TEENAGERS
Teenagers are those people that want to do what their parents or teachers do not want that they do or sometimes, they do not want accept parents’ or teachers’ impositions. But depend of the teenagers because there are those that are polite, friendly and conscious.
According to Brown (1993), there are the “terrible teens” and he says about:
“The ‘terrible teens’ are an age of transition, confusion, self-consciousness, growing, and changing bodies and minds. What a challenge for the teacher!”
I agree with the author because many teens are confusing, they do not know what is right and what is wrong and they behave this way because their brain is changing.
In an article of Galileu (2006), we have an important information about teenagers: “Teenagers have specific characteristics like: stubbornness, boredom, ‘bobeira’…”
Adolescence is a difficult period. Many teens have a strange behavior and they suffer with this: they get sad, angry, …
According to Oss (2006): “In some moments, the adolescent is incoherent, sometimes they are sad and sometimes happy”.
Because of these characteristics, sometimes, teens do not have discipline in the classroom and in my opinion is more difficult to teach to teenagers than kids or adults. I think is more difficult because some of them do not listen what the teacher says, they do not like teacher’s opinions, they complain a lot during the class, so I think that teenagers would like to do only what they think is the best for them.
Sulich (2004) says: “Teachers usually begin to have problems with discipline when they can not motivate students or keep their concentration and attention or when they do not understand students’ reasons for misbehaving.”
I think that is difficult to keep concentration and attention of the students, especially, teenagers because they like to talk to their classmates during the class about “relationships”, other teachers, subjects; they speak, make and laugh loud.
Teach to teenagers is not easy, but not impossible, because we can motivate them with different activities, establishing clear rules that are create by teachers and the school and I think teachers must make students aware of the importance of the second language. Maybe with these positive aspects and others we will conquer our students to participate in our classes, otherwise it will be very complicated to work with them.
Teenagers are those people that want to do what their parents or teachers do not want that they do or sometimes, they do not want accept parents’ or teachers’ impositions. But depend of the teenagers because there are those that are polite, friendly and conscious.
According to Brown (1993), there are the “terrible teens” and he says about:
“The ‘terrible teens’ are an age of transition, confusion, self-consciousness, growing, and changing bodies and minds. What a challenge for the teacher!”
I agree with the author because many teens are confusing, they do not know what is right and what is wrong and they behave this way because their brain is changing.
In an article of Galileu (2006), we have an important information about teenagers: “Teenagers have specific characteristics like: stubbornness, boredom, ‘bobeira’…”
Adolescence is a difficult period. Many teens have a strange behavior and they suffer with this: they get sad, angry, …
According to Oss (2006): “In some moments, the adolescent is incoherent, sometimes they are sad and sometimes happy”.
Because of these characteristics, sometimes, teens do not have discipline in the classroom and in my opinion is more difficult to teach to teenagers than kids or adults. I think is more difficult because some of them do not listen what the teacher says, they do not like teacher’s opinions, they complain a lot during the class, so I think that teenagers would like to do only what they think is the best for them.
Sulich (2004) says: “Teachers usually begin to have problems with discipline when they can not motivate students or keep their concentration and attention or when they do not understand students’ reasons for misbehaving.”
I think that is difficult to keep concentration and attention of the students, especially, teenagers because they like to talk to their classmates during the class about “relationships”, other teachers, subjects; they speak, make and laugh loud.
Teach to teenagers is not easy, but not impossible, because we can motivate them with different activities, establishing clear rules that are create by teachers and the school and I think teachers must make students aware of the importance of the second language. Maybe with these positive aspects and others we will conquer our students to participate in our classes, otherwise it will be very complicated to work with them.
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