How To Help Students Learn

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How To Help Students Learn
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MOTIVATION
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Students need motivation to use the language as
often as possible.
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How can students use the language spontaneously?
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Opening, keeping, and closing a conversation
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Learners who are encouraged to communicate are
likely to acquire a language faster and more
efficiently
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What are key factors in keeping motivation?
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Success and Satisfaction
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Success depends less on materials, techniques
and linguistic analyses, and more on what goes
inside and between the people in the
classroom.(Earl Stevick, 1980)
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How to motivate students?How to maintain
interest?
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The nearer language teaching can come to real
life, the more interesting it will be.
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Teachers should

• Create a nice atmosphere in the classroom
• Be interested in students as people
• Play their role as teachers very professionally
• Praise and encourage students

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Teachers should

• Be honest
• Be creative
• Personalise
• Use students knowledge
• Look at all students in class
• Make sure that everyone is called on equally

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Teachers should

• Be neutral and fair
• Be flexible
• Build confidence in their students
• Encourage the use of the language outside the
  classroom

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Teachers should

• Encourage good, not unclear or one-word replies
• Listen fully to students
• Vary their techniques for asking questions
• Limit their TTT. Maximise STT

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Teachers should

• Take account of different levels within the class
• Be careful how they put people together in a
  classroom
• Deal with individual problems after the class
• Give a time limit

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Teachers should

• Correct their students systematically
• Make sure everyone knows the simple classroom
  language
• Use Pairwork / Groupwork as much as possible

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Make sure you give clear, simple, and logical
instructions.
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Pairwork / Groupwork

• Students have added support of a partner
• Takes the focus away from the teacher and makes
  the lesson more student-centred
• Gives students the opportunity to share ideas and
  knowledge

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Pairwork / Groupwork

• Gives students more speaking practice
• Allows shyer students to speak in a less
  threatening environment
• Fun and motivating for students

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Pairwork / Groupwork

• Provides variety
• Helps students develop communication skills
• Gives the teacher the chance to listen to
  students as they work

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Material
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Course for adult and young adult beginners and
false beginners
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• The Teachers Manual provides very full lesson
  plans for each unit.

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• Present the target language
• Provide practice of the language
• Encourage creative application ofe the newly
  acquired language

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Standard Instructions

• Briefly review the previous lesson
• Use the context of the classroom
• Set up the situation

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Listening Activities

• Listening to the teacher
• Listening to classmates
• Listening to himself

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Speaking Activities

• Act out the conversation
• Listen and repeat
• Monitor Pairwork

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Reading Activities

• Students are supposed to read everything that
  appears in the students handout
• Ask students to read silently, at their own speed

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Writing Activities

• Copying from the board
• Exercises
• Dictation

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MOTIVATING GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
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THE LAST LETTER GAME

• Student 1 Twenty
• Student 2 Yellow
• Student 3 Wall

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ASKING QUESTIONS

• São Paulo
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• Eduardo
• January 16th
• 1986

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WORD TENNIS

• Teacher fruit
• Team A bananas
• Team B oranges
• Team A strawberries
• Team B grapes
• Etc

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TIC TAC TOE

• radio, dirty, winter, April, red, week, Sundays,
  weekends, breakfast, garden, table, teacher,
  nurse, car, water.

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TIC TAC TOE
Radio
April
Winter
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MEMORY GAME

• 1. Write on the board some pattern sentences you
  want your students to learn.
• 2. In pairs, ask them to read the sentences aloud
  twice.
• 3. Erase two words in each sentence. Ask students
  to say the sentences trying to remember what was
  erased.

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MEMORY GAME

• 4. Erase two other words in each sentences and
  ask them to try to remember the sentences.
• 5. Keep on erasing words and at the end check if
  your students can remember all the sentences.

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