The document discusses drills, dialogues, and role plays as language teaching materials. It provides definitions and examples of different types of drills, including repetition drills, substitution drills, and transformation drills. It emphasizes the importance of making drills meaningful for students by relating them to students' experiences and allowing some unpredictability in student responses. The document also discusses how to design and present dialogues and role plays for language teaching purposes.
Philip silvester feed bacl meeting testing january 19th 2016Mr Bounab Samir
The document summarizes feedback from Phil Silvester on a presentation and workshop about testing and examinations that was given by the recipient. Phil provides positive feedback on the organization, content, and facilitation of the workshop. He notes several suggestions, including allowing more time for discussion and sharing of experiences between teachers, involving students more in the testing process, and considering students' learning styles when developing exams. Phil commends the clear documentation provided and 100% attendance achieved at the workshop.
Ppg module tsl3105 topic 1 teaching of l&s skillsJojo PaPat
This document discusses principles of teaching listening and speaking skills in a primary ESL classroom. It covers the importance of listening as a skill, defines listening as receiving, attending to, and understanding auditory messages, and describes factors that affect listening like selectivity, strength and sustainment of attention. The listening process is compared to receiving an email, with stages like receiving the message, attending to it, and understanding it.
The document describes several effective multi-level reading and speaking activities that can be used in an ESL classroom. The activities are designed to challenge students at different levels, engage students, provide feedback, create a learner-centered environment, teach any content, be easily adapted, and provide independent work time for students. Some of the activities described include Read, Cover, Re-Tell, Re-Read; Vocabulary Cards; Quick Write; Mingle; Reconstruct the Story; and Find a Sentence. The document emphasizes that these activities require little preparation from teachers and help develop student confidence and independence.
This document provides a template for a final project on supporting phonemic awareness in the classroom. It includes directions to develop assessment procedures, analysis, and activities incorporating technology and other phonemic awareness strengthening activities. The template has sections for general classroom information, reflections on phonemic awareness readings and assessments, analysis of a student assessment recording, and strategies for instruction.
This document discusses strategies for engaging students' brains in the classroom. It recommends allowing students to talk as much or more than the teacher to enhance learning and retention. Talking with partners or in small groups gives students opportunities to discuss and reteach concepts, which strengthens their understanding and memory of the material. Using techniques like turn-taking routines helps focus students' attention when the teacher is speaking and allows for productive student discussion at other times. Overall, the document emphasizes the importance of active participation through talking to fully engage students' brains in the learning process.
This document discusses effective teaching strategies and provides options for classroom activities and situations. It emphasizes maximizing student interaction through open-ended questions, group work, and encouraging cooperation over competition. The document also discusses balancing language skills and systems in classroom activities and using coursebooks as a resource rather than a strict curriculum.
The document discusses drills, dialogues, and role plays as language teaching materials. It provides definitions and examples of different types of drills, including repetition drills, substitution drills, and transformation drills. It emphasizes the importance of making drills meaningful for students by relating them to students' experiences and allowing some unpredictability in student responses. The document also discusses how to design and present dialogues and role plays for language teaching purposes.
Philip silvester feed bacl meeting testing january 19th 2016Mr Bounab Samir
The document summarizes feedback from Phil Silvester on a presentation and workshop about testing and examinations that was given by the recipient. Phil provides positive feedback on the organization, content, and facilitation of the workshop. He notes several suggestions, including allowing more time for discussion and sharing of experiences between teachers, involving students more in the testing process, and considering students' learning styles when developing exams. Phil commends the clear documentation provided and 100% attendance achieved at the workshop.
Ppg module tsl3105 topic 1 teaching of l&s skillsJojo PaPat
This document discusses principles of teaching listening and speaking skills in a primary ESL classroom. It covers the importance of listening as a skill, defines listening as receiving, attending to, and understanding auditory messages, and describes factors that affect listening like selectivity, strength and sustainment of attention. The listening process is compared to receiving an email, with stages like receiving the message, attending to it, and understanding it.
The document describes several effective multi-level reading and speaking activities that can be used in an ESL classroom. The activities are designed to challenge students at different levels, engage students, provide feedback, create a learner-centered environment, teach any content, be easily adapted, and provide independent work time for students. Some of the activities described include Read, Cover, Re-Tell, Re-Read; Vocabulary Cards; Quick Write; Mingle; Reconstruct the Story; and Find a Sentence. The document emphasizes that these activities require little preparation from teachers and help develop student confidence and independence.
This document provides a template for a final project on supporting phonemic awareness in the classroom. It includes directions to develop assessment procedures, analysis, and activities incorporating technology and other phonemic awareness strengthening activities. The template has sections for general classroom information, reflections on phonemic awareness readings and assessments, analysis of a student assessment recording, and strategies for instruction.
This document discusses strategies for engaging students' brains in the classroom. It recommends allowing students to talk as much or more than the teacher to enhance learning and retention. Talking with partners or in small groups gives students opportunities to discuss and reteach concepts, which strengthens their understanding and memory of the material. Using techniques like turn-taking routines helps focus students' attention when the teacher is speaking and allows for productive student discussion at other times. Overall, the document emphasizes the importance of active participation through talking to fully engage students' brains in the learning process.
This document discusses effective teaching strategies and provides options for classroom activities and situations. It emphasizes maximizing student interaction through open-ended questions, group work, and encouraging cooperation over competition. The document also discusses balancing language skills and systems in classroom activities and using coursebooks as a resource rather than a strict curriculum.
This document discusses various approaches to teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). It describes student-centered and teacher-centered approaches, as well as several specific methods including the direct method, grammar translation method, audiolingual method, structural approach, suggestopedia, total physical response, communicative language teaching, the silent way. Each method is summarized with its key principles and typical classroom techniques. The document provides an overview of the philosophy and practices of major TEFL approaches.
This document discusses assessing listening and speaking skills in the primary ESL classroom. It introduces the topic of assessment and outlines the learning outcomes, which include being able to differentiate between teaching and testing, distinguish accuracy and fluency tests, and understand assessment strategies. The document discusses important principles for assessing listening and speaking like validity, reliability, practicality, and washback effect. It also defines what a test is and contrasts teaching versus testing, noting that tests assess previous learning while teaching prepares students for future learning.
Problem solving in teaching english djelfa march 29 meeting 2017Mr Bounab Samir
Salam;
Djelfa Meeting ; ¨PROBLEM SOLVING IN TEACHING ENGLISH
Djelfa meeting tackled the following questions
Questions :
1- What is a problem ?
2- What is problem solving situation?
3- Why problem solving in teaching?
4- Is problem solving new in our teaching system?
5- How to plan problem solving lesson?
6- Barriers to problem solving teaching?
7- What are the classroom problem solving activities ?
NB : Special thank to all the people who welcomed us , for their great hospitality , to Aziz , team of Riassla School , Mr Sadek and my friends Nourddine Yadade, Yacine Gabes, Boualem Ziane for their great contributions
By ; Samir Bounab ( teacher trainer at MONE)
This document provides an overview of developing listening and speaking skills in the primary ESL classroom. It begins by comparing the KBSR and KSSR syllabi in Malaysia and identifying listening and speaking as core skills. Various techniques for teaching listening and speaking are then discussed, including identifying the top-down and bottom-up processes in listening, selecting appropriate activities based on student level, and designing principles for listening techniques. A range of activity types are suggested, from interactive to those focusing more on bottom-up or top-down skills. The document emphasizes the importance of authentic materials, motivating students, and explicitly teaching listening strategies.
This document provides guidance on how to provide meaningful feedback to ESL students. It discusses principles for fair student assessment including ensuring assessments are valid, individualized, and understandable. It also outlines various formative and summative assessment strategies that are effective for ESL students, such as learning journals, concept maps, anecdotal records, conversations, portfolios, and rubrics. Specific guidance is given on assessing the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing in a way that lowers anxiety and communicates high expectations.
Get teachers jazzed about self videotaping and peer observations, handoutLaurel Pollard
This document outlines a workshop designed to get teachers excited about participating in self-videotaping and peer observation pilot programs. The workshop begins by eliciting teachers' concerns and hopes for the programs. It then splits teachers into two pilot teams, one for each program, who will test out and recommend implementation strategies. The document provides sample scripts for introducing each program that address common teacher worries and emphasize potential benefits. It concludes by noting the workshop is meant to spark teacher-led change at the school level.
The document discusses feedback in language learning. It provides examples of formative and summative feedback, as well as feedback on mistakes versus errors. Different strategies for providing feedback are examined, including delayed versus on-the-spot correction. Specific classroom situations are matched with the most appropriate feedback approach. The role of feedback in encouraging learners and helping them improve is also explored.
This document discusses types of errors made by English language learners and strategies for providing feedback on errors in student writing. It divides mistakes into slips, errors, and attempts. Common error types include issues with nouns, verbs, subject-verb agreement, word choice, and sentence structure. The document emphasizes that mistakes are a normal part of language learning and provides tips for deciding which errors to address, such as errors that impede comprehension or common patterns. It also discusses using direct and indirect feedback, and strategies to help students develop vocabulary, grammar, style, independence, and self-editing skills.
This document reports the results of a survey of 40 intermediate to advanced English language students about their views of good and bad language teachers. Students were asked about their favorite and least favorite teachers through interviews and written assignments. According to the students, the good language teachers were friendly, provided clear notes, connected with students, used games, were strict but not overly so, ensured all students understood, told jokes, and were experienced. Bad teachers were described as very strict, rigid, distant, sarcastic, shouted at mistakes, started lessons immediately without warm up, and did not smile. The survey concluded that there is no single formula for good teaching.
The document provides guidance on developing speaking skills in language learners. It discusses using a balanced approach combining language input, structured output, and communicative output. Structured output focuses on correct form, while communicative output emphasizes completing a task. Effective speaking activities incorporate an information gap and allow multiple expressions. Role plays and discussions are recommended to provide authentic practice, while structured activities like information gap and jigsaw exercises transition students to more open communication.
This is a presentation that we had to do in groups of three for Practice II. Each group had to summarize the chapter they were assigned and explain it to the rest of the class. Here is ours! (Ramiro, Florencia and I)
Meeting aeltt teaching grammar algiers may 21st 2016Mr Bounab Samir
Teaching grammar can be done using the PIASP method, which is based on Bloom's Taxonomy of learning objectives. The PIASP method involves presenting grammar structures in context, isolating the structures, analyzing their form and function, stating the governing rules, and providing practice. For each stage of PIASP (presentation, isolation, analysis, stating rules, practice), there is a corresponding category of Bloom's Taxonomy. This allows grammar to be taught gradually and contextualized within communicative exercises, building students' knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of grammatical structures.
This action research project aimed to improve teacher-student interaction in an EFL classroom. The researcher observed a class and found that students were unresponsive, avoiding interaction with the teacher by not answering questions. The researcher hypothesized that this was because Japanese students are taught not to question teachers. The intervention involved explaining to students that interaction is acceptable and beneficial in English classrooms. After reminding students of this, some progress was seen, as students began nodding, answering questions, and occasionally asking their own. However, further prompting was still needed to encourage responses.
The document outlines strategies and expectations for teaching and learning at Oxford School. Section A discusses the school's "Great Expectations" framework, which includes establishing clear routines and high expectations to engage students. It provides examples of starters, interactive activities, and ways to check for understanding and ensure student progress. Section B covers the school's approach to student management, focusing on positive reinforcement and de-escalation techniques.
Currently most reading is either of the printed word from ink or toner on paper, such as in a book, magazine, newspaper, leaflet, or notebook, or of electronic displays, such as computer displays, television, mobile phones or e-readers. Handwritten text may also be produced using a graphite pencil or a pen. Short texts may be written or painted on an object.Often the text relates to the object, such as an address on an envelope, product info on packaging, or text on a traffic or street sign. A slogan may be painted on a wall. A text may also be produced by arranging stones of a different color in a wall or road. Short texts like these are sometimes referred to as environmental print.Sometimes text or images are in relief, with or without using a color contrast. Words or images can be carved in stone, wood, or metal; instructions can be printed in relief on the plastic housing of a home appliance, or myriad other examples
Microteaching introduction with example of lesson planGladys Rivera
Microteaching is a teaching simulation exercise that originated at Stanford University in the 1960s. It provides immediate feedback to help teachers practice and improve their skills. During microteaching, teachers prepare and deliver a short lesson on a topic relevant to undergraduate students. Lessons should be narrowly focused and last 8-10 minutes. The process allows teachers to develop their skills in a supportive environment and learn from observing other teachers.
The document discusses the stages of presentation, practice, and production in teaching a topic. The presentation stage introduces the topic to build students' understanding. It is easier to present to ESL than EFL students. Presentations should be meaningful, memorable, and realistic. The practice stage, also called "over-done," focuses on developing concepts through activities like chain pair-work, closed pair-work, and open pair-work. The production stage is most important, as it determines students' comprehension level and ability to produce personalized language through activities such as role-plays, debates, discussions, and problem-solving.
Students make various types of mistakes in their language learning including slips, errors, and attempts. When assessing student performance, teachers provide both explicit and implicit feedback through praise, comments, grades, and reports. During oral work, it is best to correct mistakes as late as possible and feedback should be personalized. When providing written feedback, teachers should ensure it is legible, focuses on important aspects, uses a positive tone, and gives a manageable amount of constructive criticism and praise. Feedback should also be timely, use helpful styles and correction symbols, and consider the student perspective.
Here are some suggestions for activation techniques that would be appropriate for the given teacher objectives:
For objectives a) comprehension check, d) grammar check, and g) new vocabulary, teacher-led questioning techniques like IRF would be suitable to assess understanding.
For objectives b) familiarization with text and e) writing, individual or pair work giving students time to read/write independently with teacher monitoring would allow practice and reduce mistakes.
For objectives c) oral fluency and f) grammar practice, group or pair work with communication tasks that require using the target language skill would promote active use and reinforcement of those skills.
This document discusses facilitation in language teaching and classroom organization. It describes how a facilitator recognizes that students are their own best teachers and aims to make learning easy. An effective classroom is organized with a student-centered approach, using pair and group work to maximize student talking time, interaction, and language production. The document also covers types of teacher questions, wait time after questions, and different methods of providing feedback and correction to students, including self-correction and recasts.
This document discusses various approaches to teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). It describes student-centered and teacher-centered approaches, as well as several specific methods including the direct method, grammar translation method, audiolingual method, structural approach, suggestopedia, total physical response, communicative language teaching, the silent way. Each method is summarized with its key principles and typical classroom techniques. The document provides an overview of the philosophy and practices of major TEFL approaches.
This document discusses assessing listening and speaking skills in the primary ESL classroom. It introduces the topic of assessment and outlines the learning outcomes, which include being able to differentiate between teaching and testing, distinguish accuracy and fluency tests, and understand assessment strategies. The document discusses important principles for assessing listening and speaking like validity, reliability, practicality, and washback effect. It also defines what a test is and contrasts teaching versus testing, noting that tests assess previous learning while teaching prepares students for future learning.
Problem solving in teaching english djelfa march 29 meeting 2017Mr Bounab Samir
Salam;
Djelfa Meeting ; ¨PROBLEM SOLVING IN TEACHING ENGLISH
Djelfa meeting tackled the following questions
Questions :
1- What is a problem ?
2- What is problem solving situation?
3- Why problem solving in teaching?
4- Is problem solving new in our teaching system?
5- How to plan problem solving lesson?
6- Barriers to problem solving teaching?
7- What are the classroom problem solving activities ?
NB : Special thank to all the people who welcomed us , for their great hospitality , to Aziz , team of Riassla School , Mr Sadek and my friends Nourddine Yadade, Yacine Gabes, Boualem Ziane for their great contributions
By ; Samir Bounab ( teacher trainer at MONE)
This document provides an overview of developing listening and speaking skills in the primary ESL classroom. It begins by comparing the KBSR and KSSR syllabi in Malaysia and identifying listening and speaking as core skills. Various techniques for teaching listening and speaking are then discussed, including identifying the top-down and bottom-up processes in listening, selecting appropriate activities based on student level, and designing principles for listening techniques. A range of activity types are suggested, from interactive to those focusing more on bottom-up or top-down skills. The document emphasizes the importance of authentic materials, motivating students, and explicitly teaching listening strategies.
This document provides guidance on how to provide meaningful feedback to ESL students. It discusses principles for fair student assessment including ensuring assessments are valid, individualized, and understandable. It also outlines various formative and summative assessment strategies that are effective for ESL students, such as learning journals, concept maps, anecdotal records, conversations, portfolios, and rubrics. Specific guidance is given on assessing the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing in a way that lowers anxiety and communicates high expectations.
Get teachers jazzed about self videotaping and peer observations, handoutLaurel Pollard
This document outlines a workshop designed to get teachers excited about participating in self-videotaping and peer observation pilot programs. The workshop begins by eliciting teachers' concerns and hopes for the programs. It then splits teachers into two pilot teams, one for each program, who will test out and recommend implementation strategies. The document provides sample scripts for introducing each program that address common teacher worries and emphasize potential benefits. It concludes by noting the workshop is meant to spark teacher-led change at the school level.
The document discusses feedback in language learning. It provides examples of formative and summative feedback, as well as feedback on mistakes versus errors. Different strategies for providing feedback are examined, including delayed versus on-the-spot correction. Specific classroom situations are matched with the most appropriate feedback approach. The role of feedback in encouraging learners and helping them improve is also explored.
This document discusses types of errors made by English language learners and strategies for providing feedback on errors in student writing. It divides mistakes into slips, errors, and attempts. Common error types include issues with nouns, verbs, subject-verb agreement, word choice, and sentence structure. The document emphasizes that mistakes are a normal part of language learning and provides tips for deciding which errors to address, such as errors that impede comprehension or common patterns. It also discusses using direct and indirect feedback, and strategies to help students develop vocabulary, grammar, style, independence, and self-editing skills.
This document reports the results of a survey of 40 intermediate to advanced English language students about their views of good and bad language teachers. Students were asked about their favorite and least favorite teachers through interviews and written assignments. According to the students, the good language teachers were friendly, provided clear notes, connected with students, used games, were strict but not overly so, ensured all students understood, told jokes, and were experienced. Bad teachers were described as very strict, rigid, distant, sarcastic, shouted at mistakes, started lessons immediately without warm up, and did not smile. The survey concluded that there is no single formula for good teaching.
The document provides guidance on developing speaking skills in language learners. It discusses using a balanced approach combining language input, structured output, and communicative output. Structured output focuses on correct form, while communicative output emphasizes completing a task. Effective speaking activities incorporate an information gap and allow multiple expressions. Role plays and discussions are recommended to provide authentic practice, while structured activities like information gap and jigsaw exercises transition students to more open communication.
This is a presentation that we had to do in groups of three for Practice II. Each group had to summarize the chapter they were assigned and explain it to the rest of the class. Here is ours! (Ramiro, Florencia and I)
Meeting aeltt teaching grammar algiers may 21st 2016Mr Bounab Samir
Teaching grammar can be done using the PIASP method, which is based on Bloom's Taxonomy of learning objectives. The PIASP method involves presenting grammar structures in context, isolating the structures, analyzing their form and function, stating the governing rules, and providing practice. For each stage of PIASP (presentation, isolation, analysis, stating rules, practice), there is a corresponding category of Bloom's Taxonomy. This allows grammar to be taught gradually and contextualized within communicative exercises, building students' knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of grammatical structures.
This action research project aimed to improve teacher-student interaction in an EFL classroom. The researcher observed a class and found that students were unresponsive, avoiding interaction with the teacher by not answering questions. The researcher hypothesized that this was because Japanese students are taught not to question teachers. The intervention involved explaining to students that interaction is acceptable and beneficial in English classrooms. After reminding students of this, some progress was seen, as students began nodding, answering questions, and occasionally asking their own. However, further prompting was still needed to encourage responses.
The document outlines strategies and expectations for teaching and learning at Oxford School. Section A discusses the school's "Great Expectations" framework, which includes establishing clear routines and high expectations to engage students. It provides examples of starters, interactive activities, and ways to check for understanding and ensure student progress. Section B covers the school's approach to student management, focusing on positive reinforcement and de-escalation techniques.
Currently most reading is either of the printed word from ink or toner on paper, such as in a book, magazine, newspaper, leaflet, or notebook, or of electronic displays, such as computer displays, television, mobile phones or e-readers. Handwritten text may also be produced using a graphite pencil or a pen. Short texts may be written or painted on an object.Often the text relates to the object, such as an address on an envelope, product info on packaging, or text on a traffic or street sign. A slogan may be painted on a wall. A text may also be produced by arranging stones of a different color in a wall or road. Short texts like these are sometimes referred to as environmental print.Sometimes text or images are in relief, with or without using a color contrast. Words or images can be carved in stone, wood, or metal; instructions can be printed in relief on the plastic housing of a home appliance, or myriad other examples
Microteaching introduction with example of lesson planGladys Rivera
Microteaching is a teaching simulation exercise that originated at Stanford University in the 1960s. It provides immediate feedback to help teachers practice and improve their skills. During microteaching, teachers prepare and deliver a short lesson on a topic relevant to undergraduate students. Lessons should be narrowly focused and last 8-10 minutes. The process allows teachers to develop their skills in a supportive environment and learn from observing other teachers.
The document discusses the stages of presentation, practice, and production in teaching a topic. The presentation stage introduces the topic to build students' understanding. It is easier to present to ESL than EFL students. Presentations should be meaningful, memorable, and realistic. The practice stage, also called "over-done," focuses on developing concepts through activities like chain pair-work, closed pair-work, and open pair-work. The production stage is most important, as it determines students' comprehension level and ability to produce personalized language through activities such as role-plays, debates, discussions, and problem-solving.
Students make various types of mistakes in their language learning including slips, errors, and attempts. When assessing student performance, teachers provide both explicit and implicit feedback through praise, comments, grades, and reports. During oral work, it is best to correct mistakes as late as possible and feedback should be personalized. When providing written feedback, teachers should ensure it is legible, focuses on important aspects, uses a positive tone, and gives a manageable amount of constructive criticism and praise. Feedback should also be timely, use helpful styles and correction symbols, and consider the student perspective.
Here are some suggestions for activation techniques that would be appropriate for the given teacher objectives:
For objectives a) comprehension check, d) grammar check, and g) new vocabulary, teacher-led questioning techniques like IRF would be suitable to assess understanding.
For objectives b) familiarization with text and e) writing, individual or pair work giving students time to read/write independently with teacher monitoring would allow practice and reduce mistakes.
For objectives c) oral fluency and f) grammar practice, group or pair work with communication tasks that require using the target language skill would promote active use and reinforcement of those skills.
This document discusses facilitation in language teaching and classroom organization. It describes how a facilitator recognizes that students are their own best teachers and aims to make learning easy. An effective classroom is organized with a student-centered approach, using pair and group work to maximize student talking time, interaction, and language production. The document also covers types of teacher questions, wait time after questions, and different methods of providing feedback and correction to students, including self-correction and recasts.
This document discusses different approaches to teaching grammar, including deductive and inductive approaches. It emphasizes that the primary learning experience comes from students practicing language themselves, rather than just listening to explanations. Effective grammar teaching balances presentation with practice activities like drills, exercises, elicited dialogues, and games to allow restricted and authentic output. Clarification can involve short teacher explanations, guided discovery through questioning, or self-directed discovery.
Task-based learning is a language teaching method where students complete communicative tasks using the target language. It focuses on meaningful language use rather than rote learning of grammar rules. A task has three stages: pre-task introduction, task completion in groups or pairs, and post-task reporting. This allows students to experiment, focus on communication over accuracy, and then improve their language for reporting. The method is effective at intermediate levels as it motivates students and provides opportunities for negotiated interaction, language recycling, and a focus on form.
Task-based learning involves completing meaningful tasks using various language skills. It has three main stages: 1) a pre-task introduction and preparation, 2) a task cycle of completing the task, planning a report, and reporting back, and 3) post-task language analysis and practice. This approach aims to make language learning more authentic, reflective, and motivating compared to traditional Presentation-Practice-Production lessons by basing it around real-world tasks rather than predetermined language points.
The document discusses feedback in language teaching. It provides definitions of feedback and describes its two main components: corrections and assessment. Corrections provide explanations or alternatives to improve performance, while assessment simply informs learners of their performance level. The document also examines different approaches to the nature and function of feedback, including how to provide oral and written feedback and correct mistakes. It offers practical hints for teachers to maintain discipline in the classroom, such as being well prepared, moving around, and treating students with respect.
This document provides guidance on teaching productive language skills like speaking and writing. It discusses how teachers can focus on all four language systems (vocabulary, grammar, functions, phonology) to help students develop fluency. Speaking is prioritized as it is the skill students most want to develop to communicate when traveling or working. The document outlines the Presentation-Practice-Production (PPP) approach for teaching language skills, with examples for introducing vocabulary, drilling practice, and student production exercises. It also discusses sub-skills like pronunciation, vocabulary, fluency and grammar that teachers can help students improve to develop oral communication abilities. Preparation and choosing engaging topics at the appropriate level are emphasized for effective conversation class planning.
The document discusses 12 different approaches to teaching English: grammar-translation, direct method, reading approach, audiolingual approach, communicative approach, silent way, community language learning, structural approach, natural approach, total physical response, task-based language learning, and suggestopedia. Each approach is described along with an example classroom activity. The document also contrasts teacher-centered learning with student-centered learning.
This document discusses planning remedial and enrichment activities for teaching listening and speaking skills in primary ESL classrooms. It defines remedial activities as extra guidance for students struggling to keep up, and enrichment activities as challenging optional activities to keep higher-performing students occupied. Examples are given of both types of activities, like phonics exercises for remedial work and storytelling for enrichment. Guidelines are provided for identifying students in need of remedial versus enrichment work, and for determining what type of additional activities would be suitable based on factors like time available and skills being taught.
The document discusses classroom observation tasks for language teachers. It provides procedures for observing different aspects of teaching, including presenting, eliciting, giving instructions, managing errors, classroom management, teaching roles, timing, use of materials and resources, and task design. The purpose is to help teachers reflect on and improve their instructional practices. Key areas covered include teacher-student interactions, use of the board, incorporating learners as resources, and designing meaningful learning tasks.
This document discusses planning lessons over a week to keep students engaged. It recommends varying activities daily and incorporating different skills. Lessons should have introduction, practice, production, and review stages. A variety of activities should target reading, writing, speaking and listening at each stage. Proper planning is needed to choose effective techniques for different activities that will develop language skills rather than just memorizing answers. Student interaction, like pair work, is also important.
This document discusses several key issues for effective classroom teaching:
- Classroom dynamics, learning styles, motivation, and learner autonomy affect student learning and should be considered when planning lessons.
- Teachers must facilitate student-centered interaction and evaluate students' progress, while maintaining an appropriate pace in lessons.
- Microskills like questioning, instructions, feedback and correcting errors impact learning when used strategically during lessons. Considering these skills can help maximize students' language development.
Here are some key points about investigations task cards in a post-CLT classroom:
- Investigations task cards provide students with choice and autonomy in their learning. They allow students to follow their own interests and pursue topics that engage them.
- The tasks are open-ended and allow for multiple solutions or outcomes. They encourage creative and critical thinking rather than a single right answer approach.
- Students can work collaboratively or independently on the tasks. This supports differentiated instruction and accommodates different learning styles.
- The tasks integrate language learning with real-world topics and problems. They make the learning relevant and authentic by connecting to students' lives outside the classroom.
- Inquiry and research are at the core of
Building and enhancing new literacy across curriculum 1.pdfAnjelaMayHintoloro
1. The document discusses the differences between acquiring a first language and learning a second language. Acquiring a first language is a subconscious process that happens through exposure to the language from a young age, while learning a second language requires more conscious effort.
2. There are different theories on the best way to teach a second language. Some argue the best approach mirrors how children acquire their first language through comprehensible input. Others believe learning requires conscious attention to the language as well.
3. Good language learners and teachers have certain key characteristics. Good learners try new things, aren't afraid of mistakes, and practice whenever possible. Good teachers consider cultural backgrounds, potential language barriers, and provide scaffolding to support
Task-based language learning is a student-centered approach where students complete meaningful tasks using the target language. It focuses on task outcome over language accuracy. Tasks are done in groups and include pre-task planning, task performance, report, analysis, practice. It engages students but may neglect discussion forms. Cooperative learning involves students working together towards a common goal, developing social skills. Benefits include higher achievement and interpersonal skills. Examples include think-pair-share, jigsaws, problem-solving. Factors like learning styles and brain processing should be considered.
The document discusses various methods for teaching grammar, including the deductive and inductive approaches. It also discusses the importance of balancing accuracy and fluency when practicing grammar through controlled, semi-controlled, and freer exercises. Finally, it explains the common PPP framework for presenting new grammar, which includes the stages of presentation, practice, and production.
The document discusses effective teaching strategies and characteristics. It provides tips for maximizing student interaction, such as asking open-ended questions, allowing thinking time, and encouraging cooperation over competition. The document also addresses correcting student errors, the role of vocabulary and listening activities in the classroom, and balancing accuracy and fluency.
The document discusses two main issues in teaching grammar: teaching large multi-level classes and catering to different learning styles. Teaching large classes has benefits like ensuring interaction and exposure to diverse perspectives, but also challenges such as maintaining control and providing individualized instruction. There are also four different learning styles - concrete, analytical, communicative, and authority-oriented - and teachers should design lessons to accommodate different preferences for learning grammar inductively or deductively.
This document provides guidance on using effective questioning techniques in the classroom. It discusses using questioning to engage students in higher-level thinking, ensuring participation from all students, and allowing sufficient wait time. Effective questioning asks students to explain their reasoning, is designed to support learning objectives, focuses on big ideas, and uses feedback loops. It also scaffolds questions for English language learners. The document encourages reading about stretching questions, not letting students opt out, and using wait time after posing questions. It provides examples of effective student behaviors like demonstrating critical thinking and initiating their own questions.
This document discusses the differences between learner independence and learner autonomy and provides suggestions for how teachers can promote learner autonomy in the classroom. It explains that learner autonomy means that students take responsibility for their own learning by deciding what they need to do and how they learn best, whereas independence is just being able to work alone. Some strategies suggested are setting S.M.A.R.T. goals, giving students choices in tasks, demonstrating learning activities that can be done at home, and encouraging students to set their own tasks and rewards.
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
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WHATISCLASSROOMINTERACTION?
Interaction in the classroominvolves the process of communication. This can take place
between teacher and student (s), between individual or groups of students, or even
between student (s) and textbook or cassette. Classroom interaction may take several
forms, and it is not necessarily always teacher directed. Penny Ur (1996:228) gives a
useful summary of the most typical interactions which occur in a language classroom:
Group work
Students work in small groups on tasks that entail interaction: conveying
information, for example, or group decision-making. The teacher walks around
listening, intervenes little, if at all.
Closed-ended teacher questioning
Only one ´right´ response gets approved. Sometimes cynically called the ´Guess
what the teacher wants you to say´ game.
Individual work
The teacher gives a task or set of tasks, and students work on them independently;
the teacher walks around monitoring and assisting where necessary.
Choral responses
The teacher gives a model which is repeated by all the class in the chorus; or gives
a cue which is responded to in chorus.
Collaboration
Students do the samesort of tasks as in´Individual work´, but work together, usually
in pairs, to try to achieve the best results they can. The teacher may or may not
intervene.
Student initiates, teacher answers
For example, in a guessing game: the students think of questions and the teacher
responds; but the teacher decides who asks.
Full-class interaction
The students debate a topic or do a language task as a class; the teacher may
intervene occasionally, to stimulate participation or to monitor.
Teacher talk
This may involve some kind of silent student response, such as writing from
dictation, but there is no initiative on the part of the student.
Self-access
Students choose their own learning tasks, and work autonomously.
Open-ended teacher questioning
Module N°2:Classroom Management
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There are anumber of possible´right´answers, sothat more students answer each
cue.
1. TEACHERTALK
1.1. WhyisTeacherTalkImportant?
Nunan (1995:189) identifies two main reasons for the importance of
focusing on teacher talk:
Teacher talk is of crucial importance, not only for the organization of the
classroom but also for the processes of acquisition. It is important for the
organization and management of the classroom because it is through
language that teachers either succeed or fail to implement their teaching
plans. In terms of acquisition, teacher talk is important because it is probably
the major source of comprehensible target language input the learner is
likely to receive.
The features of teacher talk which we will focus on are: the quantities of
teacher talk which learners are exposed to; the modifications which teachers
make to their speech in the classroom; and the types of questions which
teachers put to learners.
1.2. Quantity
L2 research has generally reflected these findings, putting the percentage of
teacher talkeven higher in most cases –around 70% to 80% (Legaretta 1977;
Enright 1984; Ramirez et al.1986).
Obviously when considering the quantity of teacher talk in a language class
it is important to keep in mind the condition that there will be considerable
variation depending on the type of class, the size of the class, the teacher,
and so on.
TASK
Done
• Look at Ur´s list of patterns of interaction above. Put them in order
from the most student-centred (the interaction in which the students
are most actively participating) to the most teacher-centred (the
interaction in which the teacher is most actively participating).
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If a teacher believes that learners have to use the target language best
through practice – then that teacher will probably try to keep his/her talk to
a minimum and try to include many activities in which learners practice in
pairs or groups. If, on the other hand, a teacher believes that his/her talk is
a valuable source of comprehensible input, then the dominance of teacher
talk in the classroomwill be perceived as a positive contribution to learners´
target language acquisition.
Whatkindofteachertalkis´good´ andwhatkindis´bad´?
There are a number of factors which we need to take into account when
deciding how appropriate (or not) teacher talk is.
Nunan (1995:190) identifies three factors:
1. The point in the lesson in which the talking occurs.
2. What prompts the teacher talk: whether it is planned or spontaneous,
and, if spontaneous, whether the resulting digression is helpful or not.
3. The value of the talk as potentially useful for acquisition.
1.3. TeacherToClassQuestions
Why do teachers use questions in the language classroom – why are they
such a fundamental part of pedagogy? Probably because, as Long (1981)
points out, they make interaction in the classroom easier by clearly
establishing the topic, by forcing students to speak (and therefore their L2
knowledge can be assessed by the teacher), and by clearly showing who is
expected to speak next.
Some main types of questions found in the L2 classroom and the effects
which seem to have on learners are:
IRF:According To Sinclair And Coulthard, It Is:
Initiation –Response–Feedback'
In ´IRF´ the teacher initiates an exchange, which is usually in the form of a
question (=Initiation). A learner then answers the question (=Response).
Then the teacher gives feedback, for example in the form of assessment,
correction or comment (=Feedback).
Example
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Teacher: “What did you do this weekend?” = Initiation
Student: “I went to the cinema” = Response
Teacher: “Good” = Feedback (comment)
Or
Teacher: “What did you do this weekend?” = Initiation
Student: “I goed cinema” = Response
Teacher: “Not ´goed´ - went” = Feedback (correction)
DisplayVersusReferentialQuestions
A display question occurs when a teacher asks a student a question for
which he/she (the teacher) already knows the answer. The question is thus
merely for the purpose of ´displaying´ language. A referential question, on
the other hand, is one to which the teacher does not know the answer. It
appears that display questions occur far more in language classrooms than
referential questions, because the language classroom is often more
concerned with linguistic content.
Example:
“What's the past tense of ´go´?” than with real communication.
The implication is that it is somehow ´better´ for teachers to use referential
questions rather than display questions in the language classroom. Why is
this so? Because the more English students are encouraged to produce, the
more English they will be likely to learn.
OpenVersusClosedQuestions
Some referential questions tend to be ´closed´ questions (i.e. questions
which require no more than one word or a yes/no answer) as opposed to
´open´ questions (i.e. questions which require learners to elaborate in a
response).
Examples:
Hello, Eva, how are you?
Last Sunday you went to the cinema, didn't you?
Was it a good film?
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Hans, did you go to the beach?
Did you enjoy it?
More ComplexQuestionTypes
Here, we can find: Comprehension checks, confirmation checks and
clarification requests.
Comprehension checks involve the teacher checking that the student has
understood the message by eliciting a short response (e.g. “How many
sentences do you have to write?” etc.).
Confirmation checks directly ask the learner for confirmation that the
message has been understood (e.g. “Do you understand?” “Is that clear?”
and clarificationrequest aremuch more open-ended, and askthe learner to
elaborate or clarify an answer (“Why do you think we use the present
here?”).
1.4. WaitTime
Studies have shown that after asking a question, teachers tend to wait less
than a second before nominating a student to respond, and then only one
second more for the response before either giving the answer themselves,
or rephrasing the question, or calling on another student to answer the
question.
By comparing classes where wait times was increased from one second to
three to five seconds after asking a question, the following effects were
observed:
An increase in the average length of student responses;
Unsolicited (but appropriate) student responses increased;
Failures to respond decreased;
When talking to his/her learners, an ´ideal´ L2 teacher would…
TASK
Done
• How would an ´ideal´ teacher, according to SLA researchers,
talk? Complete the following list as many points as you feel
appropriate:
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1.
2.
2. CORRECTIVEFEEDBACK
Feedback in the languageclassroomis information that is given to the learner about
his or her performance of a learning task, usually with the objective of improving
this performance.
(Ur. 1996:242) feedback is primarily given by the teacher, and may be given in a
number of ways: the teacher may say “Yes, good!” to a learner who has answered
a question correctly; a grade or mark may be given to a piece of written work, or
an exam, or an oral activity; ateacher may write comments is the margin of learner's
essay.
2.1. Errors AndMistakes
A mistake is a kind of ´slip of the tongue´. A learner, or a native speaker,
makes amistake when he/she saysomething incorrect but which the learner
is capable of correcting. In other words, he/she ´knows´ the correct form,
but merely makes an absent-minded ´mistake´. An error, on the other hand,
cannot be self-corrected, simply because the learner does not ´know´ the
form.
Sometimes it is difficult for a teacher to know which the learner has made:
an error or mistake. A rule of thumb seems to be that the teacher gives the
learner a chance to self-correct, for example by pointing out the existence
of an error and waiting to see whether the students can self-correct or not.
If the learner can correct him/herself, then it is obviously a ´mistake´. If not,
then it may be an ´error´.
Errors are usually categorized under four broad areas:
Grammar
Pronunciation
Meaning
Appropriacy
a) How you come to school?.
TASK
Done
• Categorise each of the following sentences under one of
the heading above: error or mistake.
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b) I go always to France for my holidays.
c) I don't like traveling by sheep.
d) (Mike speaking to his boss) That's a load of rubbish, mate.
e) She suggested us to go home.
f) Oh, of course! - you're Peter, aren't you? (rising intonation on aren't
you)
g) (Student in pub) Give me a beer.
h) She went to the library to buy a book.
2.2. DifferentViewsOnError AndCorrection
a. In the cognitive code-learning view of languageacquisition,mistakes are
seen as an unfortunate but unavoidable part of the learning process.
Therefore mistakes should always be corrected, with a view to
preventing their recurrence.
b. According to interlanguage theory, mistakes are not at all regrettable,
but rather are an integral and important part of learning a language.
Giving learners feedback on mistakes (and correct language use) is seen
as directly contributing to their L2 development, enabling them to bring
their language closer to target language norms.
c. According to Krashen's his Monitor theory, corrective feedback from the
teacher does not help a learner ´acquire´ the language, it only
contributes to the learner's conscious ´monitoring´ of output. Hence the
main activity of the teacher, according to Krashen's model, should be
not to correct, but to provide the learner with plenty of comprehensible
input from which he/she can acquire the language.
d. In communicative language teaching, the main aim is to convey and
receive meaningful messages – i.e. to communicate. Perfect linguistic
competence. Is not strictly necessary in order to be able to
communicate successfully, thus not all mistakes which learners make
need to be corrected. Rather, correction should focus on those mistakes
which impede communication (use), not merely on mistakes of
´grammar´ (usage).
2.3. TheCorrectiveFeedbackProcess
We will take a look at some of the mechanics of corrective feedback – the
who, how and when of correcting students.
2.4. WhoCorrects?
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a) The teacher's job appears to be to encourage self-correction where
possible.We sawthat this would only be possibleif the student had made
a ´mistake´ rather than a ´error´.
b) Getting a student to correct him/herself gives the teacher information
about the student's state of interlanguage, and also can be argued to
encourage the student to monitor his/her output more closely for
accuracy.
c) Communicative interaction in group work may provide as much, and
possibly more, appropriate corrective feedback to learners as teacher-
fronted class tasks.
2.5. HowDoWeEncourage Self-Correction?
See information written by Chaudron (1988) of the various ways in which
teachers tend to give feedback to students on their oral performance.
2.6. When?
It all depends”. Basically it depends on the aim of the activity in which they
are engaged, and on the activity type. According to Chaudron, “when
instructional focus is on form, corrections occur more frequently”.
If the focus of the activity is on accuracy, there will be a tendency to correct
learners, while if the focus is on fluency, teachers are generally more likely
to interrupt communication, unless the error is a´global´one (an error which
impedes communication) rather than a ´local´ one (an error which does not
impede communication).
1. Students are writing a paragraph about a holiday in ones or twos.
2. Students are discussing the question of pollution in small groups.
TASK
Done
• Look at the following situations and decide if you would
correct or not. If so, say when you would do so.
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3. Students are debating on the right of women in an open class focus.
4. Students are discussing role-playing a public meeting after reading a
text, and are preparing their side of the argument.
5. Students are giving the answer to a listening comprehension exercise in
class feedback.
6. Students are checking a grammar exercise in open class.
7. Students are giving the teacher examples of the target structure ´used
to´ and the teacher is writing these examples on the board.
3. GROUPWORK
ADVANTAGES
There are some advantages to group and pair work.
Students have more opportunity for using the target language than in open
class interactions, thus they get more practice.
Group work fosters learner responsibility and independence.
Group work provides a less threatening environment for the learner to use the
L2 in, so it can enhance motivation and contribute to a feeling of co-operation
and warmth in the classroom. Thus is plays an important role in the affective
realm of the classroom.
Group work provides learners with the opportunity to use ´better´ language in
that by negotiating meaning in groups.
Teachers are able to individualize their teaching more because they are free to
monitor and observe students using language in groups.
3.1. DisadvantagesToGroupWork
There are also potential disadvantages to group and pair work:
Students many only use their mother tongue
Discipline may be a problem, the noise level may be too high when using
group work, and students may do the task badly or not at all.
Stronger students may dominate while weaker students sit back and do
nothing.
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3.2. Managing GroupWork InTheClassroom
Penny Ur (1996:234) provides what she considers to be some important
guidelines for setting up and managing smallgroup work inthe L2classroom:
4.2.1. Presentation
The instructions that are given at the beginning are crucial
Select tasks that are simple enough to describe easily
It is advisable to give the instructions before giving out the
materials or dividing the class into groups
Before giving the signto start tell the class whatthe arrangements
are for stopping: if there is atime limit, or a set signalfor stopping,
say what it is; if the groups simply stop when they have finished,
then tell them what they will have to do next.
4.2.2. Process
Go from groups, monitor, and either contribute or keep out of
way.
If you do decide to intervene, your contribution may take the form
of:
- Providing general improvement and support;
- Helping students who are having difficulty;
- Keeping the students using the target language (be present in
each group)
- Tactfully regulate participation in a discussion where you find
some students are over-dominant and others silent.
4.2.3. Ending
Try to finish the activity while the students are still enjoying it and
interested.
4.2.4. Feedback
A feedback session usually takes place in the context of full-class
by giving the right solution, pooling ideas on the board; displaying
materials the groups have produced.
Your main objective here is to express appreciation of the effort
that has been invested and its results.
4.3.Collaborative Learning
Goal structures
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Goal structures are the ways in which learning is set up or organized
in the classroom.
There are main classroom goal structures:
a. Individual work
Learners work alone tasks at their own pace. It is important to
realize that individual goal structures can be in place even
when the teacher has set up group work, for example, sit in a
circle and work on a task alone.
b. Competitive goal structure
Here learners work against each other in order to succeed. The
best work produced by a student receives the highest mark,
and the weakest receives a fail.
c. Collaborative goal structure
In this case learners work together in small groups towards a
common goal. The participation of all the group members is
crucial to the successful outcome of the task: nobody can
succeed unless everybody succeeds.
4.4.MakingCollaborative LearningWork
Collaborative learning is a type of group work. For collaborative learning
to be successful, five important factors need to be taken into account:
a) Positive interdependence: students all have to succeed for a task
to succeed and students realize that they have this common goal.
b) Individual accountability: Each member of the group has to make
an active contribution.
c) Verbal interaction: Students need to interact verbally, and this
interaction needs to be meaningful.
d) Sufficient social skills: Students need the relevant social skill, such
as communication skillleadership skills,orconflict resolution skills
so that the groups can function.
e) Team reflection: Students need to be able to see whether the
team is functioning effectively.
4.4.1. Collaborative learninggroups
Collaborative learning groups consider 2 to 4 students to be the
optimal number.
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Collaborative groups should be heterogeneous. In other words,
they should be made up of a mixture of students.
Collaborative groups can work within any time frame, from that
of a few minutes, to hours or a lesson, to longer periods of time
such as several weeks.
4.5.Individualization
Individualization in the language learning classroom is concerned with
giving learners a certain degree of freedom to choose how and what they
learn.
Good language learners tend to assume responsibility for their own
learning, and one of the aims of individualization is to promote learner’s
independence and responsibility. Another aim is to be able to cater to a
variety of learner styles.
According to Penny Ur, these are the factors to be considered:
Speed: How fast or slowly does the individual work on a task?
Level: What level of competence does the individual have in
relation to the rest of the class?
Topic: Is the topic interesting/relevant to the individual?
Language skill or teaching point: What linguistic knowledge is the
learner ready to acquire.
4. MIXEDABILITY
A more enabling metaphor for considering mixed ability is the following one
supplied by Jim Rose:
‘A metaphor of a mixed ability class which works for me is to think of the class as a
lift (elevator). Everyone needs to get into the lift to start with. Some students will
run into the lift, some will have to be dragged in. Some students will travel right to
the top of the building, some may stop at the third floor and some may only reach
the first floor, but everyone will have travelled somewhere successfully’. (1997:3).
The advantages of weaker and stronger students working together has already been
pointed to benefits for both weaker and stronger students during activities such as
oral pair work as: the more proficient learner gets practice in producing
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comprehensible output; the weaker partner gains experience in negotiating
meaning.
5.1.AdvantagesToTeachingMixedAbility Groups
Penny Ur (1996:305) details:
1. Such classes provide a much richer pool of human resources than do
similar or less mixed classes.
2. There is educational value in the actual contact between very
different kinds of people.
3. Peer teaching and collaboration are likely to be fairly common,
fostering an atmosphere of co-operation.
4. These classes can be seen as very much more challenging and
interesting to teach.
5.2.Classroom Implications
Some techniques which teachers can use in their classes:
Group work (to encourage co-operation and peer teaching).
Use the same material,but with a rangeoftasks for different levels
of proficiency.
Use extension or optimal extra activities for learners who finish
tasks early.
Remedial work.
Self-access.
Use open-ended activity types.
Teachers of particularly large mixed ability groups need to be aware of
factors such as grouping and focus (how are students seated? Who is able
to talk to whom?), personal body language (where and how do I stand, sit
etc.) and use of voice, among other things.
6. DISCIPLINE
TASK
Done
• What are your own views on this issue? Do you think that
mixed ability groups always result in more successful SLA for
learners? Or can the opposite seem to be true? Why?
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Ur offers the following definition of discipline:
Classroom discipline is a state in which both the teacher and learners accept and
consistently observe aset of rules about behaviour in the classroomwhose function
is to facilitate smooth and efficient teaching and learning in a lesson.
She states that “the relationship between discipline and learning in a lesson is a
crucial one”. Beginning teachers soon learn that if their capacity to maintain
´classroom control´ is in doubt they may be fired (Lortie).
Beginning teachers, when encountering difficulties in the classroom, tend to
respond to them with strategies they are familiar with from university or college.
Such strategies are in essence cognitive one, e.g. more and better preparation. In
following these strategies they pay too much attention to the ´task side´ of their job
and therefore fail to address what might have caused their difficulties in the first
place: the emotional relations in the classroom. Their increased effort may well
yield no better result because it has the wrong target. (Ibid: 14).
6.1 Classroom AndControl
Control, therefore, is not only part of ´teachers´ values and wishes, it is a
prominent feature of observed classroom interaction. (1995:18).
There is the risk that students will not feel involved in these kinds of
interactions, seeing them as irrelevant to their needs and interests, and, as
a result, learning may suffer.
Teacher control may also be exerted through the language itself, not only
through an insistence on correctness of form and vocabulary, but also
through the teaching of the structure of the language itself.
Excessive teacher control, can alienate learners from what is happening in
the classroom, and seriously inhibit learning.
6.2 CopingWithDiscipline InTheClassroom
External reinforces such as praise, rewards or merit marks are often
considered to be good ways of motivating underachieving or reluctant
learners. Conversely, negative reinforces such as punishments (e.g. extra
homework, detention, even physical punishment) have traditionally been
assumed to encourage ´good´ behaviour among students, or atthe very least
to discourage ´bad´ behavior.
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7 TEACHERTHINKING
Teacher thinking is concerned with the ´private´ domain, with the internal thought
and decision making processes which a teacher uses while doing his/her work, it is
concerned with the extent to which a teacher's previous learning experiences,
his/her knowledge of the subject matter and his/her beliefs about teaching and
learning affect classroom practice.
Thus teaching is no longer what the teacher does in the classroom, but why he/she
does what she does.
8.1 DecisionMakingInTeacherThinking
Decision-making processes have been divided into three phases:
a) Preactive decisions are those made before the teaching event, and
include processes such as lesson planning, choice of materials and so on.
b) Interactive decisions are those made on the spot, while the teacher is
actually working with the class, and could include the decision to drop an
activity, to react to an emerging discipline problem in a certain way, and
so on.
c) Post-active decisions are those that take place after the lesson.
What is it that makes us do certain things in the classroom in certain
ways? What exactly is it that informs our ´teacher thinking´?
Let's consider the following:
1. THEWYINWHICHWEWERE TAUGHT
The period of exposure to teachers as models has been called an
“apprenticeship of observation” (Gutierrez Almarza). Thus relatively
new teachers may often find that, despite their training, they may start
to behave in the classroom against their own training and principles,
particularly in times of stress.
2. TEACHER BELIEFS
Teachers' beliefs about how a second language is learned, and how
that language should be taught, are central to the way in which
teachers behave in the language classroom.
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If you as a teacher believe that languages are learned through
communication, then you will give your students plenty of
communication activities. If, on the other hand, you believe that a
language is best learned through translating sentences, then chances
are your students will spend a lot of time doing just that in your
classes.
3. BELIEFS ABOUT LEARNERS
Teachers view their students in at least seven different ways. Meighan
points to seven different metaphors through which teachers may
construe their learners:
Resisters
Receptacles
Raw material
Clients
Partners
Individual
explorers
Democratic
explorers
4. THEAFFECTIVECLIMATE
The social or affective climate in the classroom is a top priority for
most teachers, and that many teaching decisions are made with this
element as a deciding factor.
Small group and pair work is often seen by teachers as particularly
beneficial for students in terms of meeting their affective needs, and
again, a teacher's decision to use such classroom groupings may stem
more from his/her beliefin the social benefits of group work than from
any strictly ´pedagogical´ view.
1. ´Teacher thinking´ refers not just to the way we think as teachers, but
also to what effect the way we think has on our teaching.
TASK
Done
• Are the following statements true or false? Justify each of
your answers.
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2. Our belief as teachers affects our classroom management more than
any other element in the classroom.
3. Examining our pro-, inter- and post-active decisions as teachers is the
best way to investigate our thinking as teachers.
4. As teachers we are doomed to repeat teaching behaviour that we
´learnt´ through our ´apprenticeship of observation´.
5. There is always a mismatch between a teachers ´espoused´ theories
and his/her real classroom behaviour.
6. Teacher's beliefs, which are formed early in life, are very difficult to
change.
7. A teacher will usually have a deeply-rooted (possibly unconscious)
view about who his/her learners are, and this view is related to how
the teacher believes languages are learned.
8. Talking into account the affective climate in a classroom is likely to
affect a teacher's classroom management decisions.