EN 2110: English Language Teaching Methodology I
The good language teacher
· What is good
language teaching?
· The diverse roles
and responsibilities of a successful teacher, discuss under 4 main categories:
1. Source of expertise 2. Source of advice 3. Management roles 4. Facilitator
of learning
Classroom management
· Classroom
organization: physical environment of the classroom, sight, sound comfort,
seating arrangements, chalkboard use, equipment, teacher’s voice and body
language
· Management during
the lesson
Classroom language
· Language for
social interaction, e.g. why is Rohan absent?
· Language for
classroom organization-maintaining discipline
· Language of
instruction, e.g. get into groups of four. Listen to me please.
Questioning techniques
· Purpose of
teacher’s questions: 1. Opportunity / impetus to produce language, 2. Initiate
chain reaction and speech interaction, 3. Immediate feedback about student
comprehension, i.e. teacher can use student responses to diagnose linguistic or
content difficulties, 4. to provide a model for language thinking
· Type of questions:
have been classified according to different criteria: 1. What kind of thinking
is involved-plain recall, analysis, evaluation, 2. Genuine or display
questions, 3. Closed or open, 4. Convergent / divergent questions
· Criteria for
effective questioning: 1. Clarity, 2. Learning value, 3. Interest, 4.
Availability, i.e. can most of the students try to answer it, 5. Extension –
does it invite and encourage extended and varied answers, 6. Teacher reaction.
Are the learners sure that their responses will be related to with respect
Pair and group work
· Importance of pair
and group work in TESL
· Selecting
appropriate group techniques, difference between the two types, e.g. pair work:
short, linguistically simple, quite controlled in terms of the structure of the
task.
· Planning group
work
Teaching aids
· Advantages of
using teaching aids
· Types of teaching
aids: low technology and high technology
· Effective use of
teaching aids in the classroom
