Counselling as a tool to satisfy the academic needs of diverse learners [Articol]

Abstract

Counselling has impacted unprecedentedly many people. This professional relationship between the counsellor and the clients has entered a great number of domains including education. The article is designed to promote counselling integration in TEFL. In the rationale, the importance of counselling is thrown light on. Being analytical research, it underlines the similarities between counseling and teaching. They both encourage the clients to continue their path and look for opportunities to gain independence. The strategy that can empower Generation Z and Alpha with counselling and language skills and develop dispositions is the Socratic Seminar. The paper describes the adjusted Socratic Seminar implementation at the classes of English. Going through all the stages, the learners are exposed to collaborative work and, consequently, the assigned counsellor facilitates the understanding of the counselee. This strategy helps the teacher to make the class academically homogeneous.