Smile. 😊 Keep safe. 😊

Smile. However difficult it is, you still breathe. You still seethe sun rise and set, hear the voices of people you love, feel the warmth of your company, and taste how sweet life can be.

Keep safe! There’s someone who’s gonna be proud of you for whatever accomplishments you will earn. There’s someone who’s waiting for you to come home

Remember that a better world will see it’s light of day!

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스텝업 잉글리쉬 아카데미's Method in Teaching Learners with Short Attention Span

Training for teachers of Step-UP English Academy has been a part of the academy’s goals to provide quality teaching. This training includes concepts on how to deal with English language learners who have short attention span. 

Although Short attention span is not exactly a language learning problem, it is normal among many very young learners. However, it still presents a challenge to teachers of English, a challenge that proper motivation can curb. Here are some factors that teachers should consider. 

1. Rewards. Rewards are a form of positive reinforcement. They can be used to instill to students that hard work pays off. If they are motivated because of expected rewards, it is likely that their attention lengthens. 

2. Interests. Opportunity for learners to do their interests in class provides motivation. 

3. Balance. The effort to pay more attention in lessons should equate to the rewards and opportunity to do interests in class. To illustrate, a teacher offers more play time to students who show more frequent behavior of focusing on lessons. 

4. Learning. While the first two factors are important when helping students improve their attention span, the target language should not be left out of account. 

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Step-UP Reading ClubHouse (ReaCH) Helps in Achieving Academic Success

Step-UP Reading ClubHouse (ReaCH) encourages comprehension development of English learners, for comprehension is vital in academic success. This skill should be developed at a young age.  Doing so bolsters the confidence of learners when they do comprehension questions, which are a regular part of standardized tests.

Comprehension is also developed through comparison and contrast. These are an indispensable in promoting higher order thinking skills (skills beyond memorizing), which includes making analysis, drawing conclusions and/ or opinions, and so on.

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스텝업 잉글리쉬 아카데미 Reading ClubHouse (ReaCH), an Overview

Step-UP Reading ClubHouse (ReaCH) allows Step-UP students to have access to a wide-range of books that many have used to better their literacy skills. These reading books are provided by an award-winning English language resource.

Aside from their reading books, students also receive a workbook that is used in their online lessons.

Reach follows 29 reading levels. There are at least 10 books in each reading level. When students finish one level, they move on to a higher level where they can learn from more challenging books.

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Class Overview 2, 스텝업 잉글리쉬 아카데미 Group Class

Motivation, enthusiasm, and fun are some of the key factors that make an English class stand out.

Motivation elicits responses from students without giving them too much burden of producing what the teacher wants them to learn. While this is highly effective, coupling it with the teacher’s enthusiasm maintains students’ motivation to keep learning. The last factor but certainly not the least is fun. This, however, has to be defined. “Fun” or more accurately “fun learning” exists when the teacher provides students with venues to enjoy learning English. Learners should not only have fun but also learn.

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A2P Class Overview 1, 스텝업 잉글리쉬 아카데미 Group Class

At Step-Up English Academy, language production through demonstration and practice is an indispensable part of lessons, which opens opportunities for students to have first-hand experience of using the target language.  The more learners are encouraged to engage themselves in producing the language, the more likely it is for them to learn what they are practicing and produce the language that they practiced in real-life situations.

In the first video clip, the first teacher encourages the learners to use an everyday question and its response. She then demonstrates how it is asked and answered before the students produce the question and the response on their own. In the second, the teacher initiates language production by asking questions and promotes the use of a common sentence pattern by asking learners to respond using different words from a vocabulary category.

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Improve from Being an Absolute Beginner

English skills are necessary in today’s life. Some need these skills for work, education, or even socialization. However, the challenge that many people are faced with is they have zero to very little exposure to English, which brings up the question: “How can someone with a low English level learn English?”

In learning any language, an obvious and indispensable aspect that absolute beginners should know is vocabulary. Without it, learners are bound to a level where they merely tread water. To deal with this, learners have to know the basics of learning vocabulary. Here are some of them:

First of all, get to know what sounds make up words and how these words are spelled. Knowing these two improves skills in speaking, reading, and even writing, which are skills that can be learned in a phonics course.

Equally important is reproducing the words they learned in a phonics class by making sentences. Through this, not only will learners have better retention of vocabulary but they will also be able to have higher confidence in expressing their ideas.

Pronunciation, spelling, and making sentences are necessary when learning vocabulary. If you want to know more, contact Step-Up English Academy.

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What is Step-Up's Academy-to-Academy Program?

A2P (Academy-Academy Program) was recently launched by Step-Up  English Academy. It provides English language academies in Korea with access to competent English language teachers.

Through A2P, academies in Korea can communicate their students’ needs and their standards to Step-Up English Academy teachers. Additionally, enhancing learners’ pronunciation and speaking skills can be focused on through monitored group classes and one-on-one classes.

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영어문법공부 at Step-Up English Academy

Grammar has always been one of the aspects of English communication that presents a challenge to learners. A classic example of this is the difficulty of making the subject and the verb of a sentence agree. Grammarians call this subject-verb agreement, commonly abbreviated S-VA.

The basic concept behind S-VA is that if the subject is singular (one), the verb should end with “-s”. The same rule applies when the subject is uncountable. On the other hand, if the subject is plural, the verb is not conjugated with “-s”. Let’s take a look at some examples.

a.      Mary likes cake.

b.      Mary and Jane like cake.

The subject in the first sentence (Mary) is singular, while the subject in the second (Mary and Jane) is plural. Hence, likes was used in the first sentence, and like was used in the second.

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