DEVELOPING YOUR OWN TEACHING STYLE: TEACHING ENGLISH TO CZECH L2 LEARNERS

This bachelor's thesis seeks to explain why it is necessary to develop your own style of teaching English instead of following a prescribed methodology. It provides the reader with a presentation of the key factors that affect this development, and discusses the steps a teacher needs to take or issues he/she should think about carefully in order to make the lesson as effective as possible. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part One introduces the topic of the development of an individual language teaching style, based on the reference books. Part Two is represented by a field-study that consists of an analysis of questionnaires completed by three current English language teaching professionals expressing their opinions and personal approaches to teaching in the Czech school environment. The thesis concludes with the summary of the key factors that need to be considered when developing an individual teaching style