You can use realia at a low level to introduce vocabulary but it's also useful at a higher level to bring the world into the classroom. Our current unit in...
Hi All, Roger has put a wiki online for teachers of English as a second or foreign language: http://wikigogy.org A wiki is a website where you can not just...
What great ideas - I particularly love the fruit poem! One of my students has actually taken the initiative with the realia/vocab - everything in her house...
It can be cut up and put pictures into categories, have students describe a picture in a composition or poem, place words under a feeling description like ...
I have some students who frequently don't tune into the class. They got low scores during the first semester. They also sit in the back of the room or near the...
There is another possibility. You can learn from your North American colleagues and remove the chair from behind your desk, forcing you to move about the ...
A lot depends on the age group you're teaching. I was having the same problem with my 19-20 yr. olds until another teacher gave me an idea which seems to work:...
Joe Alvaro
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Feb 5, 2007 12:11 am
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... Dave...I am surprised you even bring up such a fundamental aspect of class functions and discipline. I learned within the first week of teaching in China: ...
If you're going to do that Dave, you might also consider shifting the wall flowers to the center. The shyest people in class usually sit on the extreme flanks....
... This might work but it might just alienate them since you are forcing them to change seats. You can get them to change seats for groupwork giving valid...
Dick Tibbetts gave a number of excellent suggestions for getting to those who don't seem to want to learn, but admits that he doesn't have a magic answer. May...
... All these might work but they could equally alienate the student and make them hate you as you are putting pressure on them that they do not want. It's...
Dick, Mert, I have gone back and forth on this point many times. I truly desire to reach every student and give them a little boost up the ladder toward...
... Sometimes I wish I could have that attitude but somehow I just can't bring myself to do it. I keep looking for someway to reach them. I tend to believe...
I have been watching the discussion about motivation and location: the discussion related to motivating students and the suggestions that dictating the seating...
Hello all, Well, as we are ESL/EFL teachers, and being in a country where we need a sponsor in order to work and reside in China; our goal is to motivate the...
I've just confirmed my own belief that guessing from context will not always get you what you want to know. I hadn't heard the word "empherical" before the...
I think we need to get this motivation thing into a bit of context. If, as is the case with many teachers, they have 10 or 11 separate classes once a week for...
Karen Stanley made her guess as to the meaning of the word "empherical," but didn't let us in on the final meaning of the word. If I can make a guess, the...
... . ... Karen: Your post on 'empirical' got me to thinking. It is, indeed, a word seldom used outside the scientific disciplines. In fact I had not used that...
Exactly Logan. I mean, you are exactly correct in your comment about the fact that one of our goals, as ESL/EFL workers abroad, is, of necessity, that we need ...
I think this phenomenon may also be linked to the circumstances many EFL teachers find themselves in. Namely: -Many EFL teachers teaching in China, Japan, etc....
Another possibility is the student meant ephemeral. ... e·phem·er·al (Ä-fÄ•m'É™r-É™l) pronunciation <http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/pron.gif>...
"I suppose, when so many governing bodies around the world, so many studies and such do or seem to suggest that the potential quality of a person's life...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2005664,00.html (More at the link) Schools will soon be able to swap French and German for Mandarin and Urdu...
"If, as is the case with many teachers, they have 10 or 11 separate classes once a week for one and a half hours - and, an average of 50 students in each...
... me to develop the name cards I spoke of earlier.[2]) Then you can apply what they call "Differentiating Instruction" to better meet the needs of the...
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