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by nardly smith Lar r y la rr
eee w y individualization is nottnnyw but it is no nnneeW I wh I current 1Ii en 1 say that 1 am reminded of l a quote from the four quarters by TS onqu r eliot and what there is to conquee c has already been disc overed once or ha nl there is ohiy the twice or sev eral times fight to recover what has been lost and hi even found and lost again and again d v du lli at i nn though it is not new indiiviiduaaizzaitoois is a popular word in the vocabul ary of many educators with a high degree of frequency we have found it once again udy he writt t n if we study tthe wrriitee philosophy of ed a
ucation in almost any country we find s words like these education from the earliest school years should be directed to the bi a all round development of the human perso a l lty sonnaailty and to the spiritual moral social n and economic progress of the community as well as to the inculcation of d6ep respect e 6p resp for human rights and fundamental freedom 7 individualization is said to facilitate oma afi i lf this adl round development but what is individualization individualization means many things to act i many people pracki cally any teacher on some grounds can claim to be individualizio be o owere ing instruction if he has lmwere d the class la enrollmien from 60 to 30 he can work trfent al l more indiivvdualla with the students if he ind iiidddus dv iuua y calls his sttudeotn by name instead of by s udn s l numbees no doubt that iis more perrsoalao ltto umb rr ny t s in 0 re pe sonn tai o each individual if he uses programmed ma ternil6 wlhich hll ow s tudents to work s te ia a a ic h aii 6 s

CONTENTS
what Is individualism in TESL rage 1 by larry smith V the ABC principle and the second language learner page 3 by emilio G cortez on the nepessity for speciialilized cla l nec e e

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materials in ESOL page 4 by ted plaister conversations and dialogues page 6 by jjack wigfield a y ack ay U hawaii campus BATESL reB 1 YU quire ments page 8 by jay fox a learning with games Rosl aa h s page 10 by rosiitta Ah ching

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r re e alph as ocia a larny smith is a Ressearrch asssocitte r an t e Wes at the Easttwest center culture learning institute he has travelled extensiye ly in the far east an d presently l ve
heads two programs one for Inservice T a ne s t teacher trraiinerrs and one for pre service teacher trainers

at their own pace he can say that he is individualizing instruction he fje m ay have conferences with individual students or he may instruct small groups in particular skills i he may allow small groups of students who

TESL reporter F page 2 P gUIid em RETIC AL GulD ellines FOR IN e res t s hard some com mon int oreSt to work toe ha ro ge imvduaalizattiion IN ESOL dwiidu lm a on ud i ts dn se ther and individual sttudeam may select their own materials from the available re1 l w nlf there is no one way to learn ianguage fl sources and if so he wiiinn proclaim to the any way a person learns is valid if a stuworld that he has an individualized class dent wants to memorize diiallogi let him a ogs s I ne s does he 1 suppose that depends on one s if he feels that studying grammar rules definition of individualization helps allow that 1 believe that individualization more propco e e 2 there are no coffrrd ct or proper seI f quence for learning the so called cour llan erly called personalized learning is an apfour an proach which offers appropriate not necesguage skills it is not necessary to follow the listening speaking rea ding writing sa rriil y different instruction for each stuit se uenc e order or any ot rseqquence of course dent the key word is appropriate there is a sequence for each person which does not mean thatttthe teacher teaches each ha he i will depend on his goals and objectives student on a one to one ratio it doesnt 3 there is no set of oalnftguage skills neces meah the student always works alone or s nece l f agua ge 1 ou b Iddoubt that most sary for all people i even in small groups there are times when mee orle arn people like to be members of a total compeople need to leaiin english at all those ie l rnurqity there is so mething 1 believe quite I mun l a o wha s k that do can decide f6r themselves what tskiillls i gro they are inrersted in maybe only reading real in ag r aup spirit which is m ore than a n c e te ested p io p& b will be enough or only taxicab spokke d i ab po en T o f the indi i idu l sum 6f 66 divvdual p arts apprropriate l tu ua english instruction wo u1ld also allow the sdudent to hi ii study when he wanttstto as well as how he as 0 wan s o e s ii s 4 languagpskkllls can be learned at any age s e hi e w w wantts tto an d w ith whom oolawthhoutwhhom an ss o if amle in school a student studies only ant om i r d it out w om as e la h readiing b ut discovers latterrhe needs a speakead na b a er r e as the case may bb ing knowledge he can at that time study g p individualization is desirabile becauise stulo irmla b stl Ai to deveA0p that leaarrniing can take place 14 n i dents differ pa throughout life and the sooner we destroy fach ppersoh is unique pnf ers on e a0 i bp n loarning activities S h9 iald be b4 sed on this e mm the idea that one must ae iin school to learn s ou ia a lm an e uniquemess mo fol1owiini list provides the more likely we are to promote gonuine e a l in oll th e 0 U0 w ng some of the ways in which students differ wa education ya y smli e t o whiichaade relevant to tplarnimg wh cch r r hk 5 each learner is unique an d much more le earf n ha thaw a reactor He brings many things with an h hiin to the learning environment m a ar i n for jlernning motivation interesi mit 6 me amount of tumesspenttifor learrnag in i me p en o r ea nw th n onl x attenttiioxi spans background r shouuldnodtb e a very important factor ba sho ld i t b a i im en each student has a ddfferdftt rate of learn0 l i ci enc pe language profjicdettwy pe rception V s am c 4 am v in g and even the sameeestudent will differ or d er en sensitivity int t o imagictiaatiio n u bi differen t days Usually learning is more im es curiosity pr a CS t pootltatinft than theotiim e it takes learning styleiIts het m 6 7 class size ris not 4 orriinciple consideration p a o nc id ze i anxiety rates learning 1 since individualization is notton e to one I a 6 on b h teachingi any regular class can be in1 know o o0 one who ay s I 11knowoffnooheivhossays that all people ii 0 dipi dublized div i a il od are the samo when jtalking about these e w i n td kinj t how 71hiis effects 1he teacher th I things and appropriate instruction Jis m asch r under this apprroahA the teeacher takes on ac a pp oacc h vague enought to please a lmos t anyone as but ough n a hew role he is not the soi e d dsspenser 0 f w l i ipe ns r o long as he carl deciide wh at is meent byl n tl t m ao li af l i li knowledge who knows aee s the s tudent wty then dont we see inhy h en 1 ppropriate a must have many sources of questions and diVAialized instruction everywhere 9 vidu d in answers hidiviiduallizaitoonsh ould niot be m v dua izat i n sh r BSQL class es 1 tnink one of the principle I ah n as s a e4 equa t6d as 1 1 inssrtrwtn the theo0ya9f 1 1 in t uctio i ry o ea qps i 9 i tre4sons 4s ttlhat the theoretical framework iis ak s r f r lyii oK maividualization boedquires the teacher to d r kheii ar i bcc f not cleadly understood or aacc epted contrnued on page 12 i

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