Remedial teaching is for :
2024
Remedial teaching is for :
- A.
learners who need attention on certain aspects of language learning.
- B.
teachers who need to modify their teaching for a certain student to learn the language.
- C.
learners and teachers to understand and modify/improve their teaching/learning strategies.
- D.
learners and teachers to enhance the scores in the examination in language paper.
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Correct answer: C
Remedial teaching is a diagnostic-and-corrective process, not a single repeat lesson: once a learner's specific difficulty is identified, suitable teaching-learning strategies are chosen, tried, and refined until the difficulty is resolved. Because the goal is to close a learning gap rather than simply repeat instruction, remedial teaching is necessarily a JOINT process: the learner must recognise where their own learning strategy needs to change, and the teacher must recognise where their own teaching strategy needs to change.
Applying this to the stem: the options describe remedial teaching by WHO it is for and WHAT they are meant to do. An option limited to only the learner's side (getting attention on a topic) or only the teacher's side (modifying instruction) captures just half of this diagnostic-corrective loop. The option that names BOTH learners and teachers, and frames the goal as understanding and modifying/improving their respective strategies, matches the standard pedagogy framing of remedial teaching as a two-way process.
“Learners who need attention on certain aspects of language learning” names only the learner side of the process.
“Teachers who need to modify their teaching for certain student” names only the teacher side of the process.
“Learners and teachers to understand and modify/improve their teaching/learning strategies” names both sides and frames the goal as strategy revision — the joint diagnostic-corrective definition.
“Learners and teachers to enhance the scores in the examination in language paper” reframes the goal as exam-score improvement, which describes exam coaching rather than the strategy-revision process that defines remedial teaching.
So the option that names both learners and teachers, aimed at understanding and revising their strategies, is the correct description of remedial teaching.