Teacher’s teaching style affects students’ experience in school. It can provoke pleasant or unpleasant emotions about learning and schoolwork, thus the appropriate teaching style can serve as prevention for ESL.
Lanthier, R.
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The relationship between the teachers’ teaching styles, students’ engagement in school and ESL
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Professionals’ understanding of own negative/unpleasant emotions in the educational context
The paper presents the theory of the circular emotional reaction (CER) as a model to help teachers understand own unpleasant emotions they experience during teaching. The knowledge helps them regulate their emotional reaction and establish better relationships with students. Student-teacher relationship has a great impact on students and can prevent from ESL.
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Student’s self-concept and its correlation to ESL
There is theoretical and empirical evidence that student’s self-concept/self-image, especially academic self-image correlates with their engagement in school and ESL. Helping students develop a positive self-concept may help them stay more engaged in school and less inclined to leave it.
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Learning difficulties and ESL
Student with learning difficulties are often characterized as a risk group of early school leaving. Several students implied that they do not feel engaged and connected to the school since the traditional programs and teachers fail to meet their needs. Special programmes of teacher professional development and didactic approaches should be therefore developed and employed in order to prevent early school leaving of this group of students.
Mots clés : décrochage scolaire