3597. Creating an Atmosphere in the Classroom where We Communicate in the Target Language

 We are starting a new school year and we teachers want everything goes okay. And also want our dear students learn a lot and the families as well be happy. 

I teach English. To adults. And last night I heard a friend of mine tell about another common friend, who has achieved to learn English marvelously. He has learned English – well he IS learning that language – and he has done so as a hobby or the like: he worked as a businessman of another issue different from English, and lately he has set up an English academy where he lives, namely in Málaga, in Costa del Sol in southern Spain. 

What I want to emphasize is that he has achieved the goal many learners wish: to learn English. 

Now he states that with his method you can learn English in a reasonably rather short period of time. 

I think one of the ingredients for achieving that goal, according to what I know from him, is that le takes up that learning with a big enthusiasm and as well he creates an environment where English is the vehicle for communication. It is like he made up an atmosphere where English is the spoken vehicle for communication and he gets you immersed in that peculiar atmosphere. 

And remember I said also that he has not taken up an official way of learning English. I don’t know what degree he studied at college but nothing that has to do with English. 

When he sees me, he encourages me to enroll courses abroad to improve my English. 

He carries that language in his veins, so to speak. 

And that is precisely what we teachers have to create in our classrooms: an atmosphere where English is the language to communicate with one another, from the beginning or nearly so of our lessons. It is like a piece of a foreign country which has been set up in Spain. We could follow my friend’s ways of considering English. 

As well our students should connect us their English teachers with that language: it is like a second nature we teachers could have: My English teacher... well, of course he talks to us in English. It's something we expect from him naturally. Have a nice day.