Using Unusual Methods

Researchers of applied linguistics have stated that using unusual methods at teaching (for example humor and playful talk) can make a huge change in efficient learning. To prove this statement, a lot of investigators did theoretical and empirical researches.

Waring (2013) in her article made a test and analyzed the results. Her data came from the USA, where they observed female adult in an ESL (English as Second Language) program. They came from different countries; thus they have distinct cultural perception. The author found out that identity influences the pupils’ participations in ’playful talk’ in second language classes. In playful talk it is allowed to the students to change roles, to make jokes during the classes. She claims that it is better for the education to let the learners to lead the talk.

Butterfield made his research about language lounges and classroom turn-taking. According to him there are two types of

They based their research on a recent study that shows that using unusual methods in classrooms have a lot of positive aspects, thus they would like to prove these positive aspects in controlled writing. In their research 41 female learners participated. They studied a private school and they were 15-18 years old. They selected the learners into two groups: one of them took part in the participation, the other group continued to learn in the classic way, then they matched the results. The participants had to take a test after the research, and the results showed that using play in learning helps the pupils to acquire the language better. Their solution to the problem is similar to the others: they offered to use these new, unusual methods in teaching because in this way students will pay more attention to language learning. They also suggest to the book writers to put exercises in the books in order to make it more interesting to the