The Importance Of Communication In The Classroom

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Junior high and high school is a place where students try to fit in. Students are trying to know themselves, they don't really know most of the time what is their identity. Sometimes they don't speak out their ideas because they are afraid of the opinions of their classmates or friends. It gets more difficult if they are trying to communicate in a second language.

I work with students learning English as a second language. For kids, it is difficult to communicate being afraid of mistakes and being the mock of the class. So, to make them interact and motivate them, I change the learning plan into a kind of communication class.

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Then, I have to know most of their interests and take them to teach English (grammar, writing, …show more content…

Normally speak in front of people make them nervous, they forget what to say, or they are building sentences very slow. So, when they have the time to practice before recording, they can improve by themselves, correct mistakes, hear their pronunciation, watch their attitude, get a better presentation and encourage self-learning.

They have to investigate vocabulary by their own, to search for ideas to write content, compare with other videos, watch tutorials… It is a kind of self-learning. Of course, as a teacher this comes up with a lot of work because even when they are working by themselves you are the guide; supporting, motivating and encouraging, remember them how skilled they are. Youngsters are so creative. In this way, the vocabulary they learn is about things they use every day, they learn phrases and they learn of course about the topic they are investigating.

Sometimes kids are very shy, so they don't speak in class or they do it almost with no volume. In a normal or traditional ESL class, kids develop language in a limited poor way. A good approach to make them speak is through this activity. They speak in a self-controlled environment, using a microphone, they choose settings, dialogs, and the topic. Of course one of my rubrics forced them to appear in 60% of the video, to make sure we work

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