Have you ever thought how a good class is like? English language teaching requires three aspects to consider in order to create a good class. Those three aspects are not the only ones, but they are centered basically on the teacher’s role. The teacher, as the immediate facilitator, requires paying attention to some proper attitudes and aptitudes to take into consideration in order to create advisable and advantageous classes. Teaching English as a second language includes aspects like promoting an effective communication among teacher and students, using creative and authentic material, and applying dynamic activities help to create good classes.
Promoting an effective communication among the teacher and students and among themselves is the first attitude that creates a good class. Teaching involves the use of social interaction that involves communicating ideas, feelings, and emotions. Communication builds everything. When learners feel comfortable, they express their ideas better and more understably. In addition, it will be easier for the teacher to give them feedback and viceversa. So, effective communication is the first step that creates a good and easier way to learn a new language.
Using creative and authentic material is another aspect that a teacher needs to pay attention when teaching a foreign language. This kind of material helps students understand the topic better that they have seen in class; furthermore, it needs to be according to students’ personality. Those can be auditory, visual, or kinesthetic. Because there are a variety of types of students, the teacher can identify those types in the students. So, the use of creative material offers many benefits throughout the learning process.
Applying dynamic activities help learners to practice actively in the development of the language. Because sometimes even good teachers use the same type of activities each class, they give boring and stressful classes. Creating creative and dynamic activities promote the learners’ effective participation. If the teacher knows how to balance those activities, second language learners will find the most effective way to learn. So, the use of effective and creative dynamics helps to support the knowledge that was received in class.
Although teaching is an activity that requires being in front of a class, aspects as good communication, creative material, and dynamic activities help to develop good classes. Those three give many benefits and advantages that implement a pleasant and friendly environment in the classroom. Consequently, students will have a better and progressive development in the use of the language. Even though the teacher sponsors those aspects, students decide how much useful those are. So, effective communication, appropriate material, and engaging activities should be focused on creating interesting, creative, and dynamic classes when teaching English as a second language.
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ResponderEliminar"Promoting an effective communication among the teacher and students and among themselves is the first attitude that creates a good class" by the writer: Nelva Villalvazo. The writer is right, I agree totally with her. It is essential, but I stopped to think beyond of getting an effective communication among student and teachers. I wonder what happen when the teacher as the head of this relationship is living some bad life situations and is damaging students emotionally. It usually happens at schools and some students are involved in family problems and the bad influence of the teacher. I think that there must be some psychological teachers’ tests periodically in order to get a balance as the writer Nelva propose.
The use of authentic and creative material is an excellent approach. But it is basically focused for private schools because it is necessary to identify what kind of intelligence is the student; auditory, visual, or kinesthetic, and public schools do not have sufficient budget for those studies.
In my opinion, in order for getting all those ambitious and attractive teaching aspects, the first step, is to keep a good relationship among teachers and student´s family, because they are the roots of students behavior.
Thanks Adriana for your comments. Maybe I need to be more specific when I am writing because of the part you wrote about the differences between public and private schools. But I think if you really like giving classes you do not pay too much attention if you have a good budget in order to apply some studies to students. Those characteristics can be very recognizable if you pay attention on students’ attitudes. In the part you suggested to me the possibility that the first step is keeping a good relationship among teacher and students’ family. It could be a possibility if they are kids. If students are adults or even teenagers, it could be difficult for the teacher and students’ family establish a good communication but it is also a good idea. And also your comment about teachers’ problems I think that one of the professional attitude of a teacher is forgetting all personal problems because students are not to blame about teacher’s problems. But also, I recognize that this problem sometimes happens.
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