Motivating Children

Motivating Children: Going beyond Bribery    

How to Motivate Children to Want to Learn English

Shelley Vernon


I'm sure you've all been there.  You're standing in front of a class of glassy-eyed children, or, even worse, a class of students who are just plain ignoring you.  How can you motivate the children and get them back "into" your class?  One sure-fire way to get your students to be motivated is to offer then small prizes or treats to do the task at hand.  Oh yes!  You will have a class full of highly motivated, participating children.  They might even learn something from the activity.  However, by giving the children prizes and treats to motivate them you'll end up with an empty pocketbook and a class full of students who are only motivated for the material prize, not because they want to learn (which means they probably aren't getting much out of the activity in the first place).  There are many other ways to motivate your students and you won't have to keep a stash of "prizes" in your classroom to do it.

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Spelling: Common Words that Sound Alike

Spelling: Common Words that Sound Alike


Summary: This resource covers common spelling errors including accept/except, ei/ie, noun plurals, and –ible/able.

Contributors:Purdue OWL

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Global English and the teaching of pronunciation

Global English and the teaching of pronunciation

TE Editor

The emergence of so many different kinds (or 'varieties') of international English has caused a number of linguists to question the use of native speaker pronunciation models in the teaching of English. This article presents my research into the pronunciation of global English and gives some teaching implications.

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Listening for young learners

Listening for young learners

TE Editor

In this article I will briefly focus on how I try to develop listening skills with our young learners who are learning English as an additional language. I will identify a number of learning theories, together with a list of considerations and cautions with some insights that I have gained from trying to make listening in my classroom more comprehensible.

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Teaching Lexical Phrases

Teaching Lexical Phrases

by Thomas Lavelle

The question I am taking up this week is: " How can I teach Lexical Phrases?

First, what is lexis? Very briefly, lexis is a word in all its various relationships with other words.  Lexical phrases, (first mentioned in 1975 by Becker) according to Nattinger and Decarrico (1992), are multi-word chunks of language of varying length that run on a continuum from fixed phrases like in a nutshell to slot- and- filler frames like  the _____er, the _________er.

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Group discussion skills

Group discussion skills

Submitted by TE Editor on 27 July, 2010 - 19:57

Group discussions occur in many different formats – from very informal ones between friends to highly structured and challenging discussions included as part of a selection process. In both cases, there are a number of specific skills that we can help our students develop to become better able to contribute effectively to group discussions.

  • Why teach group discussion skills?
  • Types of discussion
  • Useful sub-skills for students
  • Setting up group discussions
  • Giving and encouraging feedback
  • Conclusion
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Classroom language when doing listening

Useful classroom language for teachers for doing listening

 

Useful vocabulary for/ about doing listening

Parts of the equipment

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Classroom language when using the board

Classroom language when using the board

Useful classroom language for teachers while using the board

When you are using the board is a critical time to make sure you use lots of interesting and relevant language, as the students are often passive while the teacher is writing on the board and the teacher has their back to the class and so can't make eye contact with the students to get their attention and check that they are understanding. The fact you are doing something and speaking about it also means that students can understand what you are saying from the context and so should learn the language you are using by watching and listening

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Preparing to teach your first EFL exam class

Preparing to teach your first EFL exam class

Classes in preparation for EFL exams like TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, FCE, CAE, CPE, PET, KET, BULATS, or BEC can be very motivating for both teachers and students. EFL exams is also an endlessly growing market that you will want to show you can teach for on your CV as soon as possible. Many teachers find the prospect of stepping into their first class daunting and/ or find the school unwilling to trust a teacher with no exam experience, however. Whilst at the top of the profession there is no substitute for being a qualified examiner or teaching one type of exam class for thousands of classroom hours, there are plenty of ways to make sure you are ready before your first class and so really give yourself the edge over others who have never taught for that exam before.

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Creating a quality language test

Creating a quality language test

What are the characteristics of a good language test? A good test should have a positive effect on learning, and teaching should result in improved learning habits. Such a test will aim at locating the specific and precise areas of difficulties experienced by the class or the individual student so that assistance in the form of additional practice and corrective exercises can be given. 

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Change management process and model

Change Management Learning Center
Sponsored by Prosci

 

Change management process and model

 

 

  


Prosci's change management methodology is based on research with over 1600 participants over the last ten years. What is unique about the methodology is that it comes from real project leaders and teams reflecting on what worked, what did not and what they would do differently on their next projects.

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 ENGLISH TEACHING METHODS


Preface

In this paper there is a description of the basic principles and procedures of the most recognized methods for teaching a second or foreign language.

These methods are:

- Grammar-Translation Approach
- Direct Approach
- Reading Approach
- Audio-lingual Method
- Community Language Learning Method
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The Silent Way Method
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Communicative Approach; Functional-Notional 
- Total Physical Response Method-

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طرح تحقيقاتي آموزش از دور

طرح تحقيقاتي آموزش از راه دور

The Distance Education Research Project

مترجمان: سيد ضياء موسوي مجاب.محمد رضا مهدوی

زمستان - 1384

 

 

 

قالب بندي چارچوب استانداردهاي کيفي آموزش از راه دور

( The Format of the Distance Education Quality Standards Framework)

Ricky W. Telg

 

 

1 . برنامه ريزي و سياستگزاري - Policy and Planning

2 . يادگيرندگان - Learners

3 . تدوين و توسعه برنامه - Program Development

4 . طرح درس - Course Design

5 . مواد درسي - Course Materials

6. پشتيباني و خدمات رساني به يادگيرنده - Learner Support

7 . ارزشيابي يادگيرنده - Learner Assessment

8 . راهبرد منابع انساني - Human Resource Strategy

9 . اداره و مديريت - Management and Administration

10. همکاريهاي سازماني - Collaboration Between Organizations

11. تضمين کيفيت - Quality Assurance

12. اطلاعات و بازاريابي - Information and Marketing

13. نتايج - Results

 

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