Monday, November 26, 2012

Relating ESL content to any classroom setting

Now that this class is almost competed I have been thinking about how i can incorporate the methods we have learned into my future classroom. Although I may never teach a class full of ESL students many of the things from this class can be used even with students that speak ESL as their first language. This class has forced me to see that learning as well as teaching english is very difficult and take a long time. In a classroom even with students who speak english there will be difficulties when teaching students things such as grammar. I think a lot of the activities that are used in ESL classrooms to teach grammar can also be used in regular classrooms. For example many of the peer editing techniques not only help ESL students practice their grammar but also teach any students to be careful with the grammar they use in their writing. Also this class has shown me how to use a variety of techniques when teaching a subject because ESL students may struggle to understand. I have been seeing in my TE 401 placement that not only ESL students need to be taught in a variety of methods but every student does. These students need to be read instructions, then shown instructions on the overhead, and normally need things repeated numerous times before they fully understand or follow directions.  Even if I don't become an ESL teacher I think the teaching methods I have learned from this class will be helpful in any classroom setting.

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