TEACHING ENGLISH AS AFOREIGN ADIELI LAOLI, M.Pd PRINCIPLES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY 1. Focus on the learner There are to dimensions to this learner involvement. First, the involvement of learnes in making decisions about what to learn, how to learn, and how to be evaluated. Second, is in maximizing the class time in which the learners, rather than the teacher, do the work. 2. Develop your own personal methodology Related observation is that just as learners have their own learning styles, so teachers have their own teaching styles. 3. Build instructional sequences based on a pretask, task, and follow-up cycle Pretasks Task, Follow-up cycle CLASSROOM TECHNIQUE AND TASK Micro-listening The following are some ways of modifying listening tasks to add or increase listening for specifics. Bits and pieces What do I want to know? Dictation and cloze Here are some other ways to add gist listening. Main ideas Write the main idea for the recording on the board, along with three or four distracters. What is the order? When the listening text is a story, list five or six events from the story. Which picture? If pictures are available (e.g., one from the particular listening page of your textbook and distracters from elsewhere in the book) students can listen and identify the one that goes with what they are hearing. THANK YOU
