Interaction in the classroom -Andrew Walkley

04/02/2017 - 10:28

Many strands of ELT emphasise the importance of interaction, responding to students language needs in the moment and creating language-rich classrooms. In this talk I argue that while these are valuable approaches in principle, in practice they demand a lot of the teacher and teacher education and development programmes may not address these problem. I will suggest some tasks for teachers to develop their language awareness on an ongoing basis.

Many strands of ELT emphasise the importance of interaction, responding to students language needs in the moment and creating language-rich classrooms. In this talk I argue that while these are valuable approaches in principle, in practice they demand a lot of the teacher and teacher education and development programmes may not address these problem. I will suggest some tasks for teachers to develop their language awareness on an ongoing basis.

Interaction in the classroom-Andrew Walkley