My video experience
First of all I was aware that I had to prepare an everyday class considering the time and my students. Thus, it had to be brief and entertaining in order to succeed.
I decided to start with a brief review of what will come next to make sure transition from one activity to the next one will be smooth.
The warm-up was intended to introduce the topic and use of the new language. I felt very pleased to see that they remembered countables and uncountables.
At this stage students use their schemata and are aware of learnt concepts (Harmer, 1991). Also I always kept in mind giving instructions when needed being these clear and loud.
As my group is a pre-intermediate one I considered not forcing students because if I did, acquisition of the language will be blocked (Brown, 1994). I constantly tried to elicit answers from them. Thus, their participation during the warm-up was free.
After the students have been introduced to the structure, they were given opportunities to interact with their peers in some kind of discourse and focus their attention on the activity asked. Most of the drills were controlled to let them go from accuracy to fluency.
I intended to present grammar in an inductive approach trying to keep natural language as I think it is a better way of acquiring the rules subconsciously and students feel relaxed not being overwhelmed by grammatical explanations (Brown, 1994). In addition, it is a way to motivate students allowing them to discover the rules rather than to give them everything.
I think the lesson was very interesting because it is a real situation that may happen to them. It was presented in both reading and speaking approaches as well as correcting students was done by themselves while they were working in pairs and then by me. This is useful for accuracy work and to let them understand the meaning of the new language they are learning (Harmer, 1991).
References:
Brown, D. (1994) Teaching by Principles, Prentice Hall, USA
Harmer, J. (1991) The practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, USA
Judith Quintana Vessi
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I like this way of teaching by involving students into the presentation of the grammar, asking them to participate on how the rules work. I agree with you that students learn better and they thank teachers by being active, instead of a boring quiet class.
ResponderEliminarAs you said, you personalized the activity into students' real life, by doing this students feel the learning as useful for them and not only receiving information.