Notes on teaching technique
How do I teach ESL
Teamwork! How do I work with a team? I usually am the moderator, clarifiers, thermostat. Resource person, trivia person.
ESL-wise, modern approaches stress real communication, using language for real tasks rather than drilling.
Scenarios. Conversation. Grammar is important but learn it naturally.
mistakes:
Another thing you might talk about is error-correction. Modern approaches have teachers provide immediate error correction in grammar-focused activities (like when you've just taught a bit of grammar and you ask students to make example sentences with it) and provide delayed error correction during communicative activities so as not to interrupt the flow of communication.
For mistakes:
A gesture or expression that indicates that they should look back at what they just said can be effective if used consistently. The CELTA said I should "recast" what the student said correctly, but students don't seem to get it when I do that.
Make a little paddle like Bugs Bunny's/ Road Runner's "BANG!" one
And don't make a rude noise or say anything
Sure. A constructed example might be where one student has a labeled diagram of a street with businesses and bus stops and such, and the other student has a mostly unlabeled one. The student with the unlabeled diagram uses prepositions of place (next to, across from, above, etc.) to question the other student and write in the labels on his copy.
Another is to explain how to put something together- like a kid's toy or a meccano/erector set, etc.
How do you teach vocabulary?
1) teach vocab
2) provide experience
3) Introduce conceptual framework
Key word, information, memory cue (mnemonic)
Teamwork! How do I work with a team? I usually am the moderator, clarifiers, thermostat. Resource person, trivia person.
ESL-wise, modern approaches stress real communication, using language for real tasks rather than drilling.
Scenarios. Conversation. Grammar is important but learn it naturally.
mistakes:
Another thing you might talk about is error-correction. Modern approaches have teachers provide immediate error correction in grammar-focused activities (like when you've just taught a bit of grammar and you ask students to make example sentences with it) and provide delayed error correction during communicative activities so as not to interrupt the flow of communication.
For mistakes:
A gesture or expression that indicates that they should look back at what they just said can be effective if used consistently. The CELTA said I should "recast" what the student said correctly, but students don't seem to get it when I do that.
Make a little paddle like Bugs Bunny's/ Road Runner's "BANG!" one
And don't make a rude noise or say anything
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Sure, role-playing can be good for task-based lessons. Information gaps, either natural or constructed, are good. That's where one student or group of students knows something that the others must find out with language. -
10/08/2014 19:54
Jim Comer
One group has to give directions to the other? Or has to explain something?
Sure. A constructed example might be where one student has a labeled diagram of a street with businesses and bus stops and such, and the other student has a mostly unlabeled one. The student with the unlabeled diagram uses prepositions of place (next to, across from, above, etc.) to question the other student and write in the labels on his copy.
Another is to explain how to put something together- like a kid's toy or a meccano/erector set, etc.
How do you teach vocabulary?
1) teach vocab
2) provide experience
3) Introduce conceptual framework
Key word, information, memory cue (mnemonic)