Sunday, November 2, 2008

The classroom story

In the story I could see the following strategies:

1. Teaching Language through content

2. Student-centered

3. The activity has meaning and purpose for learners

4. Social interaction

5. High expectations


One of my favorite strategy was the talk one . I think it is very effective because the teacher made the students think about possible strategies to be used in order to understand a reading about follow directions since there were 8 nonnative English speakers in the class. Each step had a picture , so the students gave the following strategies:


_Read each direction twice in order to not miss something important.

_Look the last picture since it shows you what you get at the end. For example, how a plane is supposed to look . The same thing we can do about reading the last couple paragraphs of a newspaper to see how the story comes out.

_Look the pictures and read the directions because the pictures tell something we need to know and the words give us more information about a topic.

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