Saturday 9:00 - 10:20 AM
Cosmos B, Olympic ParkTel
Why English Education Is Failing in Asia - a Psychological Perspective

David Paul will outline Personal Construct Psychology, and illustrate how this constructivist approach can fundamentally help English teachers in Asia. This approach has led to stimulating debates and insights in many areas of education, but is not discussed at conferences in Asia. 

David will suggest that the teacher's role in dealing with many of the problems Asian students face is crucial. The way we teach and the way we look at students has a profound effect on the way they learn. It is up to us to lead students towards a successful learning strategy, and particularly important to bring an understanding of construct-theory psychology into the classroom. He will suggest that almost all students can succeed if we take a very close look at common assumptions about how students learn and reexamine them from this constructivist perspective.