I am going to talk about content based instruction, and I think it is really important to know that students need to be interested in what they are going to do or what they are going to read. In this way, it will be easier for them to learn a new language. There are lots of activities we can work with students in this approach. We can find reading, listening, writing and speaking activities that can help us to develop a class, but we have to take into account that the first purpose of this approach is to teach students about a specific content, and the second purpose is to teach them the new language. Students need to be engaged in all the activities because they are who want and need to learn.
Teacher’s roll is really hard because they have to provide all the material to students, and he also has to be the one who knows about the topic and the target language. Let´s imagine that students are interested in science fiction; we have to investigate about this topic even if we really hate it, and give students all the material needed.
The task-based instruction is really interesting because we have to look for different activities that can be assigned, and students have to be very active in the class. There are some students who don’t like to be doing the same activities in all the classes, so we have to change from activity to activity and make them to participate. There are also some students who don’t like to do activities maybe because they are shy. In this case, teachers have a hard job, because they have to help those kinds of students in order to engage them in all the activities.
Then we have the approach in which student’s voice is record and I think it is really useful, because students are correcting their mistakes themselves when they listen their voice through a record. I think that students can improve their language when they have the idea that they are being recorded. They try to pronounce in the correct way. Some other students can get nervous and it will be very difficult for them to do their best in their class or any other presentation.
YOu have stated a very important fact in the teaching field and it is to design activities that sometimes are not quite interesting for us or require a lot of research. What a teacher basically looks for is to bring cool topics for the students to deepen into new areas.
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IN order to relax your students, you can start by recording their conversations later you will video tape them. In this way you will eventually get them involved in this self evaluating activity.