Creating Effective Language Lessons

Creating Effective Language Lessons

1. Examing an effective language lesson

   • 1. Your lesson reflects high professional standards
     • Deep knowledge and ownership of the topic
   • 2. Your lesson reflects sound principles of language teaching.
     • It shoukld be based on your personal style or what the institution stablishes.
   • 3. Your lesson addresses meaningful learning outcomes.
     • Every lesson you present sets out to teach something, that is, to achieve one or more learning outcomes
   • 4. Your lesson provides opportunities for your learners to take part in extended practice with using language in a meaningful way
   • 5. Your lesson is effectively managed
     • The term classroom management refers to ways in which you arrange both the physical and the social dimensions 8  Creating Effective Language Lessons of the class in order to provide a supportive environment for teaching and learning (Wright 2005)
   • 6. Your lesson is a coherent sequence of learning activities that link together to form a whole.
   • 7. Your lesson creates a motivation to learn and provides opportunities for success.
   • 8. The lesson reflects your personal philosophy of teaching.
     • . These might include: J Make learning fun. J Make learning relaxing. J Make learning personal

2. Creating a positive learning environment

   • 1. Create a positive classroom climate
   • 2. Arrange your class to promote effective learning
     • to organize
       • individual - pair -group
   • 3. Find ways of managing your use of class time.
   • 4. Maintain appropriate behavior in your classes.
   • 5. Create a culturally sensitive classroom.

3. Developing learner-centered teaching

4. Planning and reviewing your lessons