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Chapter 1 
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v irtu a l learning 
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o n e -to -o n e teaching 
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English lessons at secondary school 
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large classes 
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in -co m p an y teaching 
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private language school
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1 Som e o f th e possible advantages an d disadvantages o f the different age groups - from a 
teach er’s p o in t o f view - are:
Advantages
Disadvantages
Children
• Respond well to ind ivid u al 
attention
• Curious about alm ost everything
• Respond well to involving 
activities
• Have an unlim ited acquisition 
potential (depending on age)
• Shortish attention span
• inability to deal with abstract 
thought
• A bility to forget languages as 
quickly as they acquire them 
(depending on age)
Adolescents
• Developing capacity for abstract 
thought
• Understand the need for learning
• Largely untapped creative 
potential
• Passionate commitment
• Search for identity can make them 
awkward
• Need for self-esteem can make 
them awkward
• Peer group is highly influential
Adults
• W ide range of life experiences to 
draw on
• Good at application to learning
• Clear understanding of learning 
purposes
• Disciplined
• Fear of failure
• Previous (negative) learning 
experiences
• (Sometimes) out of the habit of 
classroom learning
• Strong ingrained view s about 
teaching