Mixed abilities classes present challenges for teachers as students have different language levels. It is important for teachers to choose appropriate content and strategies to keep all students engaged at their own pace. There are disadvantages like some students preferring individual work, but also advantages like developing tolerance and cooperation. Teachers should vary their teaching, use games and visuals, and allow individualization and personalization to cater to different learning styles and keep students motivated.

1. ADVANCED LISTENING
TEACHER: MSC.MARICELA MADRID
STUDENT: VERÓNICA MORENO

2. MIXED ABILITIES CLASSES
It´s vey important to be aware of what mix ability classes are, and how and how often they
affect an English class. When teaching any other subject, let say Math on fifth grade, for
example, the level of knowledge that students have a very close, probably some are better than
others, but more or less, everyone will be able to perform the same tasks, but English is a
different reality, since the schools around the country, and even in the same city, don´t have the
same curriculum, not to say the same level. Under these circumstances very often English
teachers have to deal with mixability classes, which become a real challenge especially for
young unexperienced teachers. The main points that we should have into consideration are
content, because we have to be able to handle almost the same content but with different
difficulty degrees, motivation is another factor to take in consideration, we can´t allow the
students with lower level to feel frustration and lost interest in the subject, it´s necessary to
use the right strategies to keep them going at similar pace than the more advance students.
Language production is something that we must try harder with a mix ability class, since not
everyone will be able to speak or write on the same level. Never mind, leaving aside all these
challenges I think that teaching mix ability classes make English teachers especial teachers.

3. MIXED ABILITIES CLASSES
Mixed abilities classes is a
great challenge for the
teachers because the
students are grouped
according to the level of
language, in any class, it is
a group of mixed level.
BACKGROUNDINTERESTS
AGE
GENDER
PERSONALITY
MOTIVATION
COGNITIVE ABILITY
LEARNING STYLES

4. THERE ARE SPECIFIC PROBLEMS THAT THE TEACHERS HAVER WITH MIXED
ABILITIES GROUPS
The learning of the students is very
important, make sure that with the
activities all learn
meet the different needs of students
It is very important to choose the
right material
cater for different interests
reach students with different learning styles
pace to use" too fast, too slow.

5. AS WELL AS THERE ARE DISADVANTAGES, THERE ARE ALSO
ADVANTAGES WITH MIXED ABILITIES CLASSES SUCH AS:
such educational principles as
tolerance, respect and
cooperation can be developed.
Mixed abilities can even make a
teacher improve their teaching
and different learning styles
When the teacher cannot reach every
single individual, he or she can have the
learners teach one another, taking
advantage of the diversity in the group

6. A KEEPING THEM MOTIVATED
VARIATION
Teachers should vary their
teaching to achieve an
optimum level in their group
Teacher can teach all of the
learners some of the time, some
of the learners all of the time
but not all of the learners all of
the time.
LEVEL
PACE
CLASSROOM
ORGANIZATION
DEMANDS ON THE
LEARNERS
AMOUNT
Some students learn best on their own, others
really like working in groups. Some students
prefer to learn from the teacher. Some
learners are more visual others more aural
some are more productive, while others prefer
to listen or read more reflectively.

7. INTEREST
Teachers should ensure
that all students feel
interested in one or
another way.
Game-like features.
Visual materials.
Maximum participation.
Any game has rules which stop you
achieving success too easily. This
presents participants with a challenge,
and this challenge can increase their
interest considerably.
If the visual aid is something fun like a
video, etc. increases the interest of a
collaborative work.
This is the key to effective
teaching and learning.
Everybody should be involved
at the same time, rather than
having a series of interactions
between the teacher and
students.
Game-like features.
Visual materials.

8. COLLABORATION
Learners work together in order to get a better result than
they would on their own.
All activities based on reaction or
brainstorming can also be
collaboration in the mixed-level
classroom
There are also disadvantages because sometimes
students prefer to work on their own and can not
do much because there are students who prefer
to work alone and not in a group, it also depends
a lot on the motivation that the teacher has

9. INDIVIDUALIZATION:
The teacher must allow
variations according to the
level and speed, even the
exercise must be guided by
the teacher or established
Different starting points.
Giving a time limit rather than a quantity-
of-word limit.
Allowing self-checking and only
asking the teacher when there is a
problem
Learners choose where to start.
Giving an instruction like Do
as much as you can in five
minutes
This allows students to
take more responsibility
for their learning and to
work at their own pace.

10. PERSONALIZATION
Learners express their
own opinions, thoughts
and desires.
Learners relate to
their own individual
experiences
Share your taste, your
thoughts, their criteria is
a very important part for
learners
It is very
illuminating to hear
other people´s
ideas about a
language class

11. OPEN ENDING.
Provide students with
open-ended exercises
and activities. An
open-ended item has
many right answers, so
learners can respond
at different levels.
A closed-ended
exercise is
homogeneous.
Apart from the fact that this can be
done without understanding, it is
inappropriate for a heterogeneous
class.

12. COMPULSORY PLUS OPTIONAL
Giving classes a personalized
form is a way to give
students more than what is
required
Give activities that are
sufficiently easy for all
students to do all or
almost
Every group is heterogeneous, and
we must take this into account.

13. After listening to the audios of my peers, I think it is very important
to know about the mixed abilities classes and to apply them in each of
the classes, so that the students can improve their learning, each
detail is a small part of what we should do constantly in each of the
activities or lessons. penny gives us good tips to be able to pray them
and follow the real procedure, this could be quite the most easy and
effective class
CONCLUTION