English Teaching Methodologies 2009 Blog

Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much

      Teacher have to decide some rules.(For example ,”You have to speak more than 5 sentence”) And  take a thinking time to prepare what they speak.   

Students might talk about another topic with their friends so the class might become noisy

Teacher walk around in the classroom,and ask [...]

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Group works management is difficult

When students do group works, they listen to ideas of all group members and write down on their worksheets. Teachers sometimes attend group works.
 
Students might talk about another topic with their friends so the class might become noisy

Teachers don’t give students free time in class. So, students do something like reading, writing, [...]

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 ・Cannot correct mistakes
　In group work,  it’s difficult for teacher to look over whole class because group work is class for raising students’ subjective attitude. So teacher has to walk around the classroom. 

・Students use Japanese
 I thought it is good to set levels of using English which is kind of last class we had. Students hate compulsion [...]

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・Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much .
→The teacher can put a ledear per a group. Before activities, the teacher holds a small meeting with leaders and talk about a next activity.  Then, the teacher ask them to try to ask students who don’t speak so much in the activity.
・Students might talk about [...]

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1. Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much
I think good that teacher decides chairman in a group as students have discussion . And tacher decides a rule to speak one time of one in a group. Chairman advances the disucussion.
6. Students use Japanese
Because some students lose interest  when they must not use the Japanese at all, teacher gives them the [...]

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＊It is hard to monitor
To monitor, the teacher gives students group work about writing activities. Then they will write on the sheet, the teacher can check and evaluate after.
＊Students use Japanese
As we do on last class, teacher writes levels 1～5.For example, level 1 is all students use English only, and level 2 is they almost use English. Then [...]

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Students talk with others whom they know well.

To overcome this problem we teachers should make some rules and worksheets. For example students cannot finish the excersise unless they speak to at least 10 others.

Mangement is difficult.

If we teachers don’t see the whole students in the class, some students don’t speak and act. So we have to walk around [...]

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・The teacher cannot correct learner mistake
 Teachers should walk around the class and listen to students talking.They can correct their mistakes each time.
・ Students use Japanese
Teachers make the students evaluate themselves whether they use Japanese a lot or not.
・Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much
Teachers should put a program director in every group.He/she has [...]

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Students use Japanese
Students do not challenge themselves
 
    I think the students don’t have confidence, so they use japanese and they are  positive.
    The teacher and the students should practice more before the activity.    During the activity, the teacher should walk around in the classroom.    If there is a student who doesn’t try to speak English or is negative, [...]

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□Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much
I think that teacher should give some thinking time or do some group work before teacher asks some question for students.And teacher should provide  some chances to speak English for inactive students,for example, easy and symple question.
□It takes a lot of time – cannot [...]

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