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5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class
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LEON - ANPI Regional Conference
October 3rd, 2015. UNAN Campus
Rodolfo Chaviano M.A.
5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class Memorable
- MOTIVATION – Teacher’s personality and SS interests
- STUDENT CENTERED INSTRUCTION – Learning vs.
Teaching.
- FLUENCY VS ACCURACY – Grammar Advocates
- SOMETHING NEW TO BE LEARNED – Vocabulary
Enhancement
- INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY = COMPETENCIES –
Assignments & The Socio Cultural Meaning of Language
Could you please organized them in order of priority?
1- MOTIVATION Name 2 personality features that reminds you of your favorite teacher
Is Dressing Code relevant for you or not? Provide 2 sound reasons.
Voice and manner might contribute to acceptance or rejection of teacher
by the group. Any experience you can recall.
Which activities related to their community or family values, Do SS feel like
enjoying the most. Name 2.
Do you use peer pressure as a way to stablish competition within the group.
Tell one experience.
How do challenging activities motivate SS to participate, or make them feel
frustrated in your class.
Your turn… Team 1
5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class Memorable
1- MOTIVATION – Teacher’s personality and SS interests
50% of the class motivation and interests rely on the Teacher’s
personality.
Voice, dressing code, and manners to stablish rapport with SS
Get involved with Ss community activities and personal interest
Foster peer pressure and challenging activities
Get acquainted with family values, let SS talk about it.
From the little spark may burst a mighty flame. DANTE
2-Student-Centered Learning
Tell one class activity in which STT versus TTT for the same class
objectives
How much time is devoted to individual tasks and to team work in
your daily class.?
Which activities will you set to become a facilitator rather than a
presenter?
How would you have your SS learn the concepts rather than providing them with concepts?
Explain the statement in 21st Century Instruction : “learn how to
learn”
Your turn… Team 2
5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class Memorable
2- STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING
STT vs TTT make the difference in learning a foreign language.
Student-centered instruction guarantees the student’s
individualization and group work in the class.
Teacher must be a facilitator rather than a lecturer
Critical thinking provides setting for the understanding of concepts
rather that providing the concepts by the teacher (Google is the new
Guru of Knowledge)
3-FLUENCY VERSUS ACCURACY Do we follow grammar rules in everyday speech? Can you provide 2
examples?
Why after teaching a grammar rule to your students, they misused it or do not recall how to use it?
What’s the inconvenience of following book-bound classes? Do you have a course syllabus or just follow the textbook? Is it a grammar syllabus?
Which fluency activities should you do in you daily classes? 3 Examples.
Shall we teach Regular or Irregular verbs first? Would you teach Present Perfect to beginners? Support your answer.
Do you know what Metalanguage is? Is Metalanguage relevant for your SS?
Is teaching pronunciation regarded as accuracy or fluency?
Your turn… Team 3
ACHIEVING LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES
Performance PertinentLanguage
FLUENCY ACCURACYCOMPETENCE
5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class Memorable
3- FLUENCY VS ACCURACY – Grammar Advocates
Language use versus Language usage.
Are Grammar rules number 1 priority in your class?
Book bound courses and grammar metalanguage
Fluency activities to convey meaning and interaction is actual language
Some grammar myths and new trends in language learning.
utterance
Definition of UTTERANCE
1: something uttered; especially : an oral or written
statement : a stated or published expression
2: vocal expression : speech
3: power, style, or manner of speaking
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utterance
Definition of UTTERANCE
4-SOMETHING NEW TO BE LEARNED TODAY
Name 5 utterances or phrases that are never studied in the book contents.
Do you use Word Categories and association strategies to increase vocabulary?
Do you teach Word derivation in order to have SS learn build up their individual language (idiolect)?
What’s Word collocation? (verb, adjectives). Examples.
Explain the process of Analogy in the enhancement of vocabulary. How does it work?
How to move up from the physical world to the abstract world using words?
Syntax in Language 1 vs Syntax in Language 2. Do you deal with that in your class?
Your turn… Team 4
5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class Memorable
4- SOMETHING NEW TO BE LEARNED TODAY–
Vocabulary Enhancement
Make sure in each class SS learn, at least, a new language
utterance, a concept or a form.
Vocabulary is learnt, it is not taught.
Vocabulary enhancement relies on individual tasks and
assignments
Plan vocabulary classes as a challenge for your SS. Memory and
Analogy in language acquisition.
Word meaning and the formation of concepts. From Word images to
abstract words.
5-INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY-Assignments & the Socio Cultural
Meaning of Language
How much is retained by a student who learns 10 new words in a class ?
Task–based approach and project–based approach as a way to have the students learn.
Have you ever used it?
Do you know what “formative assessment” means?.
Do shy students and low achievers do better if working in a team or on out of class activitiesand assignments? Explain.
How fast is the process of scaffolding in a scheduled grammar program as compared with a series of assignments to achieve the same goals?.
The cultural meaning of language relies on word acquisition, the word formation, and exposure to the target language. Do you agree?
Can you provide examples for each of the previous learning processes?
Your turn… Team 5
Building Up Competencies
Language competencies rely mainly on:
⃠ the acquisition of word-meaning.
⃠ the formation of concepts.
⃠ the understanding of the socio-culturalmeaning of language.
5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class Memorable
5- INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY / COMPETENCIES –
Assignments & The Socio Cultural Meaning of Language
Learning Process is proportional to independent activity (7/10 ratio)
Low achievers depend on individual tasks, a their own path and pace
Assignments contribute to scaffolding in the process of learning
The cultural meaning of language is achieved when exposed to the
target language or by research.
Language culture involves, clichés, slang, sayings, idioms, proverbs,
gestures, etc., but often they are not regularly included in the program.
5 Tips to Make Your EFL Class Memorable
REFERENCES:1- Motivation Matters: 40% Of High School Students Chronically Disengaged From School
MAR 13, 2013 @ 8:51 AM 92,217 VIEWS. James Marshall Crotty , FORBESTech
2- The Importance of Motivation in Teaching Learning Process to Reach Learning Goal
http://ajiabdu.blogspot.com/2008/12/importance-of-motivation-in-teaching.html
3- Learner Centered Theories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlESOh_MNdY
Uploaded on May 25, 2011 Julie Finlay
4- Student-Centered Learning Addressing Faculty Questions about Studentcentered Learning
http://ccliconference.org/files/2010/03/Froyd_Stu-CenteredLearning.pdf
Jeffrey Froyd, Nancy Simpson Texas A&M University
5- English Fluency vs Accuracy 13.00 video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2g3DtSNswg
