things of the language to survive in the new country.

Teachers need to know what things motivate students in order to do classes interesting. Teachers have to prepare classes for the students in order to make the lessons useful for them, the idea is to teach through content, through the things that the students are used to see everyday.
I think that barriers can exist now, but is our responsability to find the best way of teaching our students; we have to be able to take care of the needs that the students have, and to know the most meaningful things for them.