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I learned from this unit the importance of pre-teaching, or anticipating problems with grammar or vocabulary before they arise. For example, if a student is having difficulty with a listening exercise, I understand that it will be important for me to highlight key vocabulary or concepts that the students should look out for before playing a cassette. It will keep the students engaged and wanting to listen closely. I also learned the importance of having 'warmer' exercises to begin each lesson with in order to ease students into speaking and listening. In my foreign language experience, the more time that passes without students talking, the more difficult it will be later on to elicit participation, i.e., when a professor launches into a long lecture to begin class. I always found chalkboard exercises where we write/correct sentences as a class (each person fills in the correct grammar in a gap fill exercise on board) to be the most effective for my learning. It is highly interactive and everyone participates. It is even effective in pairs so that students collaborate. For example, the class completes worksheets in a Study phase while I write sentences that need correcting on the board. Then in the Activate phase, students join in pairs to figure out the mistake and offer a correction. Overall, this course has been really useful as a reflection onto my experience as a student and what I found most effective from my language teachers. These techniques are what I wish to emulate as a TEFL teacher too!
