Surya jyoti shakya how to describe learning and teaching
1. This elements need to be present in a language
classroom to help students learn effectively.
Engage: this is the point in a teaching sequence where
teachers try to arouse the student’s interest, thus involving
their emotions. Activities and materials which frequently
engage students include:
Games
Music
Discussions
Stimulating pictures
Dramatic stories
Amusing anecdotes, etc.
When students are engaged, they learn better than when
they are partly or wholly disengaged.
Study: means any stage at which the construction of
language is the main focus. Study activities are those where
the students are asked to focus in on language and how it is
constructed.
Some typical areas for study might be:
The study and practice of the vowel sound in ship and
sheep
The study and practice of the third person singular of the
present simple
2. The study and practice of inviting patterns
The study and practice of the way we use pronouns in
written discourse
The study and practice of paragraph organization
The study of the rules for using make and do
Activated: this element describes exercises and activities
which are designed to get students using language as freely
and communicatively as they can.
Some examples are:
Role- plays
Advertisement design
Debates and discussions
Describe and draw
Story and poem writing
Writing in groups, etc.
These ESA elements need to be present in most lessons or
teaching sequences.
ESA Straight Arrows sequence
3. Three different lesson sequences which contain the
ESA elements:
Boomerang lessons: The diagram for boomerang lessons
represents this procedure in the following way.
In this sequence the teacher is answering the needs of the
students.
Patchwork lessons: many lessons are a mixture of
procedures and mini-procedures, a variety of short episodes
building up to a whole.
EAASASEA (etc.) Patchwork sequence
Straight arrow lessons: This consists of the teacher
following the sequence Engage, Study and Activate. This is
4. the best format for the teacher who knows the students
needs. Allowing the teacher to take the students to a logical
point where they can use the language.
In more recent times, there have been five teaching models
which have had a strong influence on classroom practice
and which teachers and trainers still refer to.
Grammar translation
Audio-lingualism
PPT
Task-Based Learning
Communicative Language Teaching