Some basic principles of teaching language

5. Show your reactions to what students say.

Your reactions to what students say must be natural.

• T : So, have you seen the film ‘life is beautiful’ ?
• Ali: Yes, but only on television.
• T : And what about you, Can?
• Can: No, I don’t like dramas.
• T : Oh, don’t you? Have you seen it, Ayşe ?
• Ayşe : Yes, I have. – 18 times.
• T : Yes, and what about you,… ?

• 6. Students need practice, not you.
• Teachers should avoid doing the following:
• 1. Explaining when it is not necessary
• 2. Repeating themselves unnecessarily.
• 3. Answering for students, without waiting for long

• 4 Correcting too much and too quickly.
• 5. Talking unnecessarily about the process of the lesson
• Teacher talk should be minimazed in most cases.

• 7. Don’t emphasize difficulties .
• Teachers should avoid making the subject seem more difficult.
• English is a very difficult language.
• English is full of many irregularities
• There are no real rules.
• Preposition are completely illogical
• Phrasal verbs are difficult to memorize.

• 8. Vary what you do, and how you do it.
• Teachers should avoid doing the things in a monotonous manner. ( always in the same way and order , with the same material, ..etc)

• 9. Select what you do and how you do it.
• There may be no opportunity to choose the course material and to determine the syllabus.
• However, there are things that the teacher could decide on.

• 10. Activities and relationships in the classroom change.
• Forms of intearaction in the class change

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