Showing posts with label е. Show all posts
Showing posts with label е. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

My one-to-one student just wants to chat | Recipes for the EFL Classroom

My one-to-one student just wants to chat | Recipes for the EFL Classroom
timjulian says:
May 4, 2015 at 4:34 pm

Hi Jonny, really nice idea and template, which I’m going to nick! I also find it useful (on occasions) to record my private students on my phone using an app like Recordium (I’m sure there are many others). I often do this to practise presentation skills. The student thinks for a sec what he/she wants to say before beginning. I normally limit the recording to a couple of minutes, then we playback, analyse errors, and, most importantly the student has another go, trying to improve accuracy and fluency. I’ll often say after the first attempt, especially if there were a lots of ums and ers, “OK, that was 2′ 36″ – now try to say the same thing in less than two minutes. They find it really helpful in my experience.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

PAPERLESS: Do You Provide Content For Students or Draw It From Them?

[PAPERLESS:] Do You Provide Content For Students or Draw It From Them?
... socially-constructed knowledge as opposed to paper-led facts.
... emergent intelligence & linguistic awareness as opposed to expense, bored scribbles and static scripts.
... emotional/social intelligence, self-expression and the story of language.
... everyday interaction as opposed to gluts of paper blocking the flow of humanistic linguistics.
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3) What are the pedagogical reasons for running a paperless classroom?The advantage is primarily that it switches the focus of the course from providing content for the students to drawing the content from them. Classes became primarily about the students talking about their experiences and interests.
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5) What was the most fundamental insight you gained?Consistency of approach is the most powerful tool in education. No one activity, no matter how engaging, will lead to learning. It is the consistent implementation of an approach in all classes and by all teachers that makes a progamme successful.