1. Motivating Learning in
low level teens.
Sue Naylor

2. Low level teens
• Low self-esteem and confidence.
• High levels of social anxiety.
• Lower levels of literacy.
• Delayed levels of language development.
• Weaker verbal skills and vocabulary levels.
• Lack of higher order organisational skills.
• Hostility towards the language classroom.

3. Develop initial relationships
Talk to your partner for 2 minutes about your lives.
Say “hello”
Where do you teach?
What levels do you teach?
What do you think is the biggest challenge teaching
for you?
Etc.
Who in this class?

4. Provide boundaries

5. Think - Pair – Share
Kagan (1994)
Fisher, R. Teaching children to learn 2005 p.96
• Stages:
• 1. Students Listen while the teacher (or
another) poses the question or problem.
• 2. Students are then given time to think
• 3. Students then collaborate
• 4. Students share their work with the rest of
the group.

6. Stages
Think – pair - share
• Teacher input grammar / Vocabulary –
Individual work. (homework)
• Student created collaborative material (story /
script / presentation).
• Teacher led error correction.
• Students review work and create material to
share or display – (Dfilm/ presentations/
collaborative stories etc)
• Final error correction focus (whole group)

7. Online tools

8. Reflection

9. Collaboration can….
• Enable peer assisted learning.
• Reduce anxiety
• Increase in self confidence and self esteem
• Increase motivation
• Create positive attitudes towards language
learning.

10. Questions