rozumiemnic: Try to "throw the ball" to the students as much as possible...for example if one student asks you a question don't answer it, but open it up to the class...." Does anyone else know the answer?" Just think about YOU talking less and the students talking more...use your body language (koff koff) and eye contact and students names (John???) to encourage this.
Agreed. This is the "student centred' learning. Try not to lecture them... ask them a lot more and try to get them to realise the answer themselves as much as possible. CELTA loves this. One little trick is after each exercise, ask them to compare with a partner (in English of course).
delphiandomine: What drives me nuts about this is that sometimes, there's a need for the teacher to talk much more than the students.
Yeah. I'm teaching Arabs at the moment and some of them simply have no concept about certain aspects of writing and useage of grammar. I have to bluntly tell them and lecture them about it because this is how they've been taught. They aren't taught to think in the same way many European students are.
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