I started to think about TTT during my lesson. What types of students' turn taking I'm using?
Constructive or obstructive?
How can I answer student questions to avoid direct answers.
Am I interrupt students' dialogue or chances to speak?
Right! Let's use scaffolding, this is right!
I usually corrected their errors as much as I can, sometime I feel like that I am a Human English dictionary.
My elementary students are usually asking me meanings of words, they don't know exactly how to use a dictionary, even they can't memorize the meanings of the words. Explain again.
This type of CI makes students very boring and no attention from students. I can play a game all the time to make class interesting.
This is my dilemma in my class.
Hmm. Can you think of other ways to help students discover meanings of words? Sounds like maybe too much error correction is demotivating students a little, and preventing them from interacting/using the words they are learning?
ReplyDeleteThis is the most general way to teach. I got some idea from last class, how do I explain an octopus without direct translating of the language. I am thinking about the bottle activity and Connie's card game to apply vocabulary game.
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