Classroom Management for Teaching English as a Foreign Language - Common Issues
There are some other classroom management issues that we need to consider and they may include issues such as writing on the board, giving students individual attention, the use of teacher talk time, the way in which we should give instructions to our students, the building and maintaining of rapport with our students, and finally the one that perhaps most new teachers particularly spend a lot of time worrying and thinking about, is the issue of classroom discipline. So what we'd like to do is to take each of these in turn and look at some of the major issues surrounding these classroom management issues.
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There are many teaching methodologies but it has been said that there is not one single best method for everyon.
Here are some of these methodologie.
The oldest and the most popular among the teaching methodologies is the Classical Method, now known as Grammar-translatio.
The purpose of this method is basically to translate to and from the target languag.
This will work well if both languages have the same grammar structur.
This method was intended to develop reading and writing skills but not speaking skill.
Because this method was unnatural, natural method was develope.
It was known as the direct metho.
In this method, the teaching is done in the target language by recreating the same conditions as how native language was learn.
Language learning should be much more communicative and much more natura.
One methodology is the Audio-lingualis.
This involves acquiring habits and concentrates on long repetition drill.
New language is first heard and extensively drilled before seeing the written for.
Another methodology is the Silent Wa.
The goal of the teacher here is to say as little as possible so that the learner can be in control of what he wants to sa.
This methodology uses colored rods, each color representing an aspect of English languag.
In Suggestopaedia method, the students need to be comfortable, confident and relaxed for the learner to be receptive to learnin.
Another method which is very effective to the young learners is Total Physical Response(TPR.
Combining the motion and learning enhances the learning proces.
One of the most effective and the most logical of all the methodologies for new teachers is called ESA ? Engage, Study, and Activat.
This method motivates the students, exposes them to the language and gives them an opportunity to use the languag.
It also gives the teacher a lot of flexibility in the classroo.
ESA is a three-staged methodology: the Engage phase, the Study phase, and the Activate phas.
The Engage phase has a purpose of getting the students talking and thinking in Englis.
The Study phase is where the actual teaching takes plac.
In the Activate phase, the students are encouraged to use any or all of the language they kno.
ESA lesson doesn?t have to be always in the same orde.
The order can be varied to give greater flexibilit.
The only rules are that the lesson should start with an Engage phase and finish with an Activate phas.
As a language teacher, I should not follow one definite metho.
I have to choose which technique and activities are suitable to the learner, and take into consideration the other factors that might have a great effect on the over-all teaching proces.
I have to motivate and help learners to become independent and inspired to learn mor.
