English is a language originally from England. This language is recognized as International language, and it is used in many country as the first language, for example the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, New Zealand and many others. Nowadays, English becomes very important and becomes very popular language especially for countries which of the first language is not English for example in Indonesia. In Indonesia, English is taught to students since elementary schools as foreign language. Not only that, many companies requires English speaking ability as the job requirement. Those are show us how important English is, especially for people that look for jobs. As the reflection of this phenomena, many of adult people take English courses before they are looking for jobs or after they already have jobs. Some tutors said that teaching English for adult learners is easier than teaching English for young learners because adult learners usually want to study English because of their own willing, not like young learners that many of them study English because of their parents willing. In the other hand, many tutors said that teaching English for adult learners is harder than teaching English for young learner because usually adult learners have difficulties in remembering rules of English. It seems that teaching English for adult learners are not as simple as it looks. It must has the advantages and the disadvantages while teaching English for adult learners.
There are two advantages of teaching English for adult learners. The first advantage is that adult learners decide to study English because of their own willing and motivation. They may have different reasons in studying English but they all do it because they want to or need to. For some students, the motivation of studying English might come from their interest of English because English has been announced as the International language they want to master and know about English more, so that they takes English courses. Another reason is from jobs. They take English courses because nowadays many company require English ability as the job requirement or for learners that already have a job, they take english courses because they want to have a better job or position. The second advantage is that adult learners have better knowledge than younger learners especially knowledge of using language. Adult learners must have mastered the first language, that is why they will be easier to learn and understand English because they can make such as summarizing of what they have learned using their own language style, so that they will easily understand.
However, teaching English for adult learners has disadvantages too beside the advantages. The first disadvantage is that many adult learners have difficulties in remembering English rule or grammar. This might happen because the bussiness of adult. If young learners are focused in studying, adult learners cannot only focus in their study, but they also think about their business or another activities, for example their job, their family, and etc. They might easily understand about what they have just learn when they were studying by the guidance of teachers or tutors, but they might also easily forget it after they leave the course and then continue their business or their work. The second disadvantage is that the tendency of stress. Beside having difficulty in remembering the rule or grammar, adult learners also easily got stressed because perhaps while they are studying, they are still think about their jobs and it makes them not focus to their learning. Tiredness and too many tasks from their office and courses are the causes stress to them. If they get disstressed, they will find difficulties in studying, the teachers or the tutors will also find difficulties to teach them because stressed people cannot easily got what the teachers taught to them.
Finally, teaching adult learners sometimes may be beneficial because it easier than teaching young learners. But, there are some negative sides too when we teach adult learners as what I written above. It is your right to decide whether you want to teach adult or young learners, you must consider with what you choose.
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