On Being a Language Teacher: A Personal and Practical Guide by Norma López-Burton

By Norma López-Burton

On Being a Language Teacher offers an cutting edge, own method of second-language instructing. via illustrative own anecdotes, this article courses new and aspiring language academics via key pedagogical suggestions whereas encouraging effective mirrored image by means of school room veterans. An ancillary site offers on-line movies to counterpoint the textual content via displaying an skilled instructor utilising the book’s lessons.
 
In a marketplace ruled by means of dense theoretical ways to language pedagogy, this article presents an immediately available, functional set of training instruments for educators in any respect degrees. Its available type and affordability provide it the pliability to function both a major or a supplemental textual content for educating assistants, scholars in credential courses, or undergraduates in utilized linguistics courses.

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How about here? ” • Monitor: While the students are busy with the communicative activity, you could quickly take attendance or return a few papers, but your main role is to roam around answering questions and making sure that students are on the same page, are doing the right exercise, are following directions, or are not getting off track talking about their private lives. • Time: Keep a quick pace. Call “time” before things start to drag. Give a “two-minute warning” when three-quarters of the class has reached the exercise’s objective.

It is not enough to tell the students to choose a leader. Invariably, some students will not be listening or will be distracted by their new cute classmate. To keep things moving, you have to ask each group (always in the target language): “Who is the leader here? 12/12/13 2:53 PM 44 IN THE CLASSROOM And the secretary? Good, thank you. How about here? ” • Monitor: While the students are busy with the communicative activity, you could quickly take attendance or return a few papers, but your main role is to roam around answering questions and making sure that students are on the same page, are doing the right exercise, are following directions, or are not getting off track talking about their private lives.

Student 2: In July. Student 1: Wow. That’s interesting! indb 45 12/12/13 2:53 PM 46 IN THE CLASSROOM After sharing small, ask two couples to share big, then finally do a wholeclass check to share bigger. ). It is important to monitor this carefully so that students, in the heated debate of trying to convince each other, don’t slip back into their native language. A follow-up to this activity could be writing the results on the board, comparing the different groups’ opinions or findings, and possibly reaching a class-wide conclusion.

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