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Techniques and methods in Language Teaching > Effective Mehtods of Teaching English: Your ideas?
Effective Mehtods of Teaching English: Your ideas?
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Lana.
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Effective Mehtods of Teaching English: Your ideas?
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Dear Teachers,
I would love to find out more about methods that in your experience have probed to be the most effective. Methods that really help people
- remember,
- get to use,
- concentrate during the class,
- switch to the correct pronunciation and structures
instead of habitual erroneous ones,
- etc...
Even be it a crazy idea, would you please share it?
I �m very open-minded and am constantly seeking to experience something new.
In my classes I like to bring in the element of the unexpected, so students are alert and their minds are engaged. Also, I change activities a lot, and believe that quantity will one day turn into quality.
What can you advise me?
Thanks a lot to all in advance!
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22 May 2009
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manonski (f)
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When it comes to writing, I always write one example with my kids first. Then together, we review our text, go back to the expectations, make some changes if necessary.
After doing that, I ask my students to write their own text and I make sure our example and the evaluation criteria are available to them.
When it come to speaking, I find it hard to evaluate because it does not leave traces. What I do is I buy small stickers from the dollar store and when they do a speaking activity, usually they have a sheet with the language to be used and I give them stickers everytime I hear them speak English. Some students get a lot of them and they are really proud to tell their parents the meaning of their meaning. |
22 May 2009
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gloriawpai
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I think role plays and songs/raps are good for remembering and for pronunciation.
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22 May 2009
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Missfrancisca
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I also believe that quantity is very important but my collegues don �t think so. Another subject that surprises me it is that now the new methological trend is to focus on tasks but I can see how we continue setting grammar test for students that I also set. Though recently I am focusing more on reading test. I don �t know what do you think about that? I think your topic is really interesting I would like to know how other teachers get the students attention and encourage them to work. Lots of love Paqui |
22 May 2009
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verybouncyperson
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You need to try and use a range of techniques which will help the different types of learner - songs will be a great way for aural learners to learn and remember topics, whereas visual learners will benefit more from pictures, and so on. It �s just a case of using all the different techniques (probably not in every lesson) to help them.
I also find it helps students to see the similarities and differences between English and L1 and can help them to unerstand a grammar point more easily.
T :)
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23 May 2009
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