Articles tagged ‘Quiet Students’
Tips And Tricks For “Problem Students”, The Sequel
By Katie | December 28th, 2007 |
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Read Tips and Tricks for Problem Students - Part One first.
The student who won’t talk
This is a problem because most native speaker teachers are – at least to some extent – there to get students to use the language and specifically to speak. Many tasks and activities require students to speak and in [...]
Online Gambling As A TEFL Conversation Topic
By Katie | February 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I was working with a group of four higher-ups at one company, three of them members or heads of different boards, one of them…not a member of a board. Different people talk in different proportions all the time, and these people were all quite open and friendly and relaxed, not to mention well-educated and [...]
The Quiet Student (Or, Interview With A School Owner: Sue Of ELT Notebook)
By Katie | November 26th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Every teacher feels bad about it: that one student who just doesn’t fit in. No one talks to him, no one particularly wants to work with him. But as Sue of ELT Notebook found, the right question can work wonders.
Sue had been teaching a multi-lingual group in the UK, including one very quiet [...]
