The document discusses strategies for effectively managing a mixed ability classroom in second language acquisition, emphasizing the importance of motivation, positive attitude, and clear communication from teachers. It suggests organizing the classroom to facilitate participation, using praise, and implementing group work to engage all students. The conclusion highlights the rewarding nature of teaching and the transformative impact teachers can have on their students.

1. MIXED ABILITY CLASS IN A
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
By Kelly Fernández

2. Mixed ability class

3. DEFINITION OF MIXED ABILITY CLASS
• When we try to make a definition of mixing ability class all those classroom management
problems come into your mind because having more than ten students with different levels
of abilities to learn is not as easy as say open your book on page…
• Talking about mixed class is to mention students who learn step by step, students who are
able to pick things up quickly, students with negative attitude, students who never have
learned a second language, and students who are positive towards learning, ages, sex,
different levels of maturity, different interests and so on.

4. Why a good attitude is important
When you face a classroom with differences in the level of abilities in the receptive and
productive skills like fluency and accuracy work, grammatical knowledge, size of vocabulary,
command of pronunciation, classes in which there are clear differences in the students
background knowledge and their natural skills and talents in other areas less than in learning a
second language what matters here is the motivation and your positive attitude in front of
them because if you come to them with a no motivate class and with a no positive attitude
they will take you no seriously and your class will be a total disaster.

5. Classroom management in a mixed ability class.
• Before beginning with the class, I suggest to smile and say good morning and begin writing
a motivated phrase in the blackboard like “Stop wishing, start doing” or try to look for
another motivational phrases for every day, let me tell you, it always helps in a mixed ability
class especially with teenagers.
• First we have to organize them to maximize all opportunities possible for students to focus
in the classroom. I suggest to make a semi- circle in which you as a teacher can see their
faces.

6. • Make sure you involve all the students, let the extroverted students dominate by
not leaving a side the quieter students to participate by establishing eye contact
and ask them to answer easy questions, check their work next and try to make pair
work activities.
• Call them by their names that will make them feel recognized by you and make
them feel involved in the class.

7. • Show them good attitude because most of them have the teachers as a patron to follow so
do not be a bad influence for them.
• Praise and encourage all the time if it is possible students need to feel noticed and valued,
recognize the effort, the good work, and their behavior.
• Use a good tone of voice do not yell at them, try to not to talk too much it is mean to talk
them meaningful and comprehensible try to use a simple language for them to understand
and use pause to make them analyze or think what they are going to say.

8. • Be clear giving instructions, because most of the time students make mistake is
because we were no clear by giving instructions and be sure everybody is listening
to you and use gestures to support that’s always work and if it is no easy for them
to understand so write them in to the blackboard and make them time to
understand better.
• Use pair and group work because with this activities most of them will be
motivated to participate, they like to help each other and try to mix them
dominated with shy students.
• Set a time limit before continue with the activity to follow.
• Monitor their work and at the end of the activity try to do a feedback.

9. Strategies for a mixed ability classroom
with Dr. Said El K

10. Manage is always priority in class
• Manage is important when you have a mixed class because you know that request
effort side to side because is not easy for the students also to be in a classroom hours
by hours receiving different teachers with different ways of teach and different
attitudes.
• As teachers we do not have the last word, it is mean that we sometimes believe that
we have to demand and only us have the reason why, without giving the opportunity to
the students to participate and give their own opinions so as a good teacher we have to
prepare students to be critical, to be different, to defend their points of view, we have
to let them to be freedom and show that good ideas can develop and construct a
better world.

11. Suggestions according to a psychologist Miss.
AleksandraWilkin.

12. Conclusion
Classes are not always the best ever so we have to persevere day by day, doing
our work as better as possible because it is more satisfying to arrive at home
with that smile you give to your students everyday than to arrive with a
frustrated face, so do not give up teachers we are transforming, we are
changing the world for good.

13. Resourses
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-mixed-ability-classes-1
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buGyO_Sdxn8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGybpZMKG0M&t=63s
• The mixed ability class, JulieTice. Richmond publishing