• Show overhead, Accelerators and Roadblocks to Language Learning and discuss.
  • Introduce the next section, Factors Affecting the Learner's Experience with the handout provided; have the participants (in pairs) try to figure out what the factors are. Promise to give the winners elaborate and expensive gifts.
  • Discuss the factors briefly and assign homework.

Answers to the handout:

  1. Education
  2. Gender
  3. Family Relationships
  4. Work
  5. Physical Health
  6. Personality
  7. Motivation
  8. Learning Styles
  9. Behaviour
These topics are discussed in the tutor training manual in the same order.
  • Homework: have participants read the section Factors Affecting the Learner's Experience and do the crossword puzzle.
  • Point out that the activities that we did in this session are ways that tutors can teach English.