Bringing the world into the classroom is a must for the language learning process. Cultural issues, for instance, provide excellent opportunities for meaningful classes and encourage students to actively participate. Here is an article that offers several ideas on how to enrich your EFL classes and make them more interesting by using the students’ background knowledge.
Verissimo Toste, an Oxford teacher trainer, looks at some different ways the language learning experience can be enriched.
More and more, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is being taught in mainstream schools around the world. As part of a larger curriculum of general education, EFL teachers have an opportunity to focus on aspects of learning beyond grammar, vocabulary, and the traditional four skills. With the aim of enriching the language learning experience, I would like to focus on some of these aspects. For the experienced EFL teacher, these will not be new, but I hope that by focussing on them here, it will encourage teachers to give them more importance in their classrooms.
Encourage questions
This may seem obvious, but it is not always easy, especially when a lot of education leads many students to become passive recipients of information.
Before beginning a lesson or a unit of work…
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