Worst… teacher… ever…
My last post got me thinking about some of my experiences in learning French. Although I have had a lot of good teachers, it seems that when I started learning French I had a lot of really BAD teachers. (Maybe it was because of them that I became a teacher. I knew I could do it better!) In one French class in my university there was a student from Haiti who spoke French as his first language. He just took the course so he could get an easy grade. The rest of the students struggled in that class - we were always confused by how to use French words and grammar, or how to pronounce the words and sentences we were learning. Unfortunately, the teacher would ask questions of our classmate from Haiti who always answered perfectly, so she assumed we all understood. And if one of us could not answer a question, she would then compare us to the native French speaker and say, “You see, this is so easy!”.
Actually, I had even worse teachers when I went to France, but that is another story! I wonder if any of you have had some bad teachers. What problems did you face? How do you think the teacher could have done better? Let us know about your experiences!