Reflection 3

Reflection 3

Personally, I favor communicative language teaching when you work with grammar. First of all, in my experience students think it`s fun to use language in an authentic way to interact with their fellow students to complete task. They get to use the language in an authentic way, which means that they get to practice the with the knowledge they already like they would in the real world. Communicative language teaching is great for learning heavier content like grammar, and I think this is a better way to learn about this topic than traditional grammar drills. Communicative language practice also allows you to  let the students work inductively, which I think more interesting for students. This can be achieved by starting the lesson and not saying which specific grammar of aspect that the students will work on, they might get have a task based on giving advice an afterwards realise that they have also practiced using modal verbs.

I also like the fact that CLT is mainly based on communicative activities where the students interact with one another. I think this can be very motivating because I students get more easily tired when they have to, in many classes, only listen to the teacher. I`d also like for the students to work with bigger projects, where they can have some choice with regards to which topics they want to explore. This can be achieved through e.g creating a class magazine. Not every student loves writing but by creating a magazine every student can contribute in some way

Reflection 2

Reflection 2

I remember that we did a lot of text reading, but we also did a lot of teacher-centered mechanical grammar drilling (audiolingual method). I personally thought this was a very uninspiring way if working with grammar. I liked when we were allowed to work on bigger projects, like choosing a topic getting to present it to the rest of the class. I  

I wish I had communicative language teaching when I went to school. Communicative language teaching, is a type of teaching where one encourages students to communicate with one another in an authentic way by doing different tasks. I don't think I was ever exposed to it, because I mostly remember my English lessons to be mostly teacher-centered. At school, we also had the typical glossary tests, where the teacher would choose some words we were supposed to learn each week. Personally, I found this a bit meaningless and mechanical, because we didn't learn to use the words in the right context anyway, we simply memorized them The glossary tests were common from primary school and through high school. I also don`t remember being given clear learning objectives, and I rarely received formative evaluations from my English teachers. I thought this was annoying because texts can become so much better when you can submit draft papers before the final grade. So, formative evaluation is definitely something I will try to give my future students so they get a chance to improve their English texts.