Six of the best discuss this topic. Click on any of the author thumbnails to see their post:
Yitzha Sarwono |
Marco Brazil |
Nour Alkhalidy |
Steven Herder |
Naomi Epstein |
Vicky Loras |
Six of the best discuss this topic. Click on any of the author thumbnails to see their post:
Yitzha Sarwono |
Marco Brazil |
Nour Alkhalidy |
Steven Herder |
Naomi Epstein |
Vicky Loras |
Homework, by definition, is an assignment that a teacher gives students to do outside of class, but just how important is it? If you ask that question to most teachers, very likely their answers will include:
We all have heard, read, said and discussed these things, but the key issue is to make students see those benefits as well. How can we do that? By doing things like talking to them about it and doing learner-trainer activities to raise student awareness… Yes, that may help. However what I have found to be more important and effective is to make homework meaningful to the students. They have to see the point in doing it. It helps if we are able to come up with assignments that they find interesting, relevant and… (Dare I say it?) fun. That last bit seems to work especially well with teen students. I know we are talking – or are we? – utopia here. It’s not always possible to do so, but I try my best to do it as often as possible. Have the students choose the topic of the homework and give them the guidelines, language, and functions to work with. Find situations your students will actually face in which the language will be useful or that are part of their everyday lives — such as transcribing the dialogue between two characters in a game they play or their favorite TV show, or having them create such a dialogue. That’s fun. The important thing is that they do the homework with attention, that they do it without finding it a waste of time, and that it actually becomes a bridge, a continuum between classes.
Cecilia
Click on any of the author thumbnails to go see their answer to this difficult question:
Scott Thornbury |
Steven Herder |
Christina Markoulaki |
Vladdimira Michalkova |
Tamas Lorincz |
Cecilia Lemos |
Our live webinar on March 3rd was a great success. Thank you to all the participants. A recording of the three presentations is available on our website. itdi.pro/webinar.html.