Erica & Yuni, Part II

Part II

Listening: Carefully consider the form of listener’s responses

In order to understand how much students know and comprehend, you must look at external cues such as doing, choosing, transferring, answering, condensing, extending, duplicating, modeling, and conversing. Different responses can be observed depending on the level of students, but in a current classroom setting answering seems to be the most frequently used way to check students’ comprehension. In the case of modeling, you need to try to induce students’ creativity rather than having them repeat the model.

Listening & Speaking: use techniques that are intrinsically motivating

Try to select the topics or activities related to personal interests and goals to increase students’ intrinsic motivation. For example, teachers can choose the topic relevant to “asking for a date” for young adults to increase their level of interest, but need to be cautious about sensitive topics. When you have multiple people with different interests, you can choose one topic for one day and another for the next day so that everyone can get interested in classroom topics.