A positive relationship between the student and the target language is as important as the positive relationship between the student and the teacher. The positive learning environment is essential. The classes with my English teacher in primary school were boring. The situation improved in high school, but everything changed when I attended a summer school in Reading, UK. For the first time in my life I enjoyed my English classes; the teachers were so motivating, cheerful, interesting... everything I wanted. I wanted to be like them... I was fascinated by them... and at the age of 20, while still at University, I started working in a language school. I loved teaching so much, and yes, my teachers from UK were my role model! I have been teaching 21 years now and I always try to be entertaining, funny, interesting and motivating for my students. And yes, affective language teaching leads to successful language learning!
The way the teacher made students participate throughout the story and how she connected the story to students' reality in the end is fantastic. They probably got home that day and told their parents part of the story or tried to get dressed by themselves, just as the character had done in the book
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Storytelling is an art and the storyteller in the video has definitely done a great job telling Ellah Sarah gets dressed.
ReplyDeleteI like how she used one child's prediction of going outside in the middle of the story and how she listened to children's stories about how they get dressed. Using the apron was certainly magic.
One thing we have to take into account here is that she is telling the story to English speaking children in a kindergarten and this is a very different setting from having English language learners.
How do you think she would have told the same story differently?
Great pick, Damien! Thank you.
Thanks Juan. Maybe she would have spent more time pre-teaching vocab, grading the langauge in the story and doing choral chants with the children.
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