Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Second Edition

The key questions
In considering these lessons there are at least five important
questions that anyone who aspires to be at all professional
about teaching English as a foreign language needs to ask.
Each question implies a whole series of other questions and
they might be something like these:
1 What is the nature of the social interaction that is taking
place?
What is the general social atmosphere of the class? What is
the relationship between the pupils and the teacher? between
pupil and pupil? Is the interaction teacher-dominated? Is the
teacher teaching the whole class together as one, with the
pupils’ heads up, looking at the teacher? Does he ask all the
questions and initiate all the activity? Or are the pupils being
taught in groups? How big are the groups? How many of
them are there? Are they mixed ability groups or same ability
groups? Are all groups doing exactly the same work, or
different work? Or, are pupils working in isolation, each on
his own, with head down looking at his books?