Teaching English in the Gulf region is challenging as well as exciting. All institutions pay a lot of attention in improving the knowledge of English. Any ESL teacher faces the tough problem of teaching the language in a creative and innovative method. Though many students are able to understand the language, most of the students face the problem of communicating their ideas effectively. The hitch is the lack of vocabulary. Writing is the biggest challenge for many learners. Hence the responsibility of the English faculty is tremendous.

Traditional methodologies will not help a lot . Unless the teacher is able to create an interest in the minds of the learners , he can’t expect the desired results. A good teacher teaches, a better teacher explains and the best teacher inspires. If a teacher keeps on teaching, the classroom activities become passive and monotonous. So the teacher should try to float above the traditional methods of teaching and break the ice. The students here have the tendency to express their happiness or disappointment openly. Sometimes a teacher might get disappointed over the poor feedback he/ she receives from the learners.

I have seen teachers who feel helpless as they get poor results and responses. The main drawback is the lack of creativity. Creativity is not an object that can be bought. Creativity is the result of an individual’s hard work and enthusiasm to prove oneself. Internet is the unlimited resource for any ESL teacher. Add some of your own creativity in the teaching methodology. Creativity doesn’t any limits. You will find the students responding to your calls positively.

For example, the students should be taught new vocabulary. If you just ask them to read newspapers daily, few will respond to the suggestion. So the teacher must bring newspapers to the classroom and make the students sit in pairs. Each pair should go through any news item, which they find to be interesting. Ask them to go through the news item and discuss with the partner. They can refer the dictionary to find the meaning for new words. After sometime, you can invite them to come forward and present the news item to the class. One can share the news with the class and the other can explain the meaning of new words with the usage. The teacher can help the class understand the usage of words better. This practice helps the students speak and learn new words.

It is the teacher’s responsibility to remind the students of the new words they have learnt everyday. To reinstate the learning , tests are to be conducted as the students will be motivated to learn new words for the sake of marks. It is always not a bad idea to prepare a circular about the toppers of the class and put it up in the notice board.The students do respond to this and start learning English.