Learning to Teach Better

I would like to comment on reading out loud and on guessing from the context tips. For the first one I would like to suggest my method. At first, me, the teacher read the text aloud so that students grasp the pronunciation. Then, I give time to students to read it silently in order to understand it and asnwer the clarification questions. In the end, I ask students to read it again aloud, play roles or change their voices in order to practice pronunciation too. This technique concerns younger students. As far as the guessing from the text is concerned, it is very amusing to let the students' imagination come in surface.

Since we are talking about L1 I would like to share my experince with you. I am a Greek teacher of English and when I used to teach grammar in my lessons, my students found very hard to undestand the causative form since it does not exist in their L1. So, in order to assist them understand the phenomenon I used examples of L1 otherwise almost no one could use the form. Thus, I believe that L1 in some cases in necessary.

Sorry for being soo late. Actually, I would like to share my experience with older classes. Of course for the young students it is amazing to use jazz songs and songs in general and that is the reason why I always teach the alphabet with a song, but also it is very very usuful with older students too. I made an experiment as I was not so sure if adults find childish to leran the alphabet through songs. So, in one group (A) I taught it with a song, whereas in the other (B) with cards mainly. The group A learnt it 4 times faster than the other group. Thus, I highly recommend songs!!!