Secondary level students with special needs in learning english as a foreign language.

Abstract

Due to its most economic dependency on tourism, in Quintana Roo it is required to Learn English. Thus, in all secondary schools of Quintana Roo, English is taught. There There are established many reasons to learn English; some of these reasons are to get better job opportunities inside the state or outside it, to be able to study (in this state) a career which requires a high level of English knowledge to begin such a major and to be able to get a degree in most of the careers studied in any of the universities within this state. During the time I was studying my English major at the Universidad de Quintana Roo, I used to admire the English teachers I had, and for this reason, being an-English teacher had always seemed to be interesting to me. I used to ask myself very often what implies teaching English and how to learn English and become a teacher of this language. It never seemed to be easy since it implies speaking a foreign language, but, in In spite of this fact, I was always really interested in knowing how to teach a foreign language. Having taken some English courses and almost finishing my English major, learning the English language, I began to work providing English tutoring to teenagers at Instituto de Asesorías Escolares Partenón (henceforth “IP”). I thought it was an easy task because there were not many students as in a normal class; however, I realized it was not that easy. Honestly, it has been exceptionally complicated since tutoring a teenager has always implied to know their needs and skills. Teenage students’ needs, such as affective ones are crucial to them as well as their skills, which imply knowing how they feel comfortable while learning and how they learn better; all of these factors are chief in their foreign language learning success.