What would happen if there were no language teachers around ?

This is a tough question whenever you think how necessary all kinds of teachers become in a community. All teachers are important and all of them need to be respected at a very high level. The same level a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer or any other professional activity.

A community with no teachers in not viable. There have to be specialized people teaching other people. Another kind of reality would be out of thequestion.

It is true that we all become teachers while becoming parents. It is also true that nobody can teach you to be the best kind of parent possible. We know that if we happen to be parents and conscious parents as a goal. The teaching experience of becoming a daddy or a mommy has no equal. It is unique. It is wanted and waited or with wit and dreams and anxiety. Nothing compares to that. We have to be teachers and so...we become !

Language teachers, on the other hand...have to be made. They have to be developed by a feeling. On that changes our lives for good. One of the deepest feelings there is. That of teaching for the love of becoming an excellent teacher. A feeling that only a true teacher can experience.

All pupils are waiting for a given teacher to arrive to the classroom. They trust him in a way, unless that given teacher shows otherwise. If the teachers shows no skills for teaching from the very first class...forget it ! He has already lost the attention of all his or her students from that moment on.

So, becoming a good language teacher is not at all a piece of cake. Languages are so vast and complicated if we may say so. Languages are there and it is our will to have a domain towards them...in order for us to DARE and try to teach them. Languages are in the air and only good teachers could "smell" the innest core of them.

The importance of learning a language is given by itself. No discussion about the importance. No doubt about the patience we need to teach one language or, to learn it as far as possible...in a lifetime.

Students, on the other hand, do not have a lifetime to learn only one language and continue learning vocabulary for good. They need teachers to make the path friendly for them. Those students who are really interested in learning a language will realize that they are the luckiest ones whenever they find a Good language teacher on their way.

British council-2009

by George Modilevsky